Tips & Tricks

Working with Design Resources palette 1 00:00:08,740 –> 00:00:16,240 ARES Commander Edition 2014 introduces a new Design Resources palette. 2 00:00:16,239 –> 00:00:20,439 You can activate this new palette by pressing Control and 2. 3 00:00:20,440 –> 00:00:24,980 You may also activate it by entering DESIGNRESOURCES in the command line. 4 00:00:25,220 –> 00:00:28,680 Or from the Insert Tab, using this icon. 5 00:00:28,680 –> 00:00:32,420 The palette helps you to browse for content in your projects. 6 00:00:32,619 –> 00:00:38,939 The elements you find here from your computer or network can easily be reused in the current drawing. 7 00:00:39,260 –> 00:00:43,940 For example, we can access the blocks of a file. 8 00:00:45,600 –> 00:00:50,880 But we can also find: Dimension Styles, Layers, Line-types, 9 00:00:51,280 –> 00:00:53,600 attached external references, 10 00:00:54,180 –> 00:00:59,320 sheets created in paper space, Table Styles and Text Styles. 11 00:00:59,600 –> 00:01:04,879

In this video, we will show you how to organize your work environment with multiple and dynamic views of the same drawing under different angles and zoom factors: the viewports. 1 00:00:08,820 –> 00:00:14,600 In ARES Commander Edition 2014 you can organize your work space 2 00:00:15,140 –> 00:00:20,820 with multiple views of your model, from different angles, to get a global vision of your work. 3 00:00:20,820 –> 00:00:26,000 For this purpose you use the View tab. 4 00:00:26,340 –> 00:00:31,660 And from the Viewport menu, choose how to divide model space. 5 00:00:31,900 –> 00:00:34,460 I can choose to see only one viewport, 6 00:00:34,940 –> 00:00:37,300 or vary between the options offered here. 7 00:00:37,760 –> 00:00:42,699 This allows us, in a very simple way, to divide the screen into several views. 8 00:00:43,120 –> 00:00:46,940 If I click here, I can change the point of view.