The secret is to click the Customize button (three horizontal lines) located on the far-right side of the Status Bar.
While I cannot answer the question of why this was omitted from the default interface, I can answer the question of how to add it (back) to the interface. In an attempt to save screen real estate, AutoCAD 2015 combined the Layout tab interface with the Status Bar interface. I’m not quite sure why, but the default composition of the interface omits the coordinate readout from the Status Bar. Since the x- and y-coordinates represent the precise Easting and Northing location on a project site, knowing where you are on a project site is a critical bit of information.Įver since I started using AutoCAD with release 12 for MS-DOS, the coordinate readout has been in the lower-left corner of the Status Bar.
While I would argue coordinates are important for any design discipline, there is perhaps no discipline where coordinates are more critical than civil engineering. I’ll spare you the details, but to summarize coordinates help us identify the precise location of objects in our drawings.
Whenever you first learned AutoCAD, there’s a good chance at least some portion of the class/book included a discussion about the Cartesian coordinate system used throughout AutoCAD.
