From the course: AutoCAD Electrical: Implementing PLCs

The new AutoCAD 2019 interface - AutoCAD Electrical Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD Electrical: Implementing PLCs

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The new AutoCAD 2019 interface

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- [Instructor] As I've mentioned in previous videos during this introduction to your AutoCAD Electrical Working with PLCs course, we are using AutoCAD Electrical 2019. Now, the 2019, the AutoCAD Electrical piece of software, has a different icon interface. The 2019 range of AutoCAD applications, things like AutoCAD Electrical, AutoCAD Architecture, and so on, all have a new icon interface, and it may look different to the version that you're using. If you're using, for example, AutoCAD Electrical 2016, the icons will be different. So it's predominantly a facelift. The icons have been changed, the colors have been changed. But just so that you're aware of those changes, we're just going to take you through a couple of those at the top in the ribbon in AutoCAD Electrical. So you'll notice the icons are different. They're different colors. You can see, for example, the offset command there looks different to the old offset command and it's a different color. If I jump into some of the AutoCAD Electrical icons, if I go to Project, you can see that the icons are more colorful and a little bit more descriptive. So, for example, the surfer now in AutoCAD Electrical looks a bit like a Maori Hawaiian symbol, actually, and he looks a bit cool there riding on his waves, for example. If I jump into the Schematic tab on the AutoCAD Electrical ribbon, you can see that things like the wire commands are a lot more descriptive. They're a lot more colorful. And a picture does quite literally paint a thousand words. You can now see all the wire commands have that red insulation on them with the little bits of wire sticking out at each end. It's much, much more obvious what the commands do because the icons have been updated. So just be aware of that if you are using AutoCAD Electrical 2019 for the first time. The icons are different. But more importantly, if you're using an older version of AutoCAD Electrical, again, the icons will be different. They will be the older type of icons, and they'll look slightly different to what you see in the videos in this course.

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