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Enabling the heads-up display
From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
Enabling the heads-up display
If you've been watching the videos in this course in a linear fashion, you've seen me use dynamic input many times. But if you're jumping in here, I'll show you how to use this system and I'll give you even more detail about how it works. So let's draw a line, and right now I'm seeing the dynamic input. That's controlled here with this status bar toggle. When that's off, I don't see that information next to the cursor. When it's on, we have the command prompt, it says the same thing down there in the command line, specify first point, and we also see two coordinate values for the x and the y coordinates. As I go through the commands it switched to the polar coordinate system, and it also is reading me the prompt, specify next point or down arrow. There's one option at this stage, which is Undo. Right here, I can click that on the command line, or I could press the down arrow on the keyboard to open up this menu where I could choose Undo here. Alternatively, I could type in U+Enter on…
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Using Grid and Snap4m 6s
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Making isometric drawings3m 54s
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Understanding coordinate systems5m 48s
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Using polar tracking3m 29s
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Enabling the heads-up display4m 13s
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Working with object snaps9m 47s
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Using the From command6m 43s
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Employing object-snap tracking2m 26s
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Creating coordinate systems of your own6m 38s
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