0 Autocad inteface Part I

Part 1 AUTOCAD INTERFACE AND PRELIMINARY SETTINGS I will give to assume that the program is already installed on your computer and ready for use. If you do not have the program you can download a trial version from Autodesk's website at: When you start Autocad will be presented with a window similar to the one below. And here is our program, you see similar to almost all Windows programs comes with a row of pop-up menu at the top with the commands "file, edit, view, insert" and so on.. , and several "toolbars" . All those buttons, which correspond to various commands that we will see below, are divided into groups, the "toolbars", which can be customized to make them visible or invisible, and move into desired position. In the picture above this interface has already been partially done, so you might see things arranged differently from how have you on your screen. Do not worry about it for now, also depending on the version of Autocad, icons may look slightly different, but basically the symbols represented at least for the main controls are the same. Then we have the central area, that the drawing area (usually a black background), with the center of the cursor or " crosshairs " controlled by the mouse. In addition to this in the bottom left, still in the drawing area, you should see an icon with two arrows and the letters X, Y This is the icon called "UCS" and represents the coordinate axes X, Y on which you move the crosshairs. A large part of very important and I ask you to remember is the "command line" , which is the window at the bottom on two or more lines at the bottom where you see write "command:". It 's very important especially in the beginning you get used to observe what is written in this window when you run the command, Autocad every time you use a command here shows you the steps to run it. Introduction to "Toolbars" Well, back to the "toolbar" and see the first two to be taken into consideration. The "draw" toolbar And the "modify" toolbar Ideally they should already be visible to the sides of the canvas, perhaps a right, left and arranged vertically. If not, move the pointer over any button of the toolbar and click on this with the RIGHT CLICK of mouse, will bring up a menu like the one shown in the picture. The entries in this menu correspond to the various "toolbar" visible and invisible, and as you have probably realized by this entry can be enabled or disabled. Click on the items "draw" and "modify" to make this toolbar visible. When they appear in the drawing area you can move by clicking and holding the button on its top in blue and drag them (one at a time) on the left side of the screen, at some point you'll see that you will have automatically vertically, then Release the mouse button . In this way, you can customize the interface of the program as desired by activating the toolbar that you use frequently and placing them where you want it, on right, at the top left or above the drawing area etc.