The translucent navigation bar appears at the right edge of the drawing area. Several buttons that previously appeared on the status bar are relocated here. You can turn off the navigation bar, and can relocate it with the options menu.               the options of the navigation bar         … Read more →

The first fundamental  skill you need is knowing how to open a drawing in autocad. to open a drawing click on the quick access toolbar  and click the open icon and then you can see the select file dialog box where you can navigate through your hard drive to find cad drawings.             Then you … Read more →

Perhaps the most obvious way to select an object in AutoCAD is simply to pick it. Those of you who have used other graphics based utilities will be familiar with this concept. Generally all you have to do is place your cursor over an object, click the mouse button and the object will be selected. To select … Read more →

You can select the last object created by entering L at the “Select objects” prompt.             Object Cycling When drawings become complicated it is sometimes difficult to select the particular object you want because it is either very close to or overlies another object. In such a case it may happen … Read more →

AutoCAD provides two methods for adding and removing objects to and from a selection set. objects from a selection set just as easily by shift picking. If you hold the Shift key down on the keyboard while picking a selected object, that object will be deselected (removed from the current selection set). You can tell when … Read more →

The Layer list displays the drawing’s layers. Using this list, you can switch the current layer, assign selected objects to a layer, turn layers on and off, freeze layers, and lock layers.   you can add new layers, delete layers from the layers menu. If you  need to draw things separately you can add separate layer  for  different … Read more →