Datasheet

At the end of the top line of text is _all. This tells you that you have
used the All option of the Zoom command. This fly-out menu is
called the Zoom fly-out menu because it contains tools for changing
views of the drawing, or “zooming around in the drawing.”
5. Look at the Standard toolbar where the Zoom Window button was
previously. Notice that the Zoom All button has replaced it.
TIP On a toolbar fly-out menu, the button you select replaces the button
that was on the toolbar. This arrangement is handy if you’re going to be using
the same command several times, because the button for the command is
readily available and you don’t have to open the fly-out menu to select it
again. The order of the fly-out menu buttons remains the same, so when you
open the Zoom fly-out menu again, the Zoom Window button will be at the
top of the list. You’ll need to become familiar with any fly-out menu buttons
you use, because the last one used becomes the representative button on the
toolbar.
The behavior of the Zoom fly-out menu on the Standard toolbar is the same as
the behavior of fly-out menus in general.
NOTE Whenever you start AutoCAD or LT for a new drawing session,
the toolbars are reset and contain the original fly-out menu buttons.
The toolbar fly-out menus are regular toolbars that have been attached to
another toolbar. AutoCAD has 37 toolbars in all, but only a few have fly-out
menus—the Zoom fly-out menu I just discussed and the Insert fly-out menu on
the Draw toolbar, for example. You can display the Zoom and Insert fly-out
menus as regular toolbars, independent of the Standard and Draw toolbars.
Displaying and Arranging Toolbars
In this section, I’ll use the Zoom toolbar to show you some ways you can control
and manipulate toolbars. Follow these steps:
1. Be sure the padlock icon in the lower-right corner of your screen is in
unlocked mode. Then, right-click any toolbar button on the screen to
open the Toolbars menu (see Figure 1.10).
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LT has 24 toolbars
compared with
AutoCAD’s 37. The
additional toolbars in
AutoCAD are almost
all for 3D and ren-
dering tools.
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