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7. Right-click and select Copy.
8. Click inside the other drawing window to make it active.
9. Right-click and select Paste. The clip appears at the cursor in the new drawing.
10. Position the clip in the middle of the rectangle you drew earlier and left-click the mouse.
The clip is copied into the second drawing.
11. This ends the exercises for this chapter. Save the file and then exit AutoCAD.
Note that 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 indi-
vidual document windows as you would any window, using the Window drop-down menu or
the window control buttons in the upper-right corner of the document window.
Adding a Predrawn Symbol with the Tool Palettes
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 feature. AutoCAD offers several tool palettes that
enable you to 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 the tool palettes are open, you can select a tab in the Tool Palettes window containing
the predrawn objects 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 1.21).
In addition to predrawn objects, the tool palettes offer a way to add hatch patterns and
other components quickly to your drawing. They’re great tools to help you manage your
library of custom, predrawn symbols. Chapter 29 shows you how to use and customize the
tool palettes.
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