INTRODUCTION TO AUTOCAD
"WORKSPACE COMPONENTS"

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Basically, AutoCAD is used in industry, by architects, project managers, engineers, graphic designers, city planners, and other professionals. It is available in 3 variants i.e Autocad LT, Autocad 360 and student version.AutoCAD LT is lowcost product its license is cheaper than  Autodesk 360 and used by small scale...oh oh!! wait you can find all these kinds of stuff in Wikipedia so I am not going to tell these things in this post if you really interested you can refer 👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoCAD

let's dig into the main content of our blog "WORKSPACE COMPONENTS"

Our main war place looks like this 👇



Or maybe like this 👇




Hey, don't worry about these two types of appearance whatever the appearance that doesn't affect your work. AutoCAD has a bunch of commands by knowing commands you can use AutoCAD as a pro.

WORKSPACE COMPONENT


The workspace consists of a drawing window with ribbon, tool palettes, and other controls that you use to set up an architectural project, create your design, and generate construction documents.

In the following sections, each component of the workspace is described in detail. Components can be turned off and on for different workspaces, depending on your requirements.


APPLICATION MENU.

The application menu contains commands that are relevant for the drawing as a whole.



  • Create new drawings and projects
  • Open drawing files, project files, DGN files, and IFC files
  • Save drawings to the current file format, to AutoCAD 2007 file format, as DWT file, or as DWS file
  • Export files to DGN, DWF, PDF, IFC, gBXML, and DuctXML formats, and previous versions of AutoCAD
  • Plot drawings
  • Publish drawings to Map Guide, DWF, PDF, Seek, and eTransmit
  • Access drawing setup and drawing utilities
  • Access the program options
  • Close drawings and projects
  • Exit AutoCAD Architecture toolset

RIBBON.
The ribbon is the central location for accessing commands in AutoCAD Architecture toolset. The ribbon is organized into tabs that reflect common tasks in the drawing process. There are 2 types of tabs:

  • Static tabs are available regardless of which objects are selected in the drawing area. The commands on these tabs were previously located on the menus and toolbars.
Static Home tab
  • Contextual tabs display depending on the object selected in the drawing area. When you select a door, a contextual tab for doors is displayed. The commands on the contextual tabs reflect the commands on the context menu of an object.
Contextual tab for door objects

To display the ribbon if it is not displayed in your workspace, or has been closed, enter ribbon on the command line. 
You can use the  button at the right of the tab names to modify the appearance of the ribbon as follows:

  • To display only the tab names as titles, click  (Minimize to Tabs).
  • To display only the panel titles of the ribbon tabs, click  (Minimize to Panel Titles) at the top right of the ribbon
  • To display only the panel buttons, click  again (Minimize to Panel Buttons).
  • To redisplay the full ribbon, click  a fourth time (Show Full Ribbon).
COMMAND LINE.
 The Command window accepts command and system variable input and displays prompts that guide you through the command sequence.
Command line 
Sometime's it doesn't appear in the screen then tou can make it appear 
You can hide or unhide Command line by pressing Ctrl+9 or
Command to hide command line: Commandlinehide
Command to unhide Command line: Commandlinehide

QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR.


To be continued....