From the course: AutoCAD 2017: Migrating from Windows to Mac

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Finder - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial

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Finder

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- [Instructor] I want to take a quick step back for a moment and talk about the operating system itself. If you're switching from AutoCAD for Windows to AutoCAD for MAC, you're obviously switching from Mac to the first time as well, or you've been using a MAC and running AutoCAD virtually and using something like Fusion or Parallels. If you're the former, the MAC operating system is pretty different from the interface you're used to, if you want to learn more about the Mac OS 10 operating system itself, there are a number of great video courses here on Lynda.com. I only want to highlight a specific element we're going to deal with in AutoCAD for MAC, and that is Finder. Finder is just like Explorer for Windows. Both are really the underlying file management applications that we interact with all the time without even knowing it. Every time we open or save a file, every time we look at the desktop, we're using Finder or Explorer. The interface for Finder is very similar to Explorer. We…

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