Datasheet
If your screen looks like Figure 1.4 or isn’t at all like Figure 1.3, you need to
make a few changes:
1. Click the Workspace Switching button in the status bar and choose
2D Drafting & Annotation. Alternately, you can choose Tools
➣
Workspaces ➣ 2D Drafting & Annotation.
2. The 2D Drafting & Annotation workspace may display the tool palettes
on the screen. If the palettes are displayed, you need to turn them off
for now by clicking the X in the upper-right corner. Your workspace
might have different palettes displayed than those shown in Figure 1.5.
If other palettes are still visible, click the X in the upper-right or upper-
left corner of each palette to close them.
FIGURE 1.5: The tool palettes
3. The large area in the middle of the screen is called the drawing area.
It might need adjusting. Enter visualstyles↵ to open the Visual Styles
Manager, and then click the 2D Wireframe option (see Figure 1.6).
Close the Visual Styles Manager.
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LT users can skip
step 3 and move on
to step 4
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