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The 2014 version of ARES Commander Edition, celebrates Graebert’s 30 years of innovation and expertise of CAD. More than just a high-productivity and cost-effective alternative to AutoCAD, Graebert’s CAD technologies are used by nearly 5 million of professionals in more than 100 countries and ARES Commander Edition is the third generation of our CAD software formerly known as FelixCAD and PowerCAD. 1 00:00:09,940 –> 00:00:17,140 ARES Commander Edition 2014 introduces layer and entity transparency. 2 00:00:17,600 –> 00:00:20,600 Let’s add transparency to this Cross-Hatch. 3 00:00:20,800 –> 00:00:24,700 For that, the first option is to go the Layer Manager. 4 00:00:25,400 –> 00:00:27,400 Search for the layer of this entity 5 00:00:27,980 –> 00:00:30,480 and change the transparency factor. 6 00:00:30,800 –> 00:00:33,300 We select this layer 7 00:00:34,600 –> 00:00:37,100 and enter the transparency factor … 8 00:00:39,900 –> 00:00:40,800 …here. 9 00:00:41,600 –> 00:00:43,600 Let’s enter 40%. 10

Saving special files with a .dws extension 1 00:00:08,760 –> 00:00:15,40 ARES Commander Edition 2014 now supports Drawing Standards. 2 00:00:15,40 –> 00:00:21,820 You can now save special files with a .dws extension, which contain your Drawing Standards. 3 00:00:22,100 –> 00:00:26,980 This file is used to define all the common conventions, or standards, 4 00:00:27,120 –> 00:00:30,880 that need to be maintained and checked in your drawings. 5 00:00:31,140 –> 00:00:33,000 Let’s have a closer look. 6 00:00:33,160 –> 00:00:37,239 We open a drawing and link it to a Drawing Standard file 7 00:00:37,560 –> 00:00:43,580 that will be used as a reference to check if our drawing violates any of our standards. 8 00:00:43,780 –> 00:00:48,480 If so, we’ll be able to fix any violation that’s found in our drawing. 9 00:00:48,840 –> 00:00:54,700 The Drawing Standard file has been used to define standard values for LAYERS, Dimension Styles,

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.