From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training

Working with the file tabs - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training

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Working with the file tabs

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We're starting a new chapter now and we're going to take a brief look at using the AutoCAD interface a little further and for that reason we've got a new drawing for you for this chapter it's called ground floor plan underscore REV3. Just make sure you've downloaded the appropriate drawing open it up in AutoCAD and make sure you're in the model tab for this particular chapter. Now when I say investigate the AutoCAD interface a little further there are some new features available in the latest version of AutoCAD, AutoCAD 2024 and that's the version I'm using for this particular course. Now some of the technology I'm going to show you works with older versions of AutoCAD but also I'll clarify which bits are specific to AutoCAD 2024. So we're going to take a look at the tabs in AutoCAD. Now these are the file tabs and we're also going to touch on the model and layout tabs a little bit as well but it's predominantly the file tabs. Now you'll notice we have a file open in AutoCAD obviously and you'll see the file tab here ground floor plan rev 3. I want to hover over it you can see it's a great big long file path please ignore that that is just basically where the files are for this particular course but you'll notice look when I hover over the model tab hover over the layout tab hover over the layout to tab can you see they're all there when I hover over them and can you see the tabs at the bottom left of the screen change as I hover over them as well so the file tabs are incredibly useful notice as well I can plot and I can publish from any of these tabs there's plot and there's publish for each one so if I click on the ISO A1 landscape it automatically takes me to the layout tab down here there you go ISO A1 landscape and I can then click on the model tab and I'm back in the model tab again so that's the file tabs now there are some other little bits of technology there as well you'll notice there's a plus sign if I hover over that that will allow me to open up a nude blank drawing using a standard blank template and I can also go back to the start tab whenever you start up AutoCAD you get the start tab like that where you can go to recent files you can open files start new files etc you can also see here where it says welcome Sean I'm signed into my Autodesk account with my email address because that allows me to use my subscription version of AutoCAD. Let's go back to the ground floor plan rev3 tab like so. Now that's all the technology that you get in all of your versions of AutoCAD going way back. Now there is some functionality on the tabs now that is 2024 specific and it's these little three lines here that highlight in blue when I hover over them and these little three lines here that highlight in blue when I hover over them. So for file tabs it's a really useful one when I click on the three lines I can go to the start tab or my drawing tab as we did earlier notice it highlights again I can start a new drawing which relates to this here I can also go new open save all and close all if I want to so it's quite a nice little feature and I can just hit escape there to lose that menu down here with the model and layout tabs if I click on the little three lines again I've got a new menu in AutoCAD 2024 I can create a new layout which is also the little plus sign here I can go from template I can go into page setup manager select all of my layouts I can also dock above the status bar and in line with the status bar for my tabs here and I've got model ISO A1 landscape and layout 2 so if I click on ISO A1 landscape it opens up the ISO A1 landscape layout tab and then I click on the model tab and I'm back in the model tab again. Now these little tabs might seem fairly insignificant but you will be using them on a day-to-day basis where you're using your drawings in AutoCAD.

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