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Properties palette - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Properties palette

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- [Instructor] The Properties Inspector Pallette is a very useful and powerful tool in your drafting toolbox. By default, when no command is active, and no objects are selected, it shows and allows you to change your current dimension and text style, as well as a lot of other important current information. When an object is selected, like this circle, we get a list of properties specific to that circle. Some of the fields are informational and grayed out, like the area, and normal X, Y, and Z, while others, like the radius, are actually editable. I can simply click in the field, and then type in a new value and press Return. If I select more than one object of the same type, like multiple circles, I can actually edit that same property for all of the circles I have selected. In this case, I'll type a new diameter of 1.5 and press Return. If I select more than one object type, like all of these objects here, we can see that I only get a list of the common properties, in this case…

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