180: AutoCAD for Beginners (1)

AutoCAD for beginners

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Manage Drawings

Ctrl+N: New Drawing
Ctrl+S: Save drawing
Ctrl+O: Open drawing
Ctrl+P: Plot dialog box
Ctrl+Tab: Switch to next
Ctrl+Shift+Tab: Switch to previous drawing
Ctrl+Page Up: Switch to previous tab in current drawing
Ctrl+Page Down: Switch to next tab in current drawing
Ctrl+Q: Exit
Ctrl+Shift+S: Save drawing as

Manage Workflow

Ctrl+A: Select all objects
Ctrl+C: Copy object
Ctrl+K: Insert hyperlink
Ctrl+X: Cut object
Ctrl+V: Paste object
Ctrl+Shift+C: Copy to clipboard with base point
Ctrl+Shift+V: Paste data as block
Ctrl+Z: Undo last action
Ctrl+Y: Redo last action
Ctrl+[: Cancel current command (or ctrl+\)
ESC: Cancel current command

Toggle Drawing Modes

F1: Display Help
F2: Toggle text screen
F3: Toggle object snap mode
F4: Toggle 3DOsnap
F5: Toggle Isoplane
F6: Toggle Dynamic UCS
F7: Toggle grid mode
F8: Toggle ortho mode
F9: Toggle snap mode
F10: Toggle polar mode
F11: Toggle object snap tracking
F12: Toggle dynamic input mode

Manage Screen

Ctrl+0 (zero): Clean Screen
Ctrl+1: Property Palette
Ctrl+2: Design Center Palette
Ctrl+3: Tool Palette
Ctrl+4: Sheet Set Palette
Ctrl+6: DBConnect Manager
Ctrl+7: Markup Set Manager Palette
Ctrl+8: Quick Calc
Ctrl+9: Command Line

Toggle General Features

Ctrl+G: Toggle Grid
Ctrl+E: Cycle isometric planes
Ctrl+F: Toggle running object snaps
Ctrl+H: Toggle Pick Style
Ctrl+Shift+H: Toggle Hide pallets
Ctrl+I: Toggle Coords
Ctrl+Shift+I: Toggle Infer Constraints

A-Z keys

A: ARC / Creates an arc
ADC: ADCENTER / Manages and inserts content such as blocks, xrefs, and hatch patterns
AA: AREA / Calculates the area and perimeter of objects or of defined areas
AL: ALIGN / Aligns objects with other objects in 2D and 3D
AP: APPLOAD / Load Application
AR: ARRAY / Creates multiple copies of objects in a pattern
ARR: ACTRECORD / Starts the Action Recorder
ARM: ACTUSERMESSAGE / Inserts a user message into an action macro
ARU: ACTUSERINPUT / Pauses for user input in an action macro
ARS: : ACTSTOP / Stops the Action Recorder and provides the option of saving the recorded actions to an action macro file
ATI: ATTIPEDIT / Changes the textual content of an attribute within a block
ATT: ATTDEF / Redefines a block and updates associated attributes
ATE: ATTEDIT / Changes attribute information in a block

B: BLOCK / Creates a block definition from selected objects
BC: BCLOSE / Closes the Block Editor
BE: BEDIT / Opens the block definition in the Block Editor
BH: HATCH / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pattern, solid fill, or gradient fill
BO: BOUNDARY / Creates a region or a polyline from an enclosed area
BR: BREAK / Breaks the selected object between two points
BS: BSAVE / Saves the current block definition
BVS: BVSTATE / Creates, sets, or deletes a visibility state in a dynamic block

C: CIRCLE / Creates a circle
CAM: CAMERA / Sets a camera and target location to create and save a 3D perspective view of objects
CBAR: CONSTRAINTBAR / A toolbar-like UI element that displays the available geometric constraints on an object
CH: PROPERTIES / Controls properties of existing objects
CHA: CHAMFER / Bevels the edges of objects
CHK: CHECKSTANDARDS / Checks the current drawing for standards violations
CLI: COMMANDLINE / Displays the Command Line window
COL: COLOR / Sets the color for new objects
CO: COPY / Copies objects a specified distance in a specified direction
CT: CTABLESTYLE / Sets the name of the current table style
CUBE: NAVVCUBE / Controls the visibility and display properties of the ViewCube tool
CYL: CYLINDER / Creates a 3D solid cylinder

