The interface

Ribbon and workspaces

The ribbon follows AutoCAD's order — Home, Insert, Annotate, View, Manage, Output, Express Tools, Drawing Tools — and the VectorMEP tabs come after them (VM Common, VM V&P, VM Annotate, VM Electrical, VM Schematics, VM Circuit Designer). The workspace button in the title bar switches between Drafting & Annotation, 3D Basics, 3D Modeling and MEP.

Command line

Type a command or its alias and press Enter; options in square brackets are chosen by their capital letters. F2 shows more history. Dynamic input next to the cursor shows the same prompts.

Views and visual styles

Two controls at the right end of the command line: the viewport configuration of model space (Single, two, three or four viewports) and the visual style of the view on screen — 2D Wireframe, Wireframe, Hidden, Shaded, Shaded with Edges, Realistic, Conceptual, Shades of Gray, X-Ray — each with its icon. A style changes the view on screen only: each drawing tab and each viewport keeps its own, so one viewport can be shaded while the one beside it stays in wireframe. Viewports split from a 3D view start from it. A drawing saved in a 3D view opens in it again.

Drawings and layouts

Every open drawing has a tab under the ribbon (Ctrl+Tab switches). The tabs at the bottom are model space and the layouts: sheets with viewports at a scale, title blocks and plot settings, stored in the DWG.

Themes

Dark and Light themes are in Options; the icon of the program follows the theme.