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AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................. .......
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Introduction You can dramatically increas e your productivit y with AutoCAD LT ® software, the world’s number-one-selling 2D drafting and detailing pro duct.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 2. Menu Browser button The Menu Browser displays a vertical list of the menus, emulating the m enus that traditionally ran horizontal ly across the top of the AutoCAD LT window.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 4. Menu Browser search tool In addition to providing command acc ess, the Menu Brow ser enables you to view and access recent or ope n documents.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement When viewing recently used docume nts in the Menu Browser, you can display them i n an ordered list or group them by date or file type.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 7. Menu Browser right-click menu options Quick Access T oolbar The Quick Access toolbar is displaye d at the top of the AutoCAD LT window, next to the Menu Browser.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 9. InfoCenter Ribbon The Ribbon, displa yed near the top of the AutoCAD LT window, provides eas y access to AutoCAD LT tools through a collection of tabs and pan el s.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 11. Ribbon right-click menu You can also emulate Dashboard be havior by undocki ng the Ribbon and anchoring it to the left or right. Figure 12.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 14. Status bar toggles The right-click menus for some Status bar toggles incl ude additional controls relevant for that particu lar toggle.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 16. Status bar tools Quick Properties The Quick Properties panel enab les you to view and modif y object properties when you need them, without sacrificing screen real estate.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 18. Quick Properties location modes The Settings option provides additional controls for the Quick Properties window through a ne w Quick Properties tab in the Drafting Settings dialog box.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement If multiple objects are selected, the Quick Properties window behaves similarl y to the familiar Properties window, displaying onl y the properties that are common to all selected obje cts.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 22. Edit Object Type list Quick V iew Layout s The Quick View Layouts button on the status bar displays a horizontal row of Quick View Layout images.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 23. Quick View Layout images Passing the cursor over a layout previe w displays Plot and Publish buttons in the upper corners of the image.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement You can right-click a layout pr eview to display the fa mi liar Layout menu options, including access to the Page Setup Manager. A new option in the right-clic k menu enable s you to export layout geometr y to model space in a new drawing.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 26. Quick View Drawings images Passing the cursor over a drawing previe w displays Save and Close buttons in the u pper corners of the imag e, enabling you to quickl y save or close any o pen drawing, not just the current one.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement When you hover the cursor over a Quick Vie w Drawings image, previe ws of all the layouts in that dra wing, including model space, are d isplayed above t he drawing images in a separate image bar.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 29. Tooltip help In addition to using command tools, you can control the content displa yed in the tooltips for the External References palette.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 30.Tooltip styles If you pass the cursor over an item in the External References palette, you can quickly preview the dra wing geometry and detail informati on wi thout selecting the item.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement select an option that hides a particular message, fo r example, Al ways Close the Command Line Windo w, AutoCAD LT stores it in a list of hidden mess ages.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 34. Layer Properties Manager Layer Isolate controls have been add ed to the Layer Sett.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 36. DGN Export You can now control the layer visibility of attached DGN files by selecting th e DGN Layer option from the right- click menu when a DGN attachment is selected.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 38. DGN mappings DWFx Support AutoCAD LT 2009 includes supp ort for DWFx, which is a DWF format that is compliant with Microsoft's XML Paper Specification (XPS) format.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 39. DWFx file format Xref Clipping You can now use grips to edit the boundar y of a clippe d external refer ence. Ensure the XCLIPFRAME s ystem variable is set to 1, and then select the clipped xref a nd grab a grip.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Interactive Array Preview When you prev iew an array of objects using t he Arra y command, you can pan, z oom, and navigate the m odel before accepting the ne wly arrayed obje cts.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 42. Geographic Location opti ons The new GEOLATLONGFORMAT system variable enable s you.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 44. Rewind tool Image References AutoCAD LT 2009 includes the abi lity to attach images to a drawing as externall y referenced files.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 46. Image Adjust dialog box Nonrect angular V iewport s AutoCAD LT 2009 offers more control over the dis pla y of layout vie wports by enabling you to create nonrectangular viewports.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Figure 48. Examples of nonrectangular vie wports Full Color and Color Book support In AutoCAD LT 2009 you hav e more flexibility when it comes to specifying colors.
AUTOCAD LT 2009 PREVIEW GUIDE www.autodesk.com/autocadlt Confidential–Subject to Nondisclosure Agreement Fields AutoCAD LT 2009 software enab les you to create fields in your dra wings. Fields, which can be inserted in text, attributes, or tables, read data from various sources and then automatically update to refle ct changes to the data.
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