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PerryBond:
New user, sure I'm missing something obvious, but I can't see the main menu (File, Edit, View ect.)
I have the quick access toolbar and the ribbon with a few icons on it and the model screen and layout tab with the command window at the bottom.

babadmin:
No more old-style menu (File,Edit...) which can be found on old BabaCAD 32-bit versions before 2017. BabaCAD 64-bit has a modern ribbon-style menu with categories like Home,Insert,Annotation,View,Tools,Lisp. Each category has specific panel groups with icons and commands (Home category is used to be the main drawing menu and it has about 30-40 command buttons/dropdown lists/icons). File open/save and print commands/menu can be accessed from Quick Access Toolbar or clicking on BabaCAD App Icon on the upper-left corner.

If you see BabaCAD looks like in screenshot (BabaCAD Home Edition v2018/v2020) placed at the bottom of the first page on main website (https://www.babacad.com), than that's it. Otherwise, if you see just a few icons like you say, it just can't be (or maybe you mistakenly  installed some other software, not BabaCAD).

Also, there is a quick way to start any BabaCAD command by using new dynamic-input with auto-complete feature. Just start to type command while you have mouse cursor in the workspace. List of BabaCAD commands (starting with the letter you just typed) will appear and you can select the command by pressing down/up arrow keys or press 'Enter' to choose highlighted command from the list.

There are few settings (Object Snap, Tracking lines On/Off, Model/Layout switching, Dynamic-input and grid On/Off) which can be found  at the bottom of the BabaCAD application window (orange toggle buttons and OSnap popup button with click on down-arrow).

PerryBond:
OK, so I want to print a specific area, not sure how to do this, so I go to help. It states:
Plotting / printing
There are three commands for managing plotting / printing:

PerryBond:
Plotting / printing

There are three commands for managing plotting / printing:

menu option File -> Plot plots/prints chosen Layout to the ploter/printer

menu option File -> Plot Preview View on output before plotting/printing

menu option File -> Plot Setup Settings of plotting/printing

PerryBond:
I'm now assuming that's out of date.
I have three rectangles, inside each of them I have a drawing, /=I want to print each one; how do I specify the rectangle as a layout?

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