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The Graebert Annual Meeting takes place in Berlin on October 18th and 19th, 2017. Follow #Graebert17 on twitter & Stay tuned for latest CAD trends for desktop, mobile, and cloud. Experience How Desktop, Mobile, and Cloud Can Converge Into a Unique CAD Ecosystem In the meeting, you will find CAD experts from all over the World for a highly productive event combining one day for keynotes, testimonies and product news followed by another extra day to dig further in private meetings. Can’t join us? No problem. Follow #Graebert17 for live updates about key announcements. © axica / Nicole Fortin This year we are thrilled to organize our keynotes in the Plenum of the AXICA conference center. Designed by the famous architect Frank Gehry it is also very close to the Brandenburg gate, one of the best-known landmarks of Germany. Follow #Graebert17 on twitter for updates. Learn more about the event: https://www.graebert.com/graebert17/
Version 1.69 of ARES Kudo was shipped today ARES Commander subscribers in Americas, Europe, Middle-East, Africa and Oceania have all access now to ARES Kudo view and share features. The deployment will continue in Asia over the coming months. Meanwhile, Graebert released today the version 1.69 with immediate availability on kudo.graebert.com. ARES Kudo is cloud-based, it runs directly in your Internet browser. Let’s take a look at the new features… Properties palette in view-only mode Properties Palette in ARES Kudo View-Only Mode While viewing files in ARES Kudo, you will now see on the right a properties palette. You can select entities and this palette will show relevant information. Properties include information about the layer and basically all that you find usually in the properties palette in DWG-based CAD software. In viewing mode, you cannot use the properties palette to edit such parameters. Beta testers of ARES Kudo have already
ARES® Map™ – bringing together the intelligence of GIS and A CAD system. Maps and floor plans created with ARES Map are saved natively in dwg but contain also smart GIS-enabled information associated with the entities. ARES Map is powered by ArcGIS® Online from Esri, the world leader for GIS technologies and also based on ARES Commander™, Graebert’s popular dwg-based CAD platform trusted by millions of professionals. The perfect CAD solution for GIS users A full DWG-based CAD software to create or modify any CAD drawing Unique tools to edit and convert CAD information into GIS-enabled entities Edit and synchronize your feature services with ArcGIS Online Add GIS intelligence to your CAD drawings Choose a coordinate system from hundreds of projected, geometric or vertical ones Work with map services and feature services from Esri servers or your own ArcGIS Online content Display and modify your GIS content directly from ARES
More XtraTools™ Commands More power features to help you solve tedious tasks – Now also on Mac and Linux Take a look at the XtraTools menu or ribbon tab and you will discover many new features to manage layouts viewports, import/export dimension styles, create nice text labels, scale blocks, define draw order by color, and more. ARES Commander significantly increases the number of tools in the XtraTools tab. The same features are now also available for Mac and Linux. For your reference, this was the XtraTools tab in the previous version of ARES Commander. The number of tools is significantly higher if you compare with the new XtraTools tab. Using the command “Viewport Scale Ratio“ Let’s have a look, when we set up a sheet in PAPER SPACE and create the viewports, we might forget the scale of that view. With XtraTools and the command “Viewport Scale Ratio“, ARES Commander will
Dynamic Print Preview The Print settings dialog has been redesigned to improve productivity Enjoy a reorganized dialog for Print settings with a dynamic preview representing your drawing as it would be printed. You no longer need to switch between settings and preview to adjust your print configuration. ARES Commander has a new print dialog box. It has been redesigned to have a preview – in real time – of what we are going to print. Here, we see how it will be printed. In this dialog we find all the necessary parameters to configure our printing correctly. Options with Dynamic Print Preview We can choose the printer, the number of copies, and even the paper size, and of course, we can rotate it. We can also configure the scale among other parameters. Any changes that we make in this box, we can apply directly to our tab in paper space.
Advanced Block Attributes Editing New dialog for advanced editing of block attributes and properties Select one or more block insertions and use this new dialog to edit one or more attributes but also block properties such as a layer, line style, color, text style and more. ARES Commander offers a new dialog that allows to quickly change the attributes of a block. Not only the information that contains the attribute but also some of its properties. In this example (Video), we will modify the name and after pressing APPLY we see the change. Block with attributes properties We can also vary the height of the text, its color, and any other properties we see here. In this example, there are some labels that we will modify. Because it is a block with attributes, you can insert it again or copy an existing one. The new dialog of ARES Commander makes it
Split Dimension Lines Split Dimension lines and extension lines to avoid any overlap Improve the readability of your annotations, when a dimension line or an extension line is overlapping another entity the command, SPLITDIMENSION will help you split them with a default or manual distance without breaking the associativity. ARES Commander offers us a new tool called SPLIT DIMENSION. It allows us to solve the meetings and crossings of lines and extensions for dimensions and leaders. Working with Split Dimension Let’s see how it works. In the ANNOTATE tab find the SPLIT DIMENSION command. Select the dimension and press ENTER. As we can see, ARES commander automatically resolves the crossings to prevent the dimension lines from passing over the drawing. Let’s try this example. Select the command SPLIT DIMENSION, select the arrow of the leader and press ENTER. As you can see, it appears clearly separated. By pressing ENTER we accepted
Pattern Along Any Path Copy entities along a path defined by another entity Array multiple copies of a chosen entity along a line, polyline, arc, circle, ellipse or spline. Different options let you define the distance and a total number of insertions but also how to align each insertion with the chosen path. ARES Commander now lets you copy entities along a path. Here (watch video), we have a rectangle and an arc. Using the PATTERN command, we can now choose the new function “PATH”, where we select the entity and the path. Press OK. We can see how the rectangle has been copied along with the arc. We can control how the elements will be copied along with the path. How to copy elements along any path For example, we can divide the path for a given amount of entities. As an example, I make 15 copies We can also determine
Insert Center Lines Insert Centerlines between pairs of lines, concentric arc and polyline segments Very popular for Mechanical design but also very helpful in other situations, the CENTERLINE command will draw a line at equidistance of the pair of entities you selected. The CENTER line style will be assigned by default and you can fine tune the extension of the Centerline. ARES Commander gives us the ability to quickly create a center line. We can choose 2 lines and ARES Commander draws a line that passes through its center. After selecting them we can know the properties of these lines, and determine a specific value of distance that will extend beyond the reference entities. Working with CENTERLINES In this case, we are going to relocate the center lines to match the sides of these tubes. Then we activate the possibility to set to a custom distance, choosing “YES” and typing a
Advanced PDF to DWG conversion New features allow us to recover more information from the PDF Besides converting or batch-processing your PDF files into DWG files, ARES Commander offers now the option to recover the layers organization and names but also to maintain the LineStyle and LineWeight of entities. Recovering layers from a PDF file PDF is a very popular file format to share drawings. However, PDF cannot be modified. In ARES Commander you can use PDF Import to convert the PDF file to DWG entities. Now you can go even further and recover the layer structure from the PDF file. We can import the PDF and make all the entities that appear in the drawing grouped by color or group them according to the original layers. Grouping entities in a drawing Let’s see how it works, from the INSERT tab, choose PDF IMPORT. Select the desired file, choose one or
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