Autocad Screen introduction

Auto Cad is a unique software used for drafting. Cad is abbreviation of Computer aided design. This software is design and developed by American Company "Autodesk". Its first version was released in 1982.

Graphical Window - Screen Environment

1: Title Bar

Top bar of the screen of any software is called title bar. It consists of three common tab like close,maximize and minimize.

2: Menu Bar / Drop down List

It consists of Menu and is placed down the title bar. It belongs to the fundamentals of the autocad software.

3: Standard Tool Bar

It is the most common tool bar of every software which have the options like saving,cutting, copping and pasting of the files.

4: Object Property Tool Bar

This bar is related to the object properties like creating layers,changing the color etc of the object.

5: Modify Tool Bar

It is used to change the Drawing elements.

6: Draw Tool Bar

It is the most basic bar of the autocad used to draw primary units. Modify and Draw tool bar are placed in the left sides but you can change there positions.

7: Object snap Tool Bar

This tool bar is basically use to snap the object from the edges,center of the line and snap the round shapes from its center point.

8: Dimension Tool Bar

 This bar is used to Take the dimension of the object or drawings.Both object snap and dimension tool bars are situated at the right side of the graphical window.

9: Drawing Area

The main screen of making a drawing is called drawing area.Its colors are different according the version of the software. In 2004 version its color is black and in 2007 version its color is gray, but you can change its color as well. It consists of Cross Hair cursor and UCS (user coordinate system) icon.

10: Modify and layout tabs

These tab are placed with the horizontal scroll bar, used to plot the drawing.

11; Command Prompt

Its the most important and back bone element of the graphical window. Many  People do not follow the instructions shown in this prompt. Carefully follow step by step after entering the commands.

12: Status Bar

This bar indicates the positions of the all axis such as x for horizontal, y for vertical and z for 3d.

Status bar also have supporting tabs like snap,ortho,grid and polar etc tabs, which are helpful for creating smooth drawings.