D: DIMSTYLE / Creates and modifies dimension styles
DAN: DIMANGULAR / Creates an angular dimension
DAR: DIMARC / Creates an arc length dimension
DBA: DIMBASELINE / Creates a linear, angular, or ordinate dimension from the baseline of the previous or selected dimension
DBC: DBCONNECT / Provides an interface to external database tables
DCE: DIMCENTER / Creates the center mark or the centerlines of circles and arcs
DCO: DIMCONTINUE / Creates a dimension that starts from an extension line of a previously created dimension
DCON: DIMCONSTRAINT / Applies dimensional constraints to selected objects or points on objects
DDA: DIMDISASSOCIATE / Removes associativity from selected dimensions
DDI: DIMDIAMETER / Creates a diameter dimension for a circle or an arc
DED: DIMEDIT / Edits dimension text and extension lines
DI: DIST / Measures the distance and angle between two points
DIV: DIVIDE / Creates evenly spaced point objects or blocks along the length or perimeter of an object
DJL: DIMJOGLINE / Adds or removes a jog line on a linear or aligned dimension
DJO: DIMJOGGED / Creates jogged dimensions for circles and arcs
DL: DATALINK / The Data Link dialog box is displayed
DLU: DATALINKUPDATE / Updates data to or from an established external data link
DO: DONUT / Creates a filled circle or a wide ring
DOR: DIMORDINATE / Creates ordinate dimensions
DOV: DIMOVERRIDE / Controls overrides of system variables used in selected dimensions
DR: DRAWORDER / Changes the draw order of images and other objects
DRA: DIMRADIUS / Creates a radius dimension for a circle or an arc
DRE: DIMREASSOCIATE / Associates or re-associates selected dimensions to objects or points on objects
DRM: DRAWINGRECOVERY / Displays a list of drawing files that can be recovered after a program or system failure
DS: DSETTINGS / Sets grid and snap, polar and object snap tracking, object snap modes, Dynamic Input, and Quick Properties
DT: TEXT / Creates a single-line text object
DV: DVIEW / Defines parallel projection or perspective views by using a camera and target
DX: DATAEXTRACTION / Extracts drawing data and merges data from an external source to a data extraction table or external file

E: ERASE / Removes objects from a drawing
ED: DDEDIT / Edits single-line text, dimension text, attribute definitions, and feature control frames
EL: ELLIPSE / Creates an ellipse or an elliptical arc
EPDF: EXPORTPDF / Exports drawing to PDF
ER: EXTERNALREFERENCES / Opens the External References palette
EX: EXTEND / Extends objects to meet the edges of other objects
EXIT: QUIT / Exits the program
EXP: EXPORT / Saves the objects in a drawing to a different file format
EXT: EXTRUDE / Extends the dimensions of a 2D object or 3D face into 3D space

F: FILLET / Rounds and fillets the edges of objects
FI: FILTER / Creates a list of requirements that an object must meet to be included in a selection set
FS: FSMODE / Creates a selection set of all objects that touch the selected object
FSHOT: FLATSHOT / Creates a 2D representation of all 3D objects based on the current view

G: GROUP / Creates and manages saved sets of objects called groups
GCON: GEOCONSTRAINT / Applies or persists geometric relationships between objects or points on objects
GD: GRADIENT / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a gradient fill
GEO: GEOGRAPHICLOCATION / Specifies the geographic location information for a drawing file

H: HATCH / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pattern, solid fill, or gradient fill
HE: HATCHEDIT / Modifies an existing hatch or fill
HI: HIDE / Regenerates a 3D wireframe model with hidden lines suppressed

I: INSERT / Inserts a block or drawing into the current drawing
IAD: IMAGEADJUST / Controls the image display of the brightness, contrast, and fade values of images
IAT: IMAGEATTACH / Inserts a reference to an image file
ICL: IMAGECLIP / Crops the display of a selected image to a specified boundary
ID: ID / Displays the UCS coordinate values of a specified location
IM: IMAGE / Displays the External References palette
IMP: IMPORT / Imports files of different formats into the current drawing
IN: INTERSECT / Creates a 3D solid, surface, or 2D region from overlapping solids, surfaces, or regions
INF: INTERFERE / Creates a temporary 3D solid from the interferences between two sets of selected 3D solids
IO: INSERTOBJ / Inserts a linked or embedded object

J: JOIN / Joins similar objects to form a single, unbroken object
JOG: DIMJOGGED / Creates jogged dimensions for circles and arcs

