Datasheet

3. The large area in the middle of the screen is called the drawing area. It
might need adjusting. Choose View
➣ Visual Styles ➣ 2D Wireframe.
4. Choose View
➣ 3D Views ➣ Plan View ➣ World UCS. If dots appear in
the drawing area, the grid is turned on.
5. Move the cursor to the status bar at the bottom of the screen, and
click the Grid readout button so it’s in the off (unpushed) position. Be
sure all the other readout buttons except Model are in their off
(unpushed) positions.
Your screen should look close enough to Figure 1.3 to continue. You’ll arrange
the toolbars the way you need them a little later.
Introducing the AutoCAD
Graphics Window
At the top of the graphics window sit the title bar, the menu bar, and three toolbars.
You might have more or less than three toolbars; if so, you’ll change that soon.
The title bar is analogous to the title bar in any Windows program. It contains
the program name (AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT) and the title of the current draw-
ing with its path, as long as any drawing other than the default
Drawingn.dwg is
open. Below the title bar is the menu bar, where you’ll see the drop-down
menus. Among the drop-down menus, File, Edit, Window, and Help are standard
Windows menus (meaning that they appear on Windows-compliant applica-
tions). These Windows menus also contain a few commands specific to AutoCAD.
The rest of the menus contain AutoCAD-specific functions.
To the far right of the menus are the InfoCenter, Communications Center, and
Favorites buttons. You can enter a question in the field to the left of the Info-
Center button to quickly access information from the Help system through the
InfoCenter’s drop-down panel. With the Communications Center you can deter-
mine what type of information, such as software updates, product support, or
RSS feeds, Autodesk sends directly to your system.
Title bar Menu bar
Communications
Center
InfoCenter
Favorites
Workspaces toolbar Standard toolbar Layers toolbar Properties toolbar Styles toolbar
Introducing the AutoCAD Graphics Window 7
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The title bar and
menu bar at the top
of the LT screen are
identical to those in
AutoCAD except that
AutoCAD LT appears
in the title bar rather
than AutoCAD.
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LT users can skip
step 3 and move on
to step 4.
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