From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2020)

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The ribbon and panels

The ribbon and panels - AutoCAD Tutorial

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The ribbon and panels

- [Instructor] We're staying in our interface.dwg file. And what we're going to look at this time in the AutoCAD interface is the ribbon and the panels. We're also going to touch on the Quick Access toolbar and the Info bar at the top of the screen as well. I kind of include those in the ribbon because they sit there with the ribbon in your AutoCAD interface. So as I said we've still got the interface.dwg file open. We're not actually going to do anything with the drawing right now, but in order for the ribbon to be activated so that you get access to all of its tools and commands you do need a DWG file open. So let's have a look at top left of the screen, let's have a look at the Quick Access toolbar. That's over here, and you can see that you've got things like New, Open, Save, Save As, Open from Web & Mobile, Save to Web & Mobile. You've also got Plot, Undo, and Redo. You can also customize the Quick Access toolbar…

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