From the course: AutoCAD Architecture 2021 Essential Training
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The command line - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Architecture 2021 Essential Training
The command line
- Once again, we're staying in our trusty Floor Plan.dwg file. I've left it in the same state as it was at the end of the last video in our Southwest isometric when we talked about our drawing area. Now at the bottom of the drawing area, we have our command line, which is a throwback to the old legacy versions of AutoCAD. I started on a version of AutoCAD that was in MS Dos. That was pre-Windows. Before we had Windows as an operating system. And the way that we obviously generated and executed all of our commands was via the command line. We had to type them down here, like so. So I type line like that. L I N E and then I'd press enter, and that would start the line command. And as you can see, it's now asking me to specify the first point in the command line. Now, one of the benefits you do have, I've just hit escape there to cancel the line command by the way, is that, in the command line now you can click on…
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