From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training
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Setting Options - AutoCAD Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD 2024 Essential Training
Setting Options
We're staying in our unitsandoptions.dwg file and we're going to take a look now at how quick and easy it is to set all your different options in AutoCAD as well. Now the drawing itself is kind of superfluous at the moment we're just kind of making sure that we've got a drawing open in AutoCAD so that all the tools are available and not greyed out in any way and sometimes you'll find if you haven't got a drawing open and you're in AutoCAD obviously your scope of doing things is very limited so the drawing itself is kind of superfluous to what we're doing but there are some settings that you can set in your options that allow you to work with your drawings and that's what's really important here. Now the quickest way when you've got a drawing open to get to your options in AutoCAD is literally just to right-click once on the mouse. No command selected, no object selected, just right-click once and it brings up what is called the default right hand mouse button shortcut menu commonly…
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