Application Button and Application Menu

The Application button presents a menu of commands that involve manipulating a drawing, such as file-related commands, Model and Sheet workspace management, print and export commands, drawing properties management, and audit and recover tools.

The Application button promotes consistency across programs that use a ribbon-based user interface.

The Application menu allows quick access to the following file-related features and commands:

  • Access to the most recently used files from the Recent Documents list (with the most recently used file at the top)

  • Create, open, or save a file

  • Import: Commands for loading drawing files created by other applications or CAD programs of formats .dwg, .dxf, .dgn, .pdf, .stl, and .sat (ACIS).

  • Export: Commands for saving the drawing or specific entities, blocks, regions into other formats, such as vector and image files, .pdf.

  • Sheet: Commands for creating new sheets

  • Print: Commands for printing one or more drawings and managing printing configurations

  • Properties: Commands for editing drawing properties and drawing standards

  • Manage: Commands for checking, repairing, and recovering a drawing

  • Close the current drawing

  • Close All closes all open drawings

  • Access the Options dialog box

  • Show the About box

  • Exit the program

Related Topics

Quick Access Toolbar

Parent Topic

Ribbon Based User Interface