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The status bar

The status bar - AutoCAD LT Tutorial

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The status bar

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- [Shaun Bryant] Once again, we're staying in our Interface.dwg file. This time we're gonna have a look at the status bar at the bottom of the AutoCAD LT screen. So that's this bar of icons right down here at the bottom of the screen. So you got things like Polar Tracking, which is blue and on, Object Snap Tracking, which is blue and on, anything that's gray is not on. So basically all of these settings allow me to work with my AutoCAD drawings. Now, one of the settings that is always on by default in AutoCAD when you start it up is Dynamic Input. Now there is no icon for Dynamic Input on the status bar by default. What I want to do is I want to switch that on. So I'm gonna go in here now to this little three-bar icon here, Customization. When I click on it, I get this great big long menu on the right hand side of the screen And you'll notice if I go up that list, Dynamic Input isn't ticked. So if I now click on it, it gets a tick next to it. And it also gets its own icon down on the…

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