AutoCAD Basics - Section 1

2.9 Palettes

Given the large number of tools available to Autocad, they can also be grouped into windows called Palettes. Tool palettes can be located anywhere on the interface, attached to one of its sides, or kept floating over the drawing area. To activate the tool palettes, we use the "View-Palettes-Tool palettes" button. In that same group you will discover that there are a good number of pallets for different purposes that we will be using.

If you need to have the tools of a floating palette in sight on your drawing, then you may find it interesting that it is transparent.

2.10 The context menu

The context menu is very common in any program. It appears pointing to a certain object and pressing the right mouse button and it is called “contextual” because the options it presents depend both on the object indicated with the cursor, and on the process or command being performed. Observe in the following video the difference between contextual menus when clicking on the drawing area and when pressing with a selected object.

In the case of Autocad, the latter is very clear, since it can be combined very well with the interaction with the command line window. In the creation of circles, for example, you can press the right mouse button to obtain the options corresponding to each step of the command.

Therefore, we can affirm that, once a command has been initiated, the right mouse button can be pressed and what we will see in the context menu are all the options of that same command, as well as the possibility of canceling or accepting (with the option “ Enter ”) the default option.

This is a convenient, even elegant, way to choose without pressing the letter of the option in the command line window.

The reader should explore the possibilities of the contextual menu and add it to their work alternatives with Autocad. Maybe it becomes your main option before typing something in the command line. Maybe, on the other hand, it does not suit you to use it at all, that will depend on your practice when drawing. What is remarkable here is that the contextual menu offers us the available options according to the activity we are doing.

2.11 Workspaces

As we explained in the 2.2 section, in the quick access bar there is a drop-down menu that switches the interface between workspaces. A "Workspace" is actually a set of commands arranged in the ribbon oriented to a specific task. For example, the “2D drawing and annotation” workspace privileges the presence of commands that serve to draw objects in two dimensions and create their corresponding dimensions. The same goes for the “3D Modeling” workspace, which presents the commands to create 3D models, render them, etc. on the ribbon.

Let's say it another way: Autocad has a huge amount of commands on the ribbon and on the toolbars, as we could see. So many that not all fit on the screen at the same time and how, in addition, only some of them are occupied depending on the task that is performed, then, Autodesk programmers have arranged them in what they have called “workspaces”.

Therefore, when selecting a specific workspace, the ribbon presents the set of commands that correspond to it. Therefore, when changing to a new workspace, the tape is also transformed. It should be added that the status bar also contains a button to switch between workspaces.

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  1. It is very good free teaching, and share it with people who do not have enough economy to study the autocad program.

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