AutoCAD Menu Bar

AutoCAD Title Bar

Is the title bar of the AutoCAD program.

The title bar is analogous to the title bar in Windows programs.

Contains writings AutoCAD and file names that are active at this time.

graphic screen menu bar

graphic screen menu bar or pull down menu is the menu in the windows system used to access the AutoCAD commands.

Here you will see a drop-down menu that contains functions for using AutoCAD, among other commands for drawing, change the settings, store and display image files and so on

Standard Toolbar

Standard Toolbar are buttons that contain AutoCAD commands that can be used quickly and practically.

Standard Toolbar offers users a simple way to control AutoCAD without memorizing a lot of technical command and option names.

Standard Toolbar is usually positioned below the screen menu bar and allows you access to some of the options icons including New, Open, Save, Plot, etc.

Standard toolbar can be moved or positioned anywhere on the screen or 'turned off' if not needed.

It is recommended that the Standard toolbar is displayed at all times and positioned below the screen as the default menu bar.

Layer Toolbar

By the Layer toolbar allows you to assign a color linetypes and layers of different names.

This layer can be 'turned' on / off when not needed.

Draw toolbar

Draw toolbar are buttons that contain the commands for drawing in AutoCAD that can be used quickly and practically.

Draw toolbar can be moved or positioned according to your wishes.

Object Snap toolbar

Object Snap toolbar displayed at the cursor location when you hold down SHIFT and click the right mouse button.

An object snap mode to determine the exact location of points on the object.

This toolbar is very useful in making precise drawings.

Displays the menu screen

Displays the menu screen on the right side of the drawing area. AutoCAD screen menu font is controlled by the Windows system font settings.

Displays screen menu contains commands AutoCAD.

Drawing area

Empty area in the middle of the screen, called the graphics window or image area.

This area is for displaying images, making the depiction and image editing.

In general we will use to A3 paper size, but can also be used with paper size images are very large and very small.

Co-ordinate System icon (UCS icon)

Symbol with two arrows in the drawing area. This symbol is called the User Coordinate System (UCS) icon.

Arrow pointing toward the horizontal (X) and vertical axis (Y) for 2D, in 3D Z-axis direction will appear.

0.0 is a system origin (the origin)

Crosshairs are the lines intersect with a small box.

This little box is called pickbox because it helps us to choose (select), or pic, object ..

This line is also called the crosshairs showing the location of the mouse cursor in relation to other objects in the picture.

When we move the mouse, and the crosshair moves in accordance with the movement of your mouse. at the bottom of the screen, at the left end of the status bar, we can see the X, Y coordinates change when we move your mouse.

We can control the crosshair size ranges from 1 to 100 percent of the entire screen.

At 100 percent, the tip of the crosshair has never seen. If the size is decreased to 99 percent or below, the crosshair has a limited size,

and the end of the crosshair is visible when located on the edge of the drawing area. Crosshair default size is 5 percent.

Area command prompt window (command line)

At the bottom of the drawing area, you see a separate window shows about three or more lines of text.

You can execute any command by typing in the command line.

Even if you use a menu item or ribbon to execute commands,

You can see the response in the command line.

AutoCAD also provides options that you have typed on the keyboard.

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