From the course: Learning AutoCAD (2020)

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The status bar

The status bar - AutoCAD Tutorial

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The status bar

- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our interface.dwg file, and what we're going to look at in the AutoCAD interface this time is the status bar. That's located in the bottom-right corner of the AutoCAD application screen, and what it controls is the majority of your drafting settings in AutoCAD. These are the settings that you need to draft accurately, neatly, and timely in your AutoCAD drawings. So let's have a look a little look now at the status bar down there on the bottom-right area of the screen. You'll notice there that we've got various tools that are already switched on. They're the ones that are highlighted in the blue. So you'll notice there that the snap to drawing grid is on. You'll also notice that my polar tracking is on. My object snap tracking is on and my object snaps are on. You'll also notice that my annotation objects is set to always. Now, you can switch all of these different drafting…

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