Number entry box missing

[Anonymous]

Howdy all, so I've just started teaching myself autocad today, I'm an apprentice sheetmetal worker who wants to be able to design better stuff for myself.

so my problem is as follows:

I was designing a little box, when autocad descided it was going to crash, when I restarted autocad the little box where I can enter numbers had disappeared completely, nowhere to be found. I have scoured the internet and I simply dont know what to google as I don't know what it's called.

All I ask is to be told how to turn it back on and what it's called.

Cheers for any help given 🙂

[JDMather]

Search on the term Dynamic Input.

BTW - I would recommend to someone just starting out and with an interest in Sheet Metal to be learning a next-generation CAD program like Autodesk Inventor (which has a Sheet Metal environment) rather than AutoCAD.

Students can download Inventor for free from http://www.autodesk.com/edcommunity

[nestly2]

Dynamic Input   (DYNMODE)

[JDMather]

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[JDMather]

Did you figure this out?