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Accessing help

Accessing help

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Accessing help

In this video, I'll show you how to access Help, which is built into AutoCAD. The great thing about Help is you can get lots of specific information, but the problem is you have to kind of know what you need to find out, and that can be a problem. So, if you know the command that you are having trouble with, then you can look it up, but if you're not sure what command to use, then that's another story. So, right up here, there's a search engine that you can use to query AutoCAD's built-in help system. So if I want to type in the word circle and then press enter, it will automatically open the page about circles and you can then go to the circle command itself and read about its prompts and so on. This is really most useful when you want to look up a specific piece of information about an option that you just aren't quite understanding. But again, it's really only very limited in its usefulness, because you have to know exactly what you're looking for. You can also get there just by…

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