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A Simple Setup
In this chapter, I walk you through the steps to create, edit, view, and plot a new drawing. See Figure 3-1 to get an idea of what the finished product looks like. I use Imperial units in this chapter (you know — inches and feet, for example). I describe how to set imperial units versus metric units in ssss1.
In the following exercise, you use several of the status bar buttons at the bottom of the screen. I don’t like the icons that AutoCAD displays, and I grew bored from hovering the mouse cursor over each button until the tooltip appeared. Earlier versions of AutoCAD allowed us to switch from icons to text mode, wherein each button had a text label instead of an icon. Unfortunately, AutoCAD no longer supports this feature, so I have to refer to each button by its tooltip description along with the relevant icon in the margin. The good news is that you can toggle ten of those settings by using the F keys (such as F3), which I reference in the text in parentheses, as in (F3).