The user interface in AutoCAD® 2009 software has undergone a major renovation. You are going to love how quickly you can navigate to your favorite commands while still maintaining plenty of room for your drawing. Right of the bat you will notice that the default model space background color has changed to of-white, making it easy for layer colors to be consistent in both model space and paper space. | AutoCAD User Interface The user interface in AutoCAD 2009 software has undergone a major renovation. You are going to love how quickly you can navigate to your favorite commands while still maintaining plenty of room for your drawing. Right off the bat you will notice that the default model space background color has changed to off-white making it easy for layer colors to be consistent in both model space and paper space. New Quick Access Toolbar In the upper-left corner of the screen is the powerful new Quick Access toolbar. Here you will find the frequently used New Open Save Plot Undo and Redo commands. In addition you can easily add your own favorites. Right-click and choose Customize Quick Access toolbar and then drag your favorite commands to personalize it for maximum productivity. A right-click menu option will restore the traditional menu bar as well. 2 Menu Browser In the upper-left corner you will find the new Menu Browser button. Here are all the menus that used to lie across the top of your screen listed vertically for easy access. User Interface Use the new Search tool in the upper-right corner of the menu browser to quickly search for any commands you need help finding. Behind the scenes AutoCAD searches the CUI file to find all matches. Double-click any listed item to launch the associated command. The menu browser also provides access to recent or open documents with preview icons if you choose . You can display them in an ordered list or group them by date or file type for added convenience. Move the cursor over any drawing name to display a preview image and other document information. You can control the length of this list in the Options dialog box. Use the Recent Actions option to view and execute commands recently accessed from the menu browser. 3 Pin Important Drawingsand Actions Here is a favorite The shortcut menu in the menu browser lets you pin a drawing file so it won t fall off the list. You can also pin actions you use over and over .
