Autocad Civil 3D User Interface Overview

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1.The Menu Brower
Browse all drop-down menus available in civil 3D or perform a real-time search of the menus, menu actions, tooltips, and command prompt text strings.Use the menu browser the browse for recent documents, currently open documents, and command recently exexuted from the menu browser

2.Quick access Toolbar
Store comands that you frequently access in Autocad Civil 3D, By default, you can access New, Open, Save, Plot, Undo, Redo from the Quick Access Toolbar, Add commands to the Quick Access Toolbar using the shortcut menus on the menu browser and toolbar

3.Menus
Menus contain tools and actions for creating and editing Civil 3D objects. The Civil 3D complete workspace contains all menu commands and other workspaces contain specialized subsets of commands.

4.Civil 3D Toolbars
Civil 3D provides a number of toolbar to give you quick access commontly uses commands. The Civil 3D standard provides access to standard operations such as pan and zoom. Other toolbars access provide to transparent commands, feature line commands and inquiry commands.

5.InfoCenter
Search for information using keyword and phrases, display the communication center panel for product updates and unnouncements, or display the favorites panel to access save bookmarks. You can aslo receive information from RSS feeds to quick you subscribe.

6.ViewCube
Display visial feedback of the current orientation of the model or udjust a model’ s viewpoint in a Civil 3D visual style. Restore previous view or click the drag over the rewind wedge scroll through the navigation history to restore a previous view. Enter Cube at the command line to display the ViewCube.

7.Tool Palettes
Organize, share, and place tools that are dragged from your drawing or are provide from your drawing or are provided from Autodesk and third-party developers. Change the properties of any tool palette and organize tool palettes into groups. AutoCad civil 3D include many default palettes including several groupings of subassemblies.

8.Steering Wheel
Access 2D and 3D navigantion tools such as pan, orbit, rewind, and walk from a single inetrface. Start the navigation tools by clicking a wedge or by clicking and dragging the cursor over a wedge. Enter Wheel at the command line to display the Steering Wheel.

9.Workspace Picker
Workspaces are sets of menus and toolbars that are grouped and organized so that you can work in a custom, task-oriented drawing environment. When you use a workspace, only the menus, toolbars, and secondary windows specified in that workspace are shown in the interface.

10.Status Bar
View the coordinate values of your cursor and access several buttons for turning on and off drawing tools as well as many display tools used to scale annotations.

11.Command Line
Execute a command by typing the full command name or command alias at the command prompt and pressing Enter or Spacebar. When Dynamic Input is on and set to display dynamic prompts, you can enter many commands in tooltips near the cursor.

12.Viewport Tabs
Display multiple views of the same drawing, each with different visual styles. Add or remove viewports using the Vports command.

13.List view/ Item view
Use the toolspace item view to display informaton about an item or the content of a collection. The item view is a secondary pade displayed beside or below the tree. To display item view, click the item name.

14.Toolspace
Access the Propector, Settings, Survey, and Toolbox tabs. Use the prospector tab to manager design objects. Use the Settings tab to manage object settings, styles, and other drawing items, such as point file formats, description keu sets and grading criteria sets. Use the survey tab to access reports manager and add custom tools.