
As you can see there, if you hover over a topic here in the left-hand panel, you can see New, Open, Save, Save As. When you click on the fly-out arrow there, you'll see that it looks very different from AutoCAD 2009 or if you've not seen it before, it looks very different all the same. In AutoCAD 2010 it's known as the Application Menu. In AutoCAD 2009 that was known as the Menu Browser and it replicated the menu pull-downs from older versions of AutoCAD. For those of you that have used AutoCAD 2009, you'll be familiar with this big red A in the top, left corner of the screen. Now, what we're going to look at here as well is some of the new features that are available in AutoCAD 2010. As you can see, the commands are the same they're just in different places. So there's the Home Tab, there's the Insert Tab here at the top, the Annotate Tab. There's the Draw Panel, the Modify Panel, the Layers Panel and so on.

You now have a Ribbon with panels as you can see.


Now, for those of you that have not used AutoCAD 2009 or AutoCAD 2010 yet, you can see there that the Ribbon is a very different user interface. So the first thing we need to look at is at the top of the screen when you first startup AutoCAD 2010. What we're going to look at here is what's new in AutoCAD 2010 first of all just to get you familiar with some of the new features and tools that are available. Welcome to the AutoCAD 2010 Advanced Concepts Course.