L: LINE / Creates straight line segments
LA: LAYER / Manages layers and layer properties
LAS: LAYERSTATE / Saves, restores, and manages named layer states
LE: QLEADER / Creates a leader and leader annotation
LEN: LENGTHEN / Changes the length of objects and the included angle of arcs
LESS: MESHSMOOTHLESS / Decreases the level of smoothness for mesh objects by one level
LI: LIST / Displays property data for selected objects
LO: LAYOUT / Creates and modifies drawing layout tabs
LT: LINETYPE / Loads, sets, and modifies linetypes
LTS: LTSCALE / Changes the scale factor of linetypes for all objects in a drawing
LW: LWEIGHT / Sets the current lineweight, lineweight display options, and lineweight units

M: MOVE / Moves objects a specified distance in a specified direction
MA: MATCHPROP / Applies the properties of a selected object to other objects
ME: MEASURE / Joins similar objects to form a single, unbroken object
MEA: MEASUREGEOM / Measures the distance, radius, angle, area, and volume of selected objects or sequence of points
MI: MIRROR / Creates a mirrored copy of selected objects
ML: MLINE / Creates multiple parallel lines
MLA: MLEADERALIGN / Aligns and spaces selected multileader objects
MLC: MLEADERCOLLECT / Organizes selected multileaders that contain blocks into rows or columns, and displays the result with a single leader
MLD: MLEADER / Creates a multileader object
MLE: MLEADEREDIT / Adds leader lines to, or removes leader lines from, a multileader object
MLS: MLEADERSTYLE / Creates and modifies multileader styles
MO: PROPERTIES / Controls properties of existing objects
MORE: MESHSMOOTHMORE / Increases the level of smoothness for mesh objects by one level
MS: MSPACE / Switches from paper space to a model space viewport
MSM: MARKUP / Opens the Markup Set Manager
MT: MTEXT / Creates a multiline text object
MV: MVIEW / Creates and controls layout viewports

NORTH: GEOGRAPHICLOCATION / Specifies the geographic location information for a drawing file
NSHOT: NEWSHOT / Creates a named view with motion that is played back when viewed with ShowMotion
NVIEW: NEWVIEW / Creates a named view with no motion

O: OFFSET / Creates concentric circles, parallel lines, and parallel curves
OFFSETSRF: SURFOFFSET/ Creates a parallel surface or solid by setting an offset distance from a surface
OP: OPTIONS / Customizes the program settings
ORBIT / 3DO: 3DORBIT / Rotates the view in 3D space, but constrained to horizontal and vertical orbit only
OS: OSNAP / Sets running object snap modes

P: PAN / Adds a parameter with grips to a dynamic block definition
PA: PASTESPEC / Pastes objects from the Clipboard into the current drawing and controls the format of the data
PAR: PARAMETERS / Controls the associative parameters used in the drawing
PARAM: BPARAMETER / Adds a parameter with grips to a dynamic block definition
PATCH: SURFPATCH / Creates a new surface by fitting a cap over a surface edge that forms a closed loop
PCATTACH: POINTCLOUDATTACH / Inserts an indexed point cloud file into the current drawing
PE: PEDIT / Edits polylines and 3D polygon meshes
PL: PLINE / Creates a 2D polyline
PO: POINT / Creates a point object
POFF: HIDEPALETTES / Hides currently displayed palettes (including the command line)
POL: POLYGON / Creates an equilateral closed polyline
PON: SHOWPALETTES / Restores the display of hidden palettes
PR: PROPERTIES / Displays Properties palette
PRE: PREVIEW / Displays the drawing as it will be plotted
PRINT: PLOT / Plots a drawing to a plotter, printer, or file
PS: PSPACE / Switches from a model space viewport to paper space
PSOLID: POLYSOLID / Creates a 3D wall-like polysolid
PU: PURGE / Removes unused items, such as block definitions and layers, from the drawing
PYR: PYRAMID / Creates a 3D solid pyramid

QC: QUICKCALC / Opens the QuickCalc calculator
QCUI: QUICKCUI / Displays the Customize User Interface Editor in a collapsed state
QP: QUICKPROPERTIES / Displays open drawings and layouts in a drawing in preview images
Q: QSAVE / Saves the current drawing
QVD: QVDRAWING / Displays open drawings and layouts in a drawing using preview images
QVDC: QVDRAWINGCLOSE / Closes preview images of open drawings and layouts in a drawing
QVL: QVLAYOUT / Displays preview images of model space and layouts in a drawing
QVLC: QVLAYOUTCLOSE / Closes preview images of model space and layouts in the current drawing

