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Working With AutoCAD
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Now you’ve had two files open at once. You can have as many files open as you want as long
as your computer has adequate memory to accommodate them. You can control the individual
document windows as you would any window, using the Window drop-down menu or the win-
dow control buttons in the upper-right corner of the document window.
Adding a Predrawn Symbol with the Tool Palette
In the preceding exercise, you saw how you can easily copy an object from one file to another by
using the standard Windows Cut and Paste tools. AutoCAD offers a Tool Palettes tool that lets
you click and drag predrawn objects into your drawing.
You can open the Tool palettes by clicking the Tool Palettes tool in the View tab’s Palettes
panel.
View tab
Tool Palettes tool in
Palettes panel
Once it’s open, you can select a tab in the Tool Palettes window containing the predrawn ob-
jects you want to use and then click the specific object you want to add. The object appears at the
cursor, ready for you to select a location (see Figure 1.22).
Figure 1.21
Grips shown in the
2D drawing.
Select this part
of the drawing.
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