From the course: AutoCAD Mechanical Essential Training

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Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)

Quick Access Toolbar (QAT)

- [Instructor] The Quick Access toolbar in AutoCAD Mechanical is remarkably similar to your regular AutoCAD. It's located in the usual spot, top-left corner of the screen. So we've got thing like New, Open, Save, Save As. You've also got the new functionality that came along with the 2019 versions, which is Open from Web and Mobile and Save to Web and Mobile. You've also got Plot and the usual Undo and Redo. If I come to here though, you've got Switch Windows. Now this is quite a cool one to have on your Quick Access toolbar, the reason being is it allows you to switch between windows of different drawings you may have open at any given time in AutoCAD Mechanical. As usual, you can click on what I always jokingly call the eject button here, which looks like a DVD eject button. And you can add other commands if you want to. So all of these commands could be added. If I click on More Commands, that'll open up what they call the CUI, the customize user interface dialog box, and you can…

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