From the course: AutoCAD 2014 Essential Training: 1 Interface and Drawing Management

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Launching the application

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Launching the application

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After installing AutoCAD 2014, you'll find three new icons on the desktop. This one called the Autodesk 360 represents a cloud based storage service much like Dropbox. Using this service, you can save AutoCAD drawings or related files to an online folder. Where they can be shared with others or accessed remotely using a smart phone or tablet. Autodesk ReCap is a program designed for managing point clouds. ReCap stands for reality capture. Using ReCap, you can open and view point cloud data. You can also take measurements or crop files down to a more manageable size. Generally speaking, ReCap is a go-between application to help you process point clouds such that they can then be referenced into AutoCAD. For more information on these programs, please check out the AutoCAD 2014 New Features title. In that course, I cover the basics of using each of these applications. At this point, I'm going to use the AutoCAD icon to launch AutoCAD. When AutoCAD is first launched, the welcome screen is…

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