ABSTRACT

Illustrations throughout this chapter will be shown as working in the Drafting & Annotation workspace. In this workspace, the Home/Draw panel is at the left-hand end of the Ribbon, and Draw tools can be selected from the panel as indicated by a click on the Line tool icon (Fig. 3.1). In this chapter, all examples will show tools as selected from the Home/Draw panel. However, methods of construction will be the same if the reader wishes to work by calling tools from the Draw drop-down menu. In order to bring drop-down menus on screen, first click the small arrow button on the right-hand end of the Quick Access toolbar, then click Show Menu Bar in the menu that appears. Menu titles appear above the Ribbon. Click

PART A 2D Design

Draw in this menu bar. From the drop-down menu that appears, tools from the Draw list in the menu can be selected. Fig. 3.2 shows the Line tool being selected.