Entries from September 2008 ↓

The new, empty toolbar is displayed. You can now add tools to the toolbar (see “Modifying Toolbars”). You can also create new toolbars by dragging a toolbar button from the Customize Toolbars dialog box to the AutoCAD window. A new toolbar is displayed with the button. For more information, see chapter 4, “Custom Menus,” in the Customization Guide.
Command line  TOOLBAR
Shortcut menu  Right-click a toolbar and choose Customize.

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This is a continuation of the previous tutorial I started in this post >> AutoCAD for Dummies: How to Draw a Circle. In that post I explained the very simple way to draw the circle on AutoCAD. This time there are other ways to draw it using the 3P (Draws a circle based on three points on the circumference.), 2P (Draws a circle based on two points on the circumference.), TTR (tangent tangent radius – draws a circle based on the tangent of the two objects either lines or arcs and you should specify the radius of the circle).

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To create a new toolbar, you first create an empty toolbar, and then drag buttons onto the new toolbar from the Customize Toolbars dialog box or from other toolbars.

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The copy command seems the simplest command on your computer. Because most windows application have the same copy command style but in autocad, there is a slight difference. Maybe on other graphics software they have their own style of copy command. in Autocad, there are two major types of copy command, one is within the software and the other is the OLE or Object Linking and Embedding which can  be pasted from other applications like for example, Photoshop into Autocad (will elaborate on later post). The copy command within the program only copies the object inside the black screen like circles, lines, arcs or polygons and can only be pasted there. The other one is where you can copy from Autocad and export it and paste it on other application as raster image.

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You can change the size of toolbar buttons and reposition, add, or delete toolbar buttons. You can also change the toolbar name and turn tooltips on and off.

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