Datasheet

Drawing window
The drawing window (see Figure 1-3) is the main area in the middle of AutoCAD where
you add and modify objects in the designs that you create. When you create a new
drawing or open an existing drawing, a drawing window appears. Each open drawing
has its own drawing window. Along the bottom of each drawing window, you find these
items:
 A series of tabs similar to those found in a spreadsheet program; these tabs repre-
sent where you create your model (Model tab) and the layouts used for plotting
different views of your model.
You can turn off the Model tab and layout tabs if you don’t want them displayed.
In their place are two buttons that allow you to switch to a different layout tab.
 To the left of the tabs are navigation controls that allow you to scroll to the first,
last, next, or previous layout tab if all the tabs can’t be displayed along the bottom
of the drawing window at a time.
 The drawing status bar along the bottom displays settings specific to the drawing,
such as the current annotation scale. If you disable the drawing status bar, the
options are displayed in the status bar area of the application window instead.
Menus
Command Line window
Drawing window
Toolbars
Title bar Info Center
Status barStatus bar tray
Status bar menu
Clean Screen
icon
Dockable
window
Figure 1-2:
An AutoCAD
application
window.
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