AutoCAD Tips

Some people may miss the MENUBAR from the “classic” setup. In the MENUBAR, there are many goodies that will save you time from searching all over the ribbon.
To turn on the menubar:
In the command line;
MENUBAR <enter> 1 <enter>

TASKBAR
At the bottom of the screen when AutoCAD is open, there is an Icon that shows that AutoCAD is currently running. If you have multiple drawings open at the same time, it is easy to navigate from one drawing to another by turning on the TASKBAR in AutoCAD.
Windows 7, however, compared to Windows XP doesn’t show each drawing in their own icon with the drawing name. It just shows that their are multiple drawings open.
To turn on the taskbar:
In the command line;
TASKBAR <enter> 1 <enter>

Sick of guessing what these mean????

AutoCAD decided to turn the “Drafting Settings buttons” at the bottom of the screen from words into “icons.” I’m sure they did this to free up some space in the Status Bar. They problem that I have seen is that they are not very clear as to what these icons mean. So what I see people doing when I tutor them is that they hover their mouse over these icons until the words appear, then they choose the needed button.

To save time:
* Right click any of these “icons” and uncheck “Use Icons” (as seen below)

You should now see the icons displayed as words as seen below.

YEAH !!!!!!!