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Opening a Drawing with the Application Menu
The Application menu offers a quick method for opening drawings. You can even
see a thumbnail preview of the drawings and arrange drawings that you fre-
quently edit so they are easily accessible. Here’s how:
1. To open a new AutoCAD file from the Application menu, choose
New
➢ Drawing, as shown in Figure1.28.
FIGURE 1.28 Opening a new drawing from
the Application menu
This opens the Select Template dialog box, where you select a tem-
plate on which to base the new drawing. Opening a file with a template
is covered in Chapter 2, “Learning Basic Commands to Get Started.”
2. To open an existing file from the Application menu, choose Open➢
Drawing, as shown in Figure1.29.
FIGURE 1.29 Opening an existing drawing from
the Application menu
This opens the Select File dialog box, where you can navigate to
the desired drawing file and select it.
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