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3. Click on any drawing to bring it to the front of the AutoCAD window.
4. You can change the way AutoCAD displays the list of open drawings
by clicking the icon near the top of the right pane and choosing one
of four sizes of icons or thumbnail images to represent the open
drawings.
Another option for switching between open drawings is to click the Quick
View Drawings button in the status bar. This displays thumbnails for the open
drawings, and you can click any thumbnail to make its drawing active. Hovering
over a thumbnail displays that drawing’s layouts (see Figure1.33). Layouts are
designated views of the drawing with scaled viewports looking into the drawing
model. Viewports are covered in Chapter 14.
FIGURE 1.33 Displaying the open drawings with
the Quick View Drawings tool
Using the Drop-Down Menus
If you prefer to use drop-down menus, they’re still available in AutoCAD 2012,
although they are turned off by default in the Drafting & Annotation, 3D Basics,
and 3D Modeling workspaces. You can display them by switching to the AutoCAD
Classic workspace, clicking the down-arrow at the right end of the Quick Access
toolbar, and choosing Show Menu Bar (see Figure1.34), or by typing
MENUBAR↵1↵.
This book focuses on the use of the Ribbon; the menus are covered here so you’ll
be familiar with them if you use them in the future.
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