The Startup Dialog Box

AutoCAD 2002 provides users with two methods to begin drawing with AutoCAD: the Startup dialog and the Today page dialog. Both interfaces provide several methods for starting your drawing session, which allow you to open an existing drawing, start a drawing from scratch, use a predefined drawing template, or use a wizard to walk you through the steps necessary to define your drawing’s configuration.

Note

The new Today page has become a major component of AutoCAD 2002 and provides features and services that exceed the capability of the traditional Startup and file access dialogs. Due to this major enhancement we will focus our discussions and tutorials to use the Today page interface as much as possible.

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