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The status bar

The status bar

- [Instructor] We're staying in the interface.dwg file. And what I want to talk to you about now is what I mentioned in the previous video, which is the good old status bar on the bottom right part of your AutoCAD application window. It's down here where you've got all these different little icons where you can switch your drafting settings on and off. Now, there's a lot of settings down there that you probably won't use. And what I'm going to do is, as we work through the course I'll point out which ones we need to use and which ones we don't need to use. But what I do want you to do is customize your status bar for me first. So ideally, make sure you've got the interface.dwg drawing open in AutoCAD and in your version of AutoCAD just follow along with what I'm doing here. It's a good little muscle memory exercise so that you remember how to do it for future reference. So on your status bar you're going to click on the…

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