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■ Under Window Elements, select or clear Show ToolTips.
■ If you want to change the time interval between displaying the basic tooltip text and the
extended information, select a different delay value. If you want to turn off the extended
tooltip information completely, clear Show extended ToolTips.
■ Click OK.
10 Open the tutorial project:
■ On the Navigation toolbar, click (Project Browser).
You use the Project Browser to create, copy, and switch between projects.
■ In the left pane, click , and scroll up to view the current file path and folder.
By default, the path and folder is C:\My Documents\Autodesk\My Projects. This is the
location of the project file that you open and use for this tutorial.
■ In the left pane of the Project Browser, double-click the project, Getting_Started_I
[Getting_Started_M].
The project displays in bold type to indicate it is the current project. The right pane of the
Project Browser displays the project bulletin board, which can be used to communicate
information about the current project.
■ Click Close.
Two important workspace features display: a Getting_Started project tool palette and the
Project Navigator.
The Getting_Started project tool palette contains all the AutoCAD Architecture tools that
you need to complete the exercises in this guide. Tools are objects that you use to draw in
AutoCAD Architecture, and they are arranged on tabbed palettes. The tool represents the
real-world object that you want to add to your drawing.
Using the Project Navigator, you create, access, and organize drawings in the current project
within the software environment.
Managing Your Drawings
In this exercise, you learn how AutoCAD Architecture project drawings are organized and managed. The
Drawing Management feature in AutoCAD Architecture lets you distribute your building geometry amongst
a number of drawing files and manage them with the Project Navigator. In the past, you may have used
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