From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2021)
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The status bar - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2021)
The status bar
- [Instructor] Once again, we're in our interface.DWG file, and this time, as part of the AutoCAD interface, we're going to take a look at the status bar. Now, the status bar is bottom right of your AutoCAD screen. It's all these little icons down here. Now, all of these icons allow you to control all your different drafting settings in AutoCAD. So for example, you'll notice here, this is highlighted in blue, letting me know that my polar tracking's on. My object snap tracking is on, 'cause it's highlighted in blue. If I click on it, it's off. Click on it again, it's off. So they're little toggles to control all of your drafting settings within AutoCAD. Now, we do cover some of those further on in the course, and if you work through some of the deeper dive AutoCAD courses in the library, you'll find that the status bar is used often and regularly. Now, you can see here that some of them are on, some of them are off.…
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