- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying
in our interface.dwg file.
And what we're going to look at now,
is what we touched on a little bit in the previous video.
We're going to take a look at our status bar
in the bottom-right corner
of your AutoCAD application window
So you can see there, down here,
we've got various icons sort of up in blue.
That indicates that that particular drafting setting is on.
So for example, if I look here,
you can see that my snap drawing grid is on.
We don't really need that.
We're not using a drawing grid at this point.
So what I'll do is I'll just switch that off
and it goes gray.
Dynamic Input, we talked about the previous video
so we can leave that one on.
Orthographic or ORTHOMODE should be off.
Polar Tracking is on.
You'll notice here ISODRAFT is off.
We don't need that either at the moment.
Object Snap Tracking should really always be on
as should your Object Snaps.
And again, we're going to cover
all of the functionality of these later on in the course,
but as you can see, there are certain ones
I have switched on all the time that are blue.
Now, like I said, we've got our workspace here as well.
Remember our workspaces that we talked about earlier?
They're there as well,
but as we move along, we've got a few others.
Annotation Monitor is off.
You don't need to worry about that at all
in this particular course.
Isolate Objects,
we don't need to worry about that right now either.
We're going to cover that later on in the course.
You'll also notice that this is a TrustedDWG file
hence the little green tick there.
Last but not least, we have a thing called clean screen.
It's a variable in AutoCAD at the moment.
It's off.
But what it does,
is it gets rid of all your ribbon, your command line,
your status bar, and leaves you just with a drawing area.
My suggestion is don't click on it,
not for this course anyway.
Do it after you've done the course.
And as you can see, it is a clean screen variable.
If you click on it by mistake,
all you've got to do is type CLEANSCREEN.
So if I type that in, that comes up.
My typing is terrible today as you can see.
So there you go, you've got CLEANSCREENON, CLEANSCREENOFF.
So if you type it in, it comes up on the suggestion menu.
So CLEANSCREENON, you select it, and it's on.
CLEANSCREENOFF means that clean screen is off.
So you've got the variables there if you need them,
if you click on it by mistake.
Hit Escape a couple of times if you have typed that
just to get rid of your Dynamic Input.
Last but not least, we did on this with the Dynamic Input.
I can click here on the Customization icon.
It brings up my status bar list
of all the functionality that I can have in my status bar.
Suggestion, do not switch it all on at once.
You'll end up with a very packed status bar,
which kind of gets a little bit confusing.
What I will suggest though,
we've already put Dynamic Input on,
there's a couple of others I'd like you to switch on
for this course.
One of them is Coordinates, right there.
So get the little tick next to Coordinates.
And about a third, I dunno, maybe even half of the way down,
you've got LineWeight as well.
So we'll switch on LineWeight, Coordinates,
and if you haven't done it already, Dynamic Input.
Make sure that they're all ticked.
Then we come down here to our little three lines again,
click again, and that loses the Customization menu.
So what you'll notice now,
is we've got Coordinates there that we switched on.
As we move our little mouse around
the crosshair picks up the coordinates.
As we come along,
there's Dynamic Input that we switched on earlier.
And if we come along a little bit further,
there's LineWeight there, the LineWeight display.
Show or Hide LineWeights in your drawing.
Now, if you click on LineWeights,
you'll see that certain lines get bolder
because they have a certain line weight
associated with them.
LineWeight is now blue and on.
If I click on it again on the status bar, it turns it off.
You'll find most of the drafting settings on the status bar.
It's a click to turn them either on or off,
but we will cover a lot of those later on as we work through
this particular AutoCAD essential training course.