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Properties - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Properties

- [Instructor] The Properties Inspector Pallet 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 textile as well as a lot of other important current information. When an object is selected, like say this circle, it shows me a lot of information specific to this circle. Some of these are informational only, like the grayed-out ones down here, like area and normal. However, some of these are editable like the radius. I can simply highlight that field and then type in a new value and press Return. If I select more than one, I can actually edit the same property for all of the circles as well as getting a count here at the top. Let's type in something like one and press Return. If I select more than one object type, like all of these objects here, I get a smaller list of just common…

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