ARES Commander - Network ( Flex ) - 1-Year Subscription License - (Minimum 3 Seats)

Highlights

A professional cross-platform DWG CAD ecosystem designed to take your CAD anywhere, ARES Commander is a switch made easy – providing a familiar look & feel that is intuitive for any experienced CAD user. Much more than a cost-effective alternative for DWG-editing, ARES Commander is making no compromises in features and innovations.

	Dedicated To Productivity Any OS: ARES Commander can be installed on Windows, macOS or several Linux distributions Work offline: ARES Commander is fully installed on your laptops and/or computers as you have ever been used to Buy 1 license and work from any computer: ARES Commander, the same user can work from up to 2 computers simultaneously and even log out to work from other computers. You may even use computers under different operating systems. CAD anywhere: When you buy ARES Commander you also get a 1 year subscription for ARES Touch (to work on your Android and iOS devices) and ARES Kudo, our cloud-based solution. Support included: When you buy ARES Commander the license includes a 1-year subscription to receive all the updates as well as access to our Support Desk via email. Upon expiration you are free to renew your support agreement or withdraw.
Leverage the intelligence of BIM to automate CAD drawings production With ARES Commander you can import and view Revit and IFC files, but most interestingly you can extract 2D drawings from them, extract the BIM information into tables and draw additional CAD details on top of the geometry acquired from the BIM project. BIM Import: Import .RVT or .IFC models Access & Browse: Filter relevant BIM information Extraction & Take-offs: Read & extract BIM data into tables or .csv Smart & Intelligent: Automate drawings productions from the BIM model Reduce CAD work repetition: Update drawings after BIM model changes

What's New

New CAD Features

• Modern DWG Editing Across All Your Devices - Whether they’re located at home, in the office, or in the field, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) professionals all have something in common: They have lots of work to do and little time to do it. Version 2023 of ARES Commander includes a range of improvements to drawing navigation, the user interface, and file printing and sharing that make drawing creation and collaboration measurably more efficient.
  Access the right tools for the job at exactly the right moment, pick the desired entity out of a crowd easily, automatically package projects for sharing — it all adds up to less time, less effort, and less frustration.
• Contextual Ribbon Tabs - The ARES Commander user interface is now enhanced with contextual ribbons that are displayed when you select specific entities in the graphics area, or when you use certain commands for creating new entities.
  Contextual tabs bring important usability benefits, including:
• Relevant tools for completing the task are provided automatically
• The graphics area is not blocked by a modal dialog box
• Changes that you apply to entities are visible in real time
  Changes that you apply to entities are visible in real time.
ARES Commander offers contextual tabs for the following operations:
• Creating and editing hatches
• Editing table cells
• Editing PDF and DGN underlay
  Editing images and external references
• Editing annotation entities, dimensions, leaders, multileader, and tolerance symbols.
• Link Table Data with Excel - Content of your tables can be linked with spreadsheets to update each other. 
  You can create tables in ARES Commander — however, it’s more convenient and flexible to use spreadsheet editors for filling in and managing the data. And sometimes you may receive a completed spreadsheet that you need to include in a drawing, but retyping or copying and pasting it is a tedious task. In both these scenarios, this new feature can save time and effort.
  Now you can take all the data you have already entered in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and reuse it in a table created in ARES Commander. You can link to an entire spreadsheet, a predefined cell range, or a cell range in Excel.
  
  

New Productivity Features

• Cycling Selection - Having the right tools available when you work on your drawings helps you work efficiently.
  Cycling selection is a time-saving solution when working with crowded drawings that include stacked and overlapped entities. When you hover the mouse cursor over stacked entities, a small icon makes you aware that there is more than one entity. Clicking to specify entities displays a dialog box, in which you can select the entity you want to modify.
• 3D View Navigator - Move among views quickly.
  When using the new View Navigator tool in a 3D environment, you can switch between standard views and isometric views of the model with a single click. The View Navigator’s intuitive interface acts as a 3D orientation indicator, enabling you to see the current view direction.
  The View Navigator is a very helpful feature while working in a 3D environment, as you can easily switch between parallel and perspective views, but you can use it in 2D as well.
• Share Sheet Sets with Pack and Go - Automatically gather everything together for your collaborators.
  The Pack and Go feature has been improved to be used with sheet sets. It makes it easy for you to package into a zip file all sheet set references such as all the drawings of your project, but also the images or underlays inserted in them. Additionally, the directory structure is maintained with relative paths, ensuring that no link will be broken when your contact unzips the project.
• Sheet List Table - Reduce redundant work by filling tables automatically
  Located in the Sheet Set Manager right-click menu, this functionality provides a way to create a table inside the drawing listing all the sheets or subsets. Consequently, users can avoid filling in this table manually, or retyping the sheet name or other information already provided in the sheet set.
• Publish Sheet Sets to DWF or DWFx - Two new output options join Publish to PDF
  To improve the ways that the Sheet Set Manager can export drawings, we introduced support for DWF and DWFx — file formats which are much more compressed than DWG files, and therefore easy to transmit over the Internet. These are just two more options for the Publish command, in addition to the popular PDF format and the possibility to print on paper.
  
