News on Youtube Feb 1 2019

In a previous video,

we have seen how to make this block acquire "smart" capabilities

and thus be able to stretch the sides through grips

to lengthen the wall and the fence at the same time.

In this video we will learn how to use the "Visibility" parameter

in order to change between the 6 types of doors

that can be seen here.

The drawing that we have above,

is a Custom Block.

While the ones that appear here below

are drawings that combine arcs, lines and polylines.

The first thing we will do

is to incorporate the drawings of the doors

inside the Custom Block.

For this we select all the doors,

and with the key combination Control + X

we are going to cut them.

Now we double click on the Custom Block, to edit it.

Then use the key combination Control + V

to paste the doors inside.

In this case we are going to create an "element" of "Visibility"

and place it with a click.

We see that the panel containing the visibility states is enabled

and we click on Visibility State.

Since there are 6 doors,

we need 6 visibility states.

We can assign them a name,

or accept the one that comes by default

and change it later.

Now pay attention to these 3 icons.

Basically we have to go state by state,

and define what geometry is going to be seen

and what is not.

For example, in the first state of visibility

we want to see the indicated door,

and not the rest.

For this we use the icon on the right

to hide the unwanted doors.

We change to the next state,

and we will hide all of them,

except the first one in the bottom row.

We change to the next state of visibility,

to repeat the same action

and thus configure each of the doors.

all in all this icon helps us to hide geometry

in a certain state of visibility.

Once the visibility states are configured,

although the doors should be moved to their final position,

it is convenient to first test the block.

That's why we close,

save the changes and test it.

We select the block,

we click on the grip and

we test the visibility states one by one.

In the third option we detect an error,

since one more door appears.

We continue testing the rest

At the moment, only the third option has an error,

which we will correct by editing the block again.

We switch to the third state of visibility, and hide the unwanted door.

We close and save the changes,

to corroborate that the custom block is already corrected.

Now, we can edit the block to activate all the doors,

using the first of the three icons that appear

in the Display State section,

to be able to visualize all the elements,

turned off or not.

Then we can move each of the doors to its final position.

For this we will use the "Move" command.

We close and save the changes in the Custom Block,

to now try again the different states of visibility.

In any case the states of visibility

can have a proper name,

which we will be able to easily modify

This will help to be able to choose more easily

the type of door selected.

Eventually one could name each door

after its reference from the manufacturer.

In the first video, we have seen how to add grips

to lengthen the wall,

at the same time

we increase the vertical elements of the fence.

In this video, we have seen how to use visibility states

to vary the design of the door of this access,

, according to different pre-configured options.

In the next video,

we are going to combine the 2 concepts,

so that when changing for a specific type of door,

the type of fence is also changed,

while this is adapted to the length of the wall.

So I create an even more powerful block.

To learn more about Custom Blocks in ARES Commander,

be sure to visit the extensive help

offered by the software.