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If this is the first time you’ve started AutoCAD since you installed it, you’re asked to register
and authorize AutoCAD in step 2. If you’re using the trial version, you can use the default serial
number 000-00000000 for the one-month trial. After you’ve entered the registration information,
you see the New Features Workshop window described in step 3.
Let’s look at the AutoCAD window in detail. Don’t worry if it seems like a lot of information.
You don’t have to memorize it, but by looking at all the parts, you’ll be aware of what is available
in a general way.
The AutoCAD Window
The AutoCAD program window is divided into six parts:
Menu Browser
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Quick Access toolbar
Ribbon
Drawing area
Command window
Status bar
Figure 1.1, shown earlier in this chapter, shows a typical layout of the AutoCAD program
window. Along the top is the Quick Access toolbar, and just below that is the Ribbon. At the bot-
tom are the Command window and the status bar. The drawing area occupies the rest of the screen.
You can organize the AutoCAD window into any arrangement you want and save it as a work-
space. You can save and recall a workspace at any time using the Workspace Switching tool in
Figure 1.1
A typical arrange-
ment of the
elements in the
AutoCAD window.
The Sheet Set
Manager palette
(or Info palette
for LT) is closed for
clarity.
Quick Access toolbar
Menu
Browser
Ribbon
Drawing
area
UCS
Command
window
Status bar
InfoCenter
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