The first thing you may see after starting AutoCAD is the application menu, which is located in the upper left corner. In AutoCAD, it usually contains a big red "A". Other products usually have different colors and letters. When you click this button, the menu will drop down, which contains some of the same items in QAT and more. Perhaps more importantly, the application menu contains links to the graphs and graph sets you have recently visited. You can change it to the currently open drawing list by clicking the button.
2. Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)
Next to the title bar area at the top of the UI is the Quick Access Toolbar or QAT. By default, QAT contains icons for the following commands: Qnew, Open, QSave, SaveAs, Plot, Undo and Redo. But like most other UI elements, you can customize this element to meet your needs. Below is the stock QAT, highlighting its position.
3. Same
Ribbon is a UI tool that first appeared in AutoCAD 2009. It contains various commands organized into tabs and panels. Administrators and end users can customize it. Context tabs are very powerful. They are displayed with command and option panels that are related to any task at hand and/or any entity type selected. For example, if a hatch object is selected, a context tab containing shadow editing commands is automatically displayed.
4. Elements in the editor
You can find some elements in the drawing editor and display them in the default position in the following figure. The user can control the visibility of each of them. The viewport control is located in the upper left corner, allowing you to change the view and visual style. The Viewcube is located in the upper right corner, where you can change the view and UCS. Directly below is NavBar, which provides you with zoom, translation, orbital motion and other controls. Finally, in the lower left corner, there is a UCS icon, which can tell at a glance whether you are in the general direction of WCS and/or UCS.
5. Status bar
Move to the bottom of the application and you will find the status bar. Starting from AutoCAD 20 15, the status bar only contains icons. By default, multiple icons are not enabled, so you may need to turn them on. We believe Autodesk will do this, because on a small display, all icons may not fit in one line. However, if necessary, these icons will be included in the second line. You can enable all status bar icons with the resolution of 1920× 1080 on any display of suitable size at present, which is very suitable.
6. Layout tab
The Layout tab provides access to model space and every layout in a given document. Left-click the tab to make it the current option, and then right-click the tab to access more options, such as printing, moving, or renaming. There is always a label with a plus sign to create a new layout. By default, the layout tab is located at the bottom of the editor window, or below the status bar area if the command line is docked.
7. Shortcut menu
By default, if there is no active command, right-click in the graphic editor and a shortcut menu will appear. This pop-up menu contains recently used commands and other commonly used commands. You can customize this menu just like most other UI items. If the command is active, different menus may appear when you right-click. This behavior is controlled by the shortcut menu system variable.
8. Drop-down menu
Since Windows became a platform, drop-down or drop-down menus appeared long before AutoCAD began. The top-level clickable name displays the following commands and/or submenus. These commands support macros and even autolisp statements. When a command is selected and/or the menu loses input focus, the menu disappears. By default, the drop-down menu is not enabled.
9. Toolbar
Toolbars can be traced back to1AutoCAD in the early 1990s. These are flat panel displays that contain buttons and/or drop-down lists. Each button contains an icon and a macro for executing the command or macro. Toolbars can float or dock.
10, palette
Various color palettes are provided in AutoCAD. Palette is a special window that can be docked, floated and folded when not in use. You can work with graphic data on the screen without closing the color palette. Most color palettes support transparency (with appropriate hardware support) to allow them to remain on the screen during AutoCAD commands.
1 1, command line
The command line is a palette where you can type command names and/or command responses and view their history. If the command line is docked, it has a fixed number of visible lines. If necessary, you can expand the floating command line panel to display more data. In both cases, the F2 key will open/close a larger command line history window.
12, tool palette
The tool palette contains buttons for inserting blocks, executing commands, and creating shadows. It is only used to name a few projects. Users can customize the content freely.
13, Graph Set Manager
The Drawing Set Manager is a tool that allows you to organize tables, simplify printing and archiving, and automatically label drawings for other purposes. Quick View of Drawing Before the File tab, there is a quick view of the drawing. Although it is no longer enabled as a UI element by default, you can still run this command (command: QVD) from the command line. It displays a miniature preview of each open document and allows you to switch to another document. When the mouse hovers over the document preview, the layout of the graph will be displayed, allowing you to switch directly to the selected layout.
14, quick view of layout
As an alternative to the layout tab, the quick view of layout suffered the same fate as the quick view of graphics. In other words, it is still a part of the software, but it is hidden. This command (QVL) displays a miniature preview of all layouts of the currently open document. Hover over the preview to enable printing options, or click an option to switch to the layout.
15, Information Center
Since its launch, the information center has undergone some iterations and name changes. It is located in the title bar area, to the left of the Windows control button. It contains a help search bar, Autodesk A360 login, social media links and a help drop-down menu. Information center is related to too many "calling headquarters" and is often disabled and hidden by many CAD administrators. There is no UI method to control the visibility of this element, and it must be done in the registry, or use a third-party plug-in (such a method). The following are the default InfoCenter columns.
16, screen menu
On-screen menu can be traced back to the beginning of AutoCAD on DOS and UNIX. On-screen menus consist of nested menus. Clicking an item usually replaces the contents of the on-screen menu with another menu until you find a specific command. There is always a choice of background and/or family. Most people don't know that it still exists in AutoCAD 20 18. To access it, you must know the password.
17, image tile menu
Last but not least, unless you have a history of about 20 years, you may never have seen an image tiled menu. We can actually use one in AutoCAD 20 18, as shown below. These largely depend on the tool palette and design center in AutoCAD 2000 era.