Introducing AutoCAD 2011 - Introduction to AutoCAD 2011: 2D and 3D Design - page 20

Methods of showing entries in the command palette
Throughout the topic, a tool is “called” usually by a click on a tool icon
in a panel - in this example entering zoom at the command line and the
following appears in the command palette:
Command: enter zoom right-click
Specify corner of window, enter a scale factor
(nX or nXP), or [All/Center/Dynamic/Extents/
Previous/Scale/Window/Object] <real time>: pick
a point on screen
Specify opposite corner: pick another point to
form a window
Command:
N o t e
In later examples this may be shortened to:
Command: zoom
[prompts]: following by picking points
Command:
N o t e s
1. In the above enter means type the given letter, word or words at the
Command: prompt.
2 . Right-click means press the Return (right) button of the mouse or
press the Return key of the keyboard.
Tools and tool icons
In AutoCAD 2011, tools are shown as names and icons in panels or in
drop-down menus. When the cursor is placed over a tool icon a description
shows with the name of the tool as shown and an explanation in diagram
form as in the example given in Fig. 1.7 (page 5).
If a small outward-facing arrow is included at the right-hand side of a tool
icon, when the cursor is placed over the icon and the pick button of the
mouse depressed and held, a fl yout appears which includes other features.
An example is given in Fig. 1.8 (page 5).