Navigating in AutoCAD

To navigate in AutoCAD, a three-button mouse with left-click, right-click, and the middle scroll wheel is recommended. The laptop touchpad can be used but with a few limitations.

If you have access to lesson files, then open drawing 1.1 in AutoCAD. If you don't have lesson files, you can open any drawing file to follow along. This is a sample drawing by Autodesk AutoCAD that is available as a read-only file when you launch the software for the first time.

Selecting and panning

To select any object in the drawing, hover your cursor over it and left-click. The object will be selected and blue rectangular dots, called multi-function grip, will show up. The selected object will also get highlighted:

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