From the course: AutoCAD: Mechanical Toolset

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Drafting Settings dialog box

Drafting Settings dialog box

- As usual, we're an AutoCAD Mechanical 2023 and I want to talk to you now about your drafting settings in your AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset. Now, your Drafting Settings are located in the status bar down at the bottom right hand corner of your AutoCAD screen. They're down here like so, there they all are there. Now, one of the things I will say before we get into anything else on the Drafting Settings, if you click here on these little three lines, that brings up the Customization menu. Now, there's loads of stuff in there that you might want to use. Don't switch it all on at once because you will have a very congested status bar down on the bottom right corner. But there are tools that you might want, Coordinates being a prime example. There's Coordinates there, so you might switch those on. You might switch on your Dynamic Input. You might also switch on LineWeights as well, like so. Now, I'm just going to switch those three…

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