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Interface elements - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD 360
Interface elements
- Let's go ahead and start opening some DWG files and see what we can do with them. I'm going to open the sample files that we uploaded last video, and I'm going to open the dog house plan seen here. The web browser may take a moment to load the interface depending on the size of your file. Once the file is open, we can begin to see our options. The first thing to decide is what part of the drawing we want to modify. Like AutoCAD on the desktop, we have workspaces that show us different toolbars and palettes to accomplish specific tasks. These are Design and Sheets found here. Design puts us in model space, so we can edit the geometry of our drawing itself. I have palettes specific to drawing and modifying as well as my Layers and a small, quick Properties palette. However, if I switch to Sheets, we can see the bulk of those palettes disappear. I'm left with the Layers palette and a Sheets palette, which allows me to display all the layouts in this file both as thumbnails or a list. I…
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