Wiley AutoCAD: Professional Tips and Techniques 978-0-470-08454-0 User Manual
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This chapter’s techniques are
organized into the following topics:
organized into the following topics:
a
Tweaking Windows
a
Finding Help
a
Using Workspaces
a
Organizing the Interface
a
Inputting with the Keyboard and Mouse
1
Arranging the AutoCAD
User Interface
User Interface
UI — THE USER INTERFACE
—
is
an acronym that is thrown
around a lot. Just for a moment, don’t think of it as
just those two letters. The UI is what comes between
you (the user) and it (the essentially incomprehen-
sible computer). The UI lets you interact with the
inner workings of the machine, ideally in an intuitive
fashion.
Unlike an automobile with a manual transmission,
whose stick-shift and clutch are parts of its perma-
nent UI, your computer’s UI is highly customizable.
You don’t like a stick-shift? Click here, and you have
an automatic.
The AutoCAD UI is important. Many people gloss over
it, thinking the real meat is in using tools and getting
the job done. That may be so, but if you’re ever going
to enjoy the dining experience, you need to pay atten-
tion to how you access and work with the tools.
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