Chapter 1 Getting Started
1-1 Introduction
The figure on the previous page shows the initial AutoCAD drawing screen. It will appear when the program is first accessed.
To Start a New Drawing
Click the arrowhead in the Get Started box on the Welcome screen.
A listing of available templates will appear on the Select template dialog box. See Figure 1-1. Various templates will be used throughout the text, but for a start, we will use the acad.dwt template. The acad.dwt template defines inches as its primary units.
Figure 1-1
Click acad.dwt ...
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