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The ribbon and panels

The ribbon and panels - AutoCAD Tutorial

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The ribbon and panels

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- [Instructor] So we're staying in the Interface.dwg file, and what we're going to look at now in the AutoCAD interface is the ribbon interface at the top of the screen, and the panels that you have on the ribbon as well. Now, you'll notice when you first start up AutoCAD and open up a drawing, in this case, the Interface.dwg file, that you've got the ribbon at the top of the screen and you can click on the ribbon tabs, like so. So these ribbon tabs allow you to, obviously, access all the different commands available to you in AutoCAD. So there's the Insert tab, the Annotate tab, and as you work across, you've got Parametric, View, Manage, Output, A360, if you're using the internet-based A360 drive, and you've also got the AutoCAD Express Tools, which are all the specific little funky tools that you have to do lots of little niche things, such as Align Space, Move/Copy/Rotate, and so on. Now, I'm going to go back to the Home tab on the ribbon now, and you'll notice that when you're in…

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