From the course: AutoCAD 2017: Migrating from Windows to Mac
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Menu bar - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2017: Migrating from Windows to Mac
Menu bar
- [Instructor] There are a few elements of AutoCAD that have remained fairly consistent through the years. One is the command line, and the other is the menu bar. Now, on the PC, the menu bar is hidden by default, but here on the Mac, it's front and center, like all other Mac applications. And, like other Mac apps, we'll start here, next to the Apple logo, in the active application menu dropdown. Here, we find our preferences, as well as tools like quitting or hiding AutoCAD. As we move to the right, we find the File dropdown. This has all the actions we would want to do to our file, like saving, creating a new file, importing, or plotting. This brings me to a concept I think is all too often overlooked by computer users. The menu bar dropdowns are typically organized so that the commands below each heading relate to that heading. If I want to draw something, I'd look under the Draw menu. If I have something I want to change, I'd look under the Modify menu item, and so forth. It…
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