What’s New in ARES Commander 2016
Graebert has introduced its latest ARES Commander native DWG based 2/3D CAD system for Mac, Windows and Linux computer platforms this week from its Annual event in Berlin. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. Architosh is present in Germany this week for the event.
Further details of Graebert news coming out of the Annual Event will be published in short order, for now these are the pertinent highlights for what is new in ARES Commander 2016.
Update: Graebert has also announced plans to bring ARES Touch to Apple’s iOS platform as well as further develop and release a fully cloud-based ARES DWG-based CAD system largely utilizing core technology that the company has integrated into partner Onshape.
01 – Graebert’s new ARES 2016 announcements include many new items, including cloud, mobile, iOS and more.
Look forward to more Graebert Annual Event coverage soon.
New Commands:
- DrawingTabs — Shows drawing tabs at the top of the drawing window area
- HidDrawingTabs — Hides drawin tabs at the top of the drawing window area
- LayerState — Saves, restores, and manages configurations of layer properties and states
- HideEntities — Hides selected entities
- IsolateEntities — Isolates selected entities by hiding all other entities
- UnisolateEntities — Shows entities that were hidden with the IsolateEntities or HideEntities commands
- SelectMatching — Selects drawing entities of the same type and with shared properties for subsequent commands
- New commands for Annotation Scaling:
- AnnEntityScale — Adds and removes annotation scales for specified annotative entities (dialog box variant)
- AnnEntityScale — Adds and removes annotation scales for specified annotative entities (command window variant)
- AnnEntityScaleAdd — Updates annotative entities to support the drawing’s active annotation scale
- AnnEntityScaleRemove — Updates annotative entities to remove the drawing’s active annotation scale from the entities’ annotation scales
- AnnReset — Resets all scale representations of specified annotative entities to their original positions
- AnnUpdate — Updates existing annotative entities to match updated TextStyle or DimensionStyle settings
New Features:
- Quick Input — Provides a command entry interface near the pointer (with tooltips, input boxes, and construction lines)
- Properties palette — Supports collapsing and expanding of property groups
- Multiline BlockAttributes are supported by the MakeBlockAttribute, EditBlockAttribute, and EditAnnotation commands. The Multiline BlockAttribute Formatting pop-up toolbar helps you edit and format multiline BlockAttributes
- Heads-up toolbar — Appears when you select entities and lets you zoom to the selected entities, change the entities Layer, LineStyle, and LineWidth, dimension entities, or create a Block from the entities
- Dimension location snap: Forces dimension lines to be placed at specified distances from measured linear entities and between successive dimension lines or at specified angles for radial and diameter dimensions
New System Variables:
- ATTIPE — Determines the type of pop-up toolbar to display when editing multiline BlockAttributes in place
- ATTMULTI — Controls whether you can create multiline BlockAttributes with the commands to define BlockAttribute
- FILETABPREVIEW — Determines the preview type when you hover over a drawing tab
- FILETABSTATE — Controls the display of drawing tabs at the top of the drawing windows area.
- SELECTSIMILARMODE — Determines which properties must match for an entity of the same type to be selected with the SelectMatching command
- New system variables for Annotation Scaling:
- ANNOALLVISIBLE — Shows or hides annotative entities that do not support the current annotation scale
- ANNOAUTOSCALE — Controls if setting a new annotation scale are added automatically to annotative entities
- ANNOTATIVE DWG — Determines whether the current drawing will act as annotative Block when inserted into another drawing
- CANNOSCALE — Specifies the name of the current annotation scale for the active workspace (Model, or Viewports on layout Sheets)
- CANNOSCALEVALUE — Specifies the value of the current annotation scale for the active workspace (Model, or Viewports on layout Sheets)
- DIMANNO — Returns whether the current DimensionStyle is an annotative style
- HPANNOTATIVE — Controls whether new Hatches or filled areas are annotative entities
- MSLTSCALE — Determines whether LineStyles on the Model tab or in Viewports of layout Sheets are scaled by annotation scale settings
- SAVE FIDELITY — Controls visual fidelity for annotative entities in legacy drawing files (DWG R2007 and earlier formats)
- SELECTIONANNODISPLAY — Specifies whether annotative entities, if selected, show all representations of the annotation scales assigned to them, or only the original scale
- New system variables for Quick Input methods:
- DYNDIGRIP — Determines which input boxes are displayed as you move an EntityGrip
- DYNDIVIS — Controls the Quick Input dimension input method when you stretch an entity using an EntityGrip
- DYNMODE — Controls the use of Quick Input pointer input and dimension input methods
- DYNPICOORDS. Controls whether the Quick Input pointer input method uses relative or absolute coordinates
- DYNPIFORMAT — Controls whether the Quick Input pointer input method uses polar or Cartesian coordinates
- DYNPIVIS — Controls the Quick Input pointer input method
- DYNPROMPT — Turns on or off the use of prompt tooltips and command input boxes display for Quick Input
- DYNTOOLTIPS — Determines which kind of tooltips are affected by appearence settings
- TOOLTIPMERGE — Determines whether to merge EntitySnap (ESnap) tooltips and Quick Input tooltips into a single tooltip