- [Instructor] Welcome to the AutoCAD 2023 user interface.
For this particular course,
we'll be using the latest version of AutoCAD
which is AutoCAD 2023.
Autodesk tend to release their latest version
of the AutoCAD software towards the end of March each year.
There's no definitive date
because the AutoCAD development guys obviously have things
to bring into the software each year to enhance the software
and make it that little bit better.
So what you're looking at
at the moment is the AutoCAD 2023 user interface.
Now, if you are using an older version of AutoCAD,
that interface may look subtly different.
It might have different colors.
The icons might look slightly different as well.
But what's happened with AutoCAD 2023 is the interface
has been refined over the years to be enhanced for you,
the AutoCAD user.
So as we go through this course in the interface
we're going to be looking at lots of different things.
So for example, up here, top left,
we've got things like the quick access toolbar.
We've got the ribbon here, running along the top
of the screen as well with all the different ribbon panels.
And you can see we've got all different ribbon tabs as well.
You'll also notice
that the icons are really nice and clean now.
Autodesk tidied them up a few versions back to make sure
that they work beautifully on 4K and HDMI monitors.
They've got a really nice look and feel to them now.
Over here you have the info bar you'll notice top right.
And as you come down here, you've got the drawing tabs.
You can see the introduction tab there
and you can also see the drawing area
where there is a 2D floor plan right now.
We'll also touch on things such
as the view cube and the a navigation bar.
Down here we've also got the command line.
The command line is the older legacy method
of inputting commands in AutoCAD
but it's still very, very useful.
And down at the bottom of the user interface
we've got our tabs here.
We've got the model tab.
We've also got things such as layout tabs as well
which we'll cover during this course.
And last but not least right down here, bottom right,
we've got what is known as the status bar
with all of our drafting setting icons.
Again, we'll be talking about that
as we go through the course.