  

More Productivity Features

• Split Multiple Entities - New option expands the command’s functionality.
  The new Multiple option of the SPLIT command allows you to select multiple entities and break them at their intersection points with cutting lines. No gaps are created, and the split segments remain on the drawing.
• ALIGNX - Align multiple entity types.
  The new ALIGNX command aligns several types of entities, following the position of the first entity that you selected.
• Annotation Monitor - Find disassociated annotations quickly.
  The new Annotation Monitor system variable enables you to easily identify which annotations are no longer associated with their related geometry, and to take the necessary action in each case: reassociate the annotation or delete it.
• Smart Calculator Palette - Get answers without leaving your drawing
  The Smart Calculator now displays in a side palette, allowing you to perform calculations and edit the drawing at the same time.
• Dark-Style Dialog Boxes - A higher-contrast look enhances readability.
  In addition to the Ribbon, status bar, and palettes, all dialog boxes support the dark-style interface. This minimizes the contrast between the drawing area and the dialog boxes to help reduce eyestrain. Moreover, the dialog boxes of the dark-style interface have better contrast than those of the light-style interface, making it easier to read and find icons.

New BIM Features

To help professionals produce higher-quality 2D drawings with less effort, Graebert has expanded the capabilities of ARES Commander with BIM-centric features that create smart, connected DWG drawings. And because ARES Commander leverages the intelligence within BIM objects to automate drawing production, the process is quick and easy for CAD users.

But creating BIM drawings is only the first step; they must also be kept current as the BIM project progresses. In many organizations, BIM and 2D CAD are regrettably parallel processes, running separately rather than cooperatively. Consequently, maintaining up-to-date 2D files is a burden. But because ARES Commander retains associativity with the BIM model, the DWG drawings can be refreshed automatically whenever the BIM model updates. Project changes may be inevitable, but rework is not — thanks to smarter DWGs.

• View Navigator for BIM Drawings - Useful in 2D, the View Navigator is even more valuable for 3D projects.
  The new View Navigator is particularly useful for BIM projects, including Revit or IFC models imported into ARES Commander. You can easily examine your model from different angles, and create BIM drawings from them by using the Plan, Section, and Elevation features.
• Share BIM Drawings with Pack and Go - Bundling command now supports BIM projects and references.
  With ARES Commander you can import IFC and Revit files and extract 2D BIM drawings in DWG, such as floor plans, elevations, or sections. The result will be one main drawing for your project and one reference file for each BIM drawing you created. With the new Pack and Go feature you can easily share your entire project, as all files will be grouped in a ZIP file.
• BIM Labels: Rooms and Spaces - (supported for IFC, soon also for REVIT)
  Display existing rooms and spaces properties in drawings and labels
  Rooms and spaces are an important part of detailed plans. Now, drawings and labels display rooms and spaces properties that are already defined in the BIM model (for example, the name or the area).
• Material Mapper for BIM: Unify Material - (supported for IFC, soon also for REVIT). Unify material representation for adjacent entities.
  When adjacent entities, such as two walls, have the same material, the hatch representing the material is displayed as one entity. With the BIMMATERIALMAPPER command, you can select any element from the BIM model (IFC or RVT) in the BIM Navigator and view it in the model, as well as on the 2D drawings.
• Material Mapper for BIM: Multi-Component Walls - (supported for IFC, soon also for REVIT). Expanded function now accommodates walls with multiple materials. 
  In a drawing, entities are stylized according to graphics standards describing their material (wood, steel, concrete, etc.). The ARES Material Mapper function connects the material name property of BIM elements to the corresponding material style in the ARES Materials Styles Library. Once mapped, all drawings receive the correct graphics styles automatically. Now, the Material Mapper provides support for multi-component walls. Whenever the BIM object is a multi-component wall, it will be represented with its different layers and you can assign a different style for each material (for example, the insulation with one specific hatch, and the bricks with another).
• Revit 2022 File Format Support - Import RVT 2011 through 2022.
  With support for the Revit 2022 file format, ARES Commander 2023 enables users to create BIM drawings from the latest RVT files.

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ARES Commander provides maximum licensing flexibility and can be purchased with or without Trinity, as a perpetual or term license, and for a single user or as a flex/network license. Choose the licensing model that best suits your needs.
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