- We're staying in our interface .dwg file.
And we're going to take a look at the quick access toolbar
in AutoCAD, sometimes known as the QAT.
It's located to the left of the application menu.
So it's up here top left in your AutoCAD application window.
There's your application menu icon.
And here's the quick access tool bar here, these icons.
So you've got things like new,
which creates a blank drawing file obviously.
We've got open, we've got save, we've got save as.
We've also got open from web or mobile,
which we'll cover later,
and we've also got save to web or mobile.
Again, we'll cover that later.
We've also got a quick plot icon there, so I can just click
on that at any time and plot my drawings.
We've also got undo and redo.
We've also got this one here
that looks a bit like an eject symbol on an old CD player
for those of you that are old enough to remember CD players.
So if I click there on the little eject type symbol
that will allow me to customize the quick access toolbar,
so I can add a function to the quick access toolbar
that I want to access quickly and easily all the time.
Something I might need there is my layer dropdown menu
for all of my layers in my AutoCAD drawing.
So I click there,
and you can see now I've got my layer dropdown
on the quick access toolbar should I need it.
If I want to switch it off again,
I just click on the little eject looking symbol there,
and click on layer to untick it and it disappears again.
It's a really useful little feature
being able to customize the quick access toolbar,
'cause I can literally add
any AutoCAD command to it if I want to.
For this particular course,
I'm just going to try and leave it as simple as possible
and leave it set to its default settings.
But it's up to you if you want to add extra commands
and functionality to your AutoCAD quick access toolbar.