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Using the AutoCAD ribbon and panels

Using the AutoCAD ribbon and panels - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Using the AutoCAD ribbon and panels

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in the interface.dwg file. Now, what we're going to look at now in a bit more depth is the AutoCAD ribbon and the AutoCAD ribbon panels. What I'd like you to do is make sure you're in the Home tab on the ribbon. See we've got all the different tabs. Jump to each tab, you can see it has lots of different functionality within AutoCAD itself. Let's just go to the Home tab where it's got all what I call the base-level workflows and processes, such as Draw, Modify, Annotation, Layers, et cetera. Now, what we're going to take a look at is the ribbon and the ribbon panels. Now, you may click accidentally on this icon up here. Can you see the little sort of arrow there? There's a little dropdown arrow next to it. Now, be very careful with this, because if you click on it, you'll find that your ribbon changes format. And if you click on it again, changes format again. If you click on it again, it disappears entirely, almost. If you click on it again…

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