Introducing AutoCAD 2011 - Introduction to AutoCAD 2011: 2D and 3D Design - page 5

Fig. 1.3 The AutoCAD 2011 2D Drafting and Annotation workspace
clicking the appropriate tab. The panels in the ribbon can be changed
to any desired panels as required using the Customer User Interface
dialog if desired.
Menu Browser icon: A left-click on the arrow to the right of the A symbol
at the top left-hand corner of the AutoCAD 2011 window causes the
Menu Browser menu to appear ( Fig. 1.4 ).
Workspace Switching menu: Appears with a click on the Workspace
Switching button in the status bar (Fig. 1.5).
Command palette : Can be dragged from its position at the bottom of the
AutoCAD window into the AutoCAD drawing area, when it can be seen
to be a palette (Fig. 1.6). As with all palettes, an Auto-hide icon and a
right-click menu is included.
Tool panels : Each shows tools appropriate to the panel. Taking the Home/
Draw panel as an example, Fig. 1.7 shows that placing the mouse cursor
on one of the tool icons in a panel brings a tooltip on screen showing
details of how the tool can be used. Two types of tooltip will be seen. In
the majority of future illustrations of tooltips, the smaller version will
be shown. Other tools have popup menus appearing with a click . In the
example given in Fig. 1.8, a click on the Circle tool icon will show a
tooltip. A click on the arrow to the right of the tool icon brings a popup
menu showing the construction method options available for the tool.