Status Bar

The status bar is located at the bottom of the application window.

It is divided into the following areas:

Tooltips

The left side of the status bar displays tooltips. If you move the pointer over toolbar icons or menu items, a description of the command or function displays in the tooltips area.

Drafting Settings

The middle of the status bar contains buttons to turn on and off drafting options. These are:

• Snap (Snap Grid)

• Grid (Grid Display)

• Ortho (Ortho Mode)

• Polar (Polar Guides)

• ESnap (Entity Snaps)

• ETrack (ETrack Guides)

  For all of these options, right-click to specify Settings.

Other Options

• QInput. Turns on and off QuickInput.

• Cycling Selection. Turns on and off Cycling Selection.

• LWeight. Turns on and off LineWeights display.

• MODEL / SHEET. When the Model tab is active, this option switches to the most recently used layout Sheet. When a layout Sheet is active, this option switches between the Sheet workspace and the Model workspace of the most recently used Viewport.

• Dynamic CCS. Turns on and off the Dynamic Custom Coordinate System (Dynamic CCS).

• AMonitor. Turns on and off the Annotation Monitor.

• Annotation. Lets you select the current annotative scale.

Coordinate Display

Next to the option buttons the status bar shows the X-, Y-, and Z-coordinates of the pointer.

Notification Area

The notification area of the status bar displays a balloon to indicate that an external reference drawing has changed and needs reloading.

Right-clicking the Reference icon ( ) displays a menu:

• References. Displays the References palette.

• Reload References. Drawings that contain referenced drawings are displayed in their current states.

Customization Menu

Clicking the Customize status bar icon ( ) displays a menu. Checking and unchecking options in the menu shows or hides buttons in the status bar.

Use the option from the Customize status bar menu to show only the tools you use for your current project.

Additional options let you choose how to display buttons in the status bar:

• Show icons. Shows status bar icons instead of plain text.

• Show labels. Shows status bar with plain text only.

• Show icons & labels. Shows status bar icons and text.