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Because of the way that AutoCAD was developed, you usually have four or five ways to invoke a command, primarily by using the Ribbon, keyboard entry, toolbars, the menu bar, and right-click menus. Throughout this book, I focus on the Ribbon and direct keyboard entry because the other methods, from earlier releases, aren’t necessarily turned on in recent releases of AutoCAD.

The illustrations and descriptions in this chapter and throughout the book show the default configuration of the AutoCAD 2023 Drafting & Annotation workspace. That is, I show the way the screen looks when you use the standard version of AutoCAD and not a flavored version, such as AutoCAD Architecture or AutoCAD Mechanical. The main change I make in this book from AutoCAD’s default settings is to configure the drawing area background to be white because the figures show up better in print. The default background color in both AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT is dark gray, but many longtime users prefer a pure black background for less glare but this is much less of an issue with today’s LCD flat-panel displays. You may want to set a black or a white background on your own system or stay with the default gray background. It’s your choice, and there’s no right or wrong way. Some AutoCAD object colors show up better on a light background, and some are better on a black one.