Also here you've got what they call the Show Motion, which is an onscreen display and allows you basically to take photo shots of particular episodes in your drawing, allowing you to flick back frame by frame on what you were doing or have done. We'll look at 3D in a little bit more detail later. We've also got Pan and we've also got Zoom Extents and we've also got Orbits, allowing you to make that move into 3D so you can do 3D Orbits and also the Navigation Wheel allows you to work in 3D as well. I won't go into too much detail here but what you've got there is what they call a Navigation Wheel. Now, over here on the right we have a new Navigation Bar. So you can still work in Isometric views and 3D views, even though you're in a 2D Drafting environment. Notice the work space at the top currently is 2D Drafting and Annotation. So, that's our View Cube in a 2D drafting environment. I'm just going to pan that now and bring that back roughly central on the screen. If I click on the Top section of the View Cube it takes me back to the Top view of my line there. If I move over the UCS Icon there you can see, look, Zed is blue, Y is green, X is red. You can see the X and Y there, are the red and the green, and the Zed is the blue. And, as you can see, the crosshairs are now in an Isometric setting. However, if I click on one of the corners of the View Cube like so it then goes into an isometric view, like that. Now at the moment I'm in a Top view looking down on my.-line here. Now, we have some new tools available to us which are especially suitable for architects. I'll just Cancel that and Cancel the Options dialog. If I right-click on the Shortcut Menu there and go to Options, if I then go to the Display tab here and click on Colors and select Uniform Background in 2D model space, 33, 40, 48. This is actually an RGB Default Background where red is 33, green is 40 and blue is 48, hence RGB and that's the color settings. Older versions of AutoCAD it was just black or white. So now I'm working with this gray screen, you'll notice, the background is different. Also, that negates the use of the GRID so I can switch the GRID off here as well. Now, if I turn SNAP off and click on it here you'll notice, look, the crosshair is in free-flow and so are the coordinates in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen. Can you see that? Read the coordinates, bottom left corner of the screen and you can see they're moving exactly in increments of 10, which is the default Snap Setting in AutoCAD 2011. That's because it's snapping to each square on the grid. So when I move around on the screen you'll notice the crosshair is jerky. Now, default settings in AutoCAD 2011 are the SNAP and GRID, here on the Drafting settings, are switched on. So, that's the Icons on the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen. So if I now right-click on an Icon and click on Use Icons again the words come back on the buttons, which is the setting I personally prefer, but I'm also going to utilize throughout this course to make your life easier so that you know what each button does. That's the default setting when you first open up AutoCAD 2011.
If I right-click on a button and click on Use Icons, you'll see that I've got the Icons there, like so. The default setting in AutoCAD is like this. Secondly, though, I've got it set to words like that so that when I point out a drafting setting to you, you can easily read it on the button.
I like the words on my buttons like older versions of AutoCAD. That's because I like those words on there and I'm a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to AutoCAD. You may notice down here on the Status Bar at the bottom of the screen that I've got words on my Drafting Setting buttons here. So, let's have a look now at AutoCAD 2011.
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Then in section 2 we'll move into the new features and start looking at how architects can utilize those new features to draw effectively, efficiently and create professional drawings.
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In this particular movie we're going to look at what's new in AutoCAD and have a brief introduction into what's new in AutoCAD as well.
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