Status Bar Quick Reference

The status bar provides quick access to tools that affect the drawing environment.

Status Bar Button	Name	Description
Find	Coordinates	Displays the coordinates of the cursor position.
Find	Model Space	Indicates that you are currently working in model space. In model space, click this button to display the most recently accessed layout. In a layout, click his button to switch from model space in a layout viewport to paper space.
Find	Paper Space	Indicates that you are currently working in a layout. Click this button to switch from paper space to model space in a layout viewport.
Find	Grid	Displays a grid in the drawing area.
Find	Snap Mode	Turns on snap-to-grid. When grid snaps are turned on, the cursor snaps to specified grid intervals as you move the cursor. When polar snaps are turned on, the cursor snaps to specified distances along specified polar alignment paths.
Find	Infer Constraints	Applies geometric constraints automatically when you create or edit geometry.
Find	Dynamic Input	Displays a tooltip near the cursor, which you can use to specify options for commands and values for distances and angles.
Find	Orthomode	Constrains cursor movement to the horizontal or vertical directions.
Find	Polar Tracking	Tracks the cursor along specified polar angles.
Find	Isometric Drafting	Simulates an isometric drawing environment by aligning objects along isometric axes, where the angle between each axis is 120°.
Find	Object Snap Tracking	Tracks the cursor along vertical and horizontal alignment paths from object snap points.
Find	2D Object Snap	Snaps the cursor to the nearest 2D reference point, as you move the cursor. For example endpoints, centers of circles, midpoints, and so on.
Find	LineWeight	Displays lineweights in a drawing. Model space displays lineweights using a proportional pixel width. Layouts display lineweights using real-world units.
Find	Transparency	Turns on transparency for all objects that have their transparency property set to a non-zero value. When this button is turned off, all objects are opaque.
Find	Selection Cycling	Turns on selection cycling, a feature that assists you select an object, when objects overlap one another.
Find	3D Object Snap Note: Not available in AutoCAD LT.	Snaps the cursor to the nearest 3D reference point, as you move the cursor. For example vertexes, midpoints on edges, nearest to face, and so on.
Find	Dynamic UCS Note: Not available in AutoCAD LT.	Temporarily aligns the XY plane of the UCS to a planar face of a 3D solid.
Find	Selection Filtering Note: Not available in AutoCAD LT.	Specifies what objects are highlighted when you move the cursor over them.
Find	Gizmo Note: Not available in AutoCAD LT.	Displays 3D gizmos, which helps you move, rotate, or scale a set of objects along a 3D axis or plane.
Find	Maximize Viewport	Expands the current layout viewport to fill the screen, for editing.
Find	Minimize Viewport Note: This button replaces  on the status bar when the viewport is maximized.	Restores a layout viewport that is maximized.
Find	Annotation Visibility	Displays annotative objects using the annotation scale. When turned off, annotative objects are displayed at the current scale.
Find	AutoScale	Automatically adds annotation scales to all annotative objects, when the annotation scale changes.
Find	Annotation Scale	Sets the current annotation scale for annotative objects in model space.
Find	Viewport Lock	Locks the display of a layout viewport. When you zoom while the viewport is locked, zoom is applied to the entire layout, leaving the viewport scale in the layout viewport unchanged.
Find	Viewport Scale	Displays the scale of the selected viewport. This is visible only when you select a viewport
Find	Viewport Scale Sync	Indicates that the viewport scale and the annotation scale are equal. This is visible only when you select a viewport
Find	Viewport Scale Sync Note: This icon replaces  on the status bar when the viewport scale and annotation scale are equal.	Indicates that the viewport scale and the annotation scale are different. This is visible only when you select a viewport
Find	Workspace Switching	Changes the current workspace to the one you select.
Find	Annotation Monitor	Turns on the annotation monitor. When the annotation monitor is on, the system displays a badge on all nonassociative annotations.
Find	Units	Set the drawing units for the current drawing.
Find	Quick Properties	Displays the Quick Properties window when objects are selected.
Find	Lock UI	Locks the position and size of toolbars and dockable windows such as DesignCenter and the Properties window.
Find	Graphics Performance	Enables hardware acceleration to utilize the GPU of the installed graphics card instead of utilizing your computer's CPU.
Find	Clean Screen	Maximizes the drawing area by clearing it of the ribbon, toolbars, and dockable windows, except the command window.
Find	Clean Screen Note: This button replaces  on the status bar when the drawing area is maximized.	Restores the ribbon, toolbars, and dockable windows.
Find	Isolate Objects	Hide selected objects in the drawing area, or display objects that were hidden previously.
Find	Customization	Specifies what command buttons to display on the status bar.

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