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ssss1 My, how you’ve grown: Pressing F2 (on the left side) or Ctrl+F2 (right side) expands the command line to a command text window.
Keeping tabs on palettes
Palettes are refined (well-mannered) versions of dialog boxes. Unlike regular dialog boxes, which insist on your undivided attention while they're open, palettes stay discreetly on the screen as you carry on with other tasks. AutoCAD still has many dialog boxes, but over the past several releases, palettes have replaced quite a few former dialog boxes.
AutoCAD contains more than a dozen palettes (fewer than a dozen in AutoCAD LT). Unless noted otherwise, you can open any of these palettes from the Palettes panel of the View tab. I describe just a few of them, in the appropriate chapters.
Down the main stretch: The drawing area
After you’ve taken some warm-up laps, you’re probably itching for the main event. The AutoCAD drawing area is where you do your drawing. Gee, what a surprise! In the course of creating drawings, you click points to specify locations and distances, click objects to select them for editing, and zoom and pan to get a better view of what you’re working on.