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Part I ✦ AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Basics
STEPS: Closing Your Drawing and Exiting AutoCAD
or AutoCAD LT
1. Your drawing should still be on your screen. Choose File ➪ Close. You now see a gray
screen with no drawing. (Repeat this process if you have other drawings open. Save or
cancel the changes to these extra open drawings as you like.)
2. Click the Close button in the upper-right corner to exit AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT. The
program closes immediately.
Summary
In Chapter 1, I explained how to start AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT and create a new drawing. I
gave you a tour of the screen and explained how to save a drawing. This chapter provides the
basis for all your work in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT.
In this chapter, you learned the following:
✦ A brief history of AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
✦ Some of the different disciplines that use AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
✦ How to start AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
✦ How to start a new drawing
✦ The user interface and its various sections, including the drawing area, the UCS icon,
the crosshairs, the menus and toolbars, the command line, and the status bar
✦ How to start a command from a toolbar
✦ How to start a command from the command line
✦ How to start a command from the menu
✦ How to start a command from a tool palette
✦ How to draw lines
✦ Two ways to pick points on the screen to specify coordinates
✦ How to save a drawing for the first time
✦ How to close a drawing
✦ How to exit AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
You may have several questions at this point, but “well begun is half done.” The next chapter
explains all the ways to start a new drawing as well as how to open an existing drawing.
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