R: REDRAW / Refreshes the display in the current viewport
RA: REDRAWALL / Refreshes the display in all viewports
RC: RENDERCROP / Renders a specified rectangular area, called a crop window, within a viewport
RE: REGEN / Regenerates the entire drawing from the current viewport
REA: REGENALL / Regenerates the drawing and refreshes all viewports
REC: RECTANG / Creates a rectangular polyline
REG: REGION / Converts an object that encloses an area into a region object
REN: RENAME / Changes the names assigned to items such as layers and dimension styles
REV: REVOLVE / Creates a 3D solid or surface by sweeping a 2D object around an axis
RO: ROTATE / Rotates objects around a base point
RP: RENDERPRESETS / Specifies render pre-sets, reusable rendering parameters, for rendering an image
RR: RENDER / Creates a photorealistic or realistically shaded image of a 3D solid or surface model
RW: RENDERWIN / Displays the Render window without starting a rendering operation

S: STRETCH / Stretches objects crossed by a selection window or polygon
SC: SCALE / Enlarges or reduces selected objects, keeping the proportions of the object the same after scaling
SCR: SCRIPT / Executes a sequence of commands from a script file
SEC: SECTION / Uses the intersection of a plane and solids, surfaces, or mesh to create a region
SET: SETVAR / Lists or changes the values of system variables
SHA: SHADEMODE / Starts the VSCURRENT command
SL: SLICE / Creates new 3D solids and surfaces by slicing, or dividing, existing objects
SN: SNAP / Restricts cursor movement to specified intervals
SO: SOLID / Creates solid-filled triangles and quadrilaterals
SP: SPELL / Checks spelling in a drawing
SPE: SPLINEDIT / Edits a spline or spline-fit polyline
SPL: SPLINE / Creates a smooth curve that passes through or near specified points
SPLANE: SECTIONPLANE / Creates a section object that acts as a cutting plane through 3D objects
SPLAY: SEQUENCEPLAY / Plays named views in one category
SPLIT: MESHSPLIT / Splits a mesh face into two faces
SSM: SHEETSET / Opens the Sheet Set Manager
ST: STYLE / Creates, modifies, or specifies text styles
STA: STANDARDS / Manages the association of standards files with drawings
SU: SUBTRACT / Combines selected 3D solids, surfaces, or 2D regions by subtraction

T: MTEXT / Creates a multiline text object
TA: TEXTALIGN / Aligns multiple text objects vertically, horizontally, or obliquely
TB: TABLE / Creates an empty table object
TED: TEXTEDIT / Edits a dimensional constraint, dimension, or text object
TH: THICKNESS / Sets the default 3D thickness property when creating 2D geometric objects
TI: TILEMODE / Controls whether paper space can be accessed
TOL: TOLERANCE / Creates geometric tolerances contained in a feature control frame
TOR: TORUS / Creates a donut-shaped 3D solid
TP: TOOLPALETTES / Opens the Tool Palettes window
TR: TRIM / Trims objects to meet the edges of other objects
TS: TABLESTYLE / Creates, modifies, or specifies table styles

UC: UCSMAN / Manages defined user coordinate systems.
UN: UNITS / Controls coordinate and angle display formats and precision.
UNHIDE / UNISOLATE: UNISOLATEOBJECTS / Displays objects previously hidden with the ISOLATEOBJECTS or HIDEOBJECTS command.
UNI: UNION / Unions two solid or two region objects.

V: VIEW / Saves and restores named views, camera views, layout views, and pre-set views.
VGO: VIEWGO / Restores a named view.
VP: VPOINT / Sets the 3D viewing direction.
VPLAY: VIEWPLAY / Plays the animation associated to a named view.
VS: VSCURRENT / Sets the visual style in the current viewport.
VSM: VISUALSTYLES / Creates and modifies visual styles and applies a visual style to a viewport.

W: WBLOCK / Writes objects or a block to a new drawing file.
WE: WEDGE / Creates a 3D solid wedge.
WHEEL: NAVSWHEEL / Displays a wheel that contains a collection of view navigation tools.

X: EXPLODE / Breaks a compound object into its component objects.
XA: XATTACH / Inserts a DWG file as an external reference (xref).
XB: XBIND / Binds one or more definitions of named objects in an xref to the current drawing.
XC: XCLIP / Crops the display of a selected external reference or block reference to a specified boundary.
XL: XLINE / Creates a line of infinite length.
XR: XREF / Starts the EXTERNALREFERENCES command.

Z: ZOOM / Increases or decreases the magnification of the view in the current viewport.
ZEBRA: ANALYSISZEBRA / Projects stripes onto a 3D model to analyse surface continuity.
ZIP: ETRANSMIT / Creates a Self-Extracting or Zipped Transmittal Package.

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