- [Instructor] We're staying in our units
and options.DWG file.
See, we're using the same floor plan drawing
that we used in the last video.
Now we talked about units in the last video.
We're going to talk about options now.
Now the quickest way to get
to your AutoCAD options is really easy.
Make sure you've got no object selected
no commands running right click
and on the shortcut menu that pops up
go down to the bottom and select options.
What'll happen is the options dialogue box kicks in.
And as you can see there, lots of different tabs
along the top of the screen there can you see
as we go along all those different tabs
going along there like so.
Now the thing is with this is a lot
of these you will never, ever change.
And while I remember as well
I'm using full AutoCAD rather than AutoCAD LT.
So some of these tabs will not be there
if you are using AutoCAD LT.
I'm not going to go into too much depth there
because a lot of the things you want don't change.
I just want to point out a couple
of things that you should have up and running
in your options in AutoCAD.
And again, it's up to you with this as well.
You can decide on what you want to change and not change.
It's your AutoCAD at the end of the day.
But one of the ones that I will suggest that you change here
in the files tab is your automatic save file location.
So you notice mine is pointing
to a good old temp folder on my C drive
that's because I use this particular computer purely
for my LinkedIn learning recording work.
So there's no actual live client drawings
or anything on this machine.
So I'm not too worried about losing a drawing.
I can go and get it again.
I've got it all stored in the cloud
all my training exercises, everything else.
However, your automatic safe file location
should really point to a location
remote from your hard drive on your computer.
It should point to a network drive
possibly a cloud drive so that when you do do an auto safe
the automatically safe file is somewhere else
other than the C drive a physical hard drive
on your computer.
That's purely because your computer might die on you.
It might crash.
It might go wrong.
You might get a power outage, something like that.
And then you know that an automatically save file
is saved elsewhere.
You can jump on AutoCAD
on another computer and continue you working.
Always a good thing, always a good backup to have.
Moving along to the display tab now,
what we've got here is various display settings.
I rarely change any of these from the default.
You do have a color theme.
You have a dark or a light color theme.
I prefer dark, which is what we're running.
If you want to change any of the colors
on your AutoCAD screen
they're all in there on the colors button.
Again, I rarely change those unless
I'm working in a context where I might need to.
So I might make my background here
in the drawing area, white.
If I was creating a physical hard copy training manual
or a PDF to show instructions
for how to run something in AutoCAD,
the rest of the time I leave it all set
at the default settings.
Notice you can restore everything if you need to,
you can restore all your colors here
in the colors, drawing window box here
like so, I'm just going to click on cancel.
Now going back to opening and saving.
We talked about our automatic
save file location a moment ago.
So you'll notice here I save back
to 2013 DWG files automatically when I click on save.
Now, the reason for that is to make sure
that people with older versions
of AutoCAD can take this AutoCAD essential training course
but it's this bit here
I want you to be aware of the file safety precautions.
So when you do that automatic save
that you set the location for already.
This is all the settings that make sure
that that file goes to where it should.
So we've got automatic save on
with 10 minute between the saves,
we've got create backup copy
with each save ticked as well.
So when it does an automatic save
it saves what is known as an AC dollar file.
You can see that file extension in the box there, like so
and we've also got 10 minutes between each one.
I'll just untick that
because I don't want CRC validation kicking in.
That's a cyclic redundancy check.
So what that checks is a hardware issue perhaps
on your hard drive.
Now it also creates a BIK file, a backup copy,
which is that tick box there create backup copy
with each save.
That's really useful.
So every time you do an auto save
you get a .BIK and .AC dollar.
The backup copy is the one that basically
creates a backup file when you save.
The AC dollar is an incremental save
to that location for your automatic file, save as well.
So useful, really, really useful
that you've got those two set up.
Last but not least.
One more thing that want you to check
is in your selection tab really important.
When it comes to selecting objects before a command
you want noun verb selection only, should be ticked.
And normally it is by default.
Anyway, it's normally ticked anyway.
And also we're going to be talking
about how we use the lasso command as well,
press and drag for lasso as well or lasso
sometimes people call it as well.
That's a default on tick box as well.
So just be aware of that.
And last but not least, when we start working with grips
you can see there show grips is ticked,
but do not show grips within blocks.
All of these can be shown,
but if you start showing in grips within complicated blocks,
you're going to have little blue grips everywhere
and you won't be able to see the wood for the trees.
So make sure that show grips within blocks is unticked
and all the other settings can remain the same
in this particular tab in the options.
Once you've got all that set up,
it's just a case of clicking on okay.
You don't need to click on apply
because when you click on okay,
it does an apply and okay
you might do an apply like that
and then go to perhaps a different tab for example
but then you can click on okay like that.
And that closes the option dialogue box.
It's that quick and easy.
Now the options dialogue box
you shouldn't really need to be going in and out
of it all the time set those settings that I've mentioned
and anything else you can do on an as needed basis.