How many objects are in your drawing?
What are the limits and the extents of your drawing?
What are the running object snaps?
What’s the current elevation setting?
Is FILL on or off?
What’s the current linetype?
How much free space does your hard drive have?
How much memory is free?
How many places do you think you’d have to look to find all this information? Think again. It’s all in one place — the STATUS command. It’s an ancient command but packs lots of information.
Try it out — you’ll see a lot more items than the ones I listed.
It’s a great tool for troubleshooting. Try it out. Leave a comment to let others know how you use this command.
Ellen Finkelstein is the author of the best-selling AutoCAD & AutoCAD LT Bible, which started with R14. Ellen has written extensively on AutoCAD, including articles for Autodesk’s website and features for AutoCAD’s Help system. Ellen’s first book was AutoCAD For Dummies Quick Reference.
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Great reminder Ellen. You never cease to amaze.
Nothing happened just got statusbar.