The upgrade eligibility timescales are as follows: If you upgrade your software to a new version (not a new product purchase) you will get a bonus 3 months FREE upgrade period (as a 'safety net' in case Vectric release another version within 3 months of your most recent upgrade purchase) For example, the price to upgrade to the latest version of the software if the same, regardless of whether you are upgrading from version 4.0 or 11.0. You can upgrade to the latest version of the software for the same price, regardless of the version you are currently running. In this way, we can have a preview of the aspect of the line thickness in the drawing.Ĭlick here to get Free Trial Version of ARES CAD Software.Minor updates are always free to anyone who has the same major version (e.g V11.5 will be free to all owners of V11.0 software).Īny major version of the software released within 12 months of you purchasing the software is supplied free of charge and available from your V&Co account. With the same button, we can deactivate it. And now, from the LAYER MANAGER we assign a line thickness to our new layer and as you see, the entity will now stand out from the rest. On the other hand, here below, we can activate, line thickness. In this case, it affects the elements since both have established the line style by LAYER that is to say that depends on the configuration of the layer. In the same way, we can change other elements, for example, the line style. While this other has a specific and independent color and so does not change when we change the color of the layer.
This is because this object is assigned the “BYLAYER” color, for e.g. When you click OK, we will see that this object has changed color, but this other one does not. For example change the assigned color, to “red”. Now we return to the LAYER MANAGER, to make a change in the new layer. In short, the colors in a layer serve to distinguish objects, to give a different aesthetic to the drawing, or to later define a printing table where we could assign a specific printing thickness and color for each color on the screen. Changing Layer ColorĪlthough they have different colors. In this way, if we turn off the “new layer”, both objects will disappear since they both belong to the same layer. Now, when drawing, the element contains the specific color that we have defined, although it belongs to the new layer.
While, as you can see, we are working on the new layer. For it, here, we can indicate a specific color. If we wish, we can draw a new object with another color than the default one of the layer. When selecting the new object copied, we can see that it is on another layer. On the other hand, if we make a copy of an existing object the copy will be exactly similar to the original object, including the layer to which it belongs. That means that from now on, any entity we will draw will be in the new active layer.Īny element that we are going to draw, will be done in the new layer. If we want to use another active layer, we must select the layer and click on ACTIVE. Our layer is created, however, it is not the active layer as we can see here. In addition, we can add a description that may, for example, facilitate the work with colleagues. This other icon, allows you to determine in which VIEWPORT of the paper space, the layer will be displayed. This icon allows you to set whether or not a layer will be printable. But it is something that can be changed at the time of printing. Until it is configured, it will display the default values, because it will depend on the printing system. Here, it is not showing what color this layer will be printed in. On a zero percent opacity, it has full transparency. Layer OptionsĪ layer can be transparent or opaque. In such a way that we can keep the thickness of the drawing, or we can make a new configuration according to the colors. Note however that, at the time of printing, there is the possibility to use a print style to change these parameters. Layers may have a line thickness configured. Or you may also load a specific line style. We can also determine the line type known in ARES as “line style”. Determine if that layer is going to be visible or not. In this video, we will learn how to create and configure layers in technical drawings.įor that, we need to click on LAYER MANAGER. It’s easy to organize drawings using layers. Technical drawings are characterized by using LAYERS.