From the course: AutoCAD 2026 Essential Training
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The AutoCAD 2026 intro - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2026 Essential Training
The AutoCAD 2026 intro
- [Instructor] In this video, you can see that we have AutoCAD open on the screen. And as you can see, we've also got a drawing open in AutoCAD. This drawing is called Introduction.dwg, and it's one of those exercise files that you can download from the library to follow along with this particular video. Now, the reason I've got an AutoCAD drawing open is purely just to give you a quick breakdown of the AutoCAD interface. Now, the AutoCAD interface is very, very consistent, it has been for the last few versions of AutoCAD, so it should look the same as the interface that you are using when you are working through this particular course. Now, I'm just going to give you a quick heads up of where everything is. Top left of the screen, you can see the red A. Now that will open up the AutoCAD application menu. Just along here you can see some icons. This is known as the Quick Access Toolbar. Going across to the right here, this is known as the info bar where you can type a keyword or…
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