topic Re: Format tab not showing? in AutoCAD Forum

Format tab not showing?

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 18:44:27 GMT

I am using the Autocad 2016 tutorial (attached).

It says to select Format on the menu bar:

My Autocad does not show this. Instead it shows:

How can I get the Format tab?

Thank you for your help.

Re: Format tab not showing?

hmsilva — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:11:04 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

I am using the Autocad 2016 tutorial (attached).

It says to select Format on the menu bar:

...

How can I get the Format tab?

Thank you for your help.

Hello Bruce,

It's not 'Format tab' it's 'menu Format', you'll have to put the menus visible...

Hope this helps,
Henrique

Re: Format tab not showing?

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 20:41:21 GMT

That worked.

Thank you very much.

Re: Format tab not showing?

hmsilva — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:19:54 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

That worked.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome, Bruce!
Glad I could help

Henrique

Re: Format tab not showing?

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Aug 2018 14:49:06 GMT

Thanks Henrique,

It's useful to me as well.

@hmsilva wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
I am using the Autocad 2016 tutorial (attached).

It says to select Format on the menu bar:
...
How can I get the Format tab?

Thank you for your help.
Hello Bruce,
It's not 'Format tab' it's 'menu Format', you'll have to put the menus visible...

Hope this helps,
Henrique

Re: Format tab not showing?

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:08:13 GMT

Thank you so much. 🙂

Re: Format tab not showing?

jvenegas1973 — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:36:01 GMT

Thank You! I hate how Autocad now assumes that you know where everything is. Hiding **** doesn't help! Their instructions need to be more explicit. Thanks for the help! Very useful!

Re: Format tab not showing?

jvenegas1973 — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 18:45:01 GMT

Where in the hell is your "drawing setup" according to your instructions to go into the "Format Menu"? I finally found the format menu with the help of this forum but there is no "Drawing Setup" in there! WTF!😠😡

Re: Format tab not showing?

cadffm — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:04:22 GMT

In AutoCAD it means the Units Dialog,

Menu Formats/Units

or Command Units

There you can set Lunits (like Decimal) and Insunits (Meter, for example).

In Toolset ARCHITECTURE - what is another software,

Command UNITS

open another Dialog dialog

My questions is WHY? Why are you trying to find a dialog you don't know what the content is!?

Re: Format tab not showing?

pendean — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:32:33 GMT

Greetings @jvenegas1973 We are all end users over here just like you around here. Whom are you speaking with exactly?

1) your tutorial is from an older program, no longer relevant.

2) "drawing Setup" is not a plain AutoCAD feature (your program screenshot with the black background), you are using the incorrect variant for that ability. You also seem to be referencing incorrect tutorials for plain AutoCAD.

What variant were you hoping to be using instead?

For example, it is found in this variant over here from the red A in the top left corner of the program window, which also does not have pulldown menus at all anymore