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Using the navigation bar

Using the navigation bar - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using the navigation bar

- [Voiceover] AutoCAD has a really neat feature in the drawing area that allows you to work really quickly and easily within any AutoCAD drawing, and that's the nav bar, or navigation bar as it's known. It's actually down here on the right-hand side in the drawing area. It's just here with all these little icons here. Now, before we get into it, just be aware that we're still using the 01_Exploring.dwg file. And what the nav bar allows us to do is navigate the drawing. Now, before we actually use the nav bar, there's a little variable you need to know. Now, if you've got dynamic input switched on, you can just move the crosshair into the center of the screen and type nav, N-A-V-B-A-R, and press enter like that, and it means that you can have the nav bar either on or off. So if I click on OFF now, you'll see it disappears. It's not there anymore on the right-hand side of the screen. If I just right-click now and Repeat NAVBAR on the shortcut menu, I can switch it on again like so, and…

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