What are your favourite AutoCAD shortcuts?
Hello CAD Answers, what are your most favorite commands in AutoCAD?
What are the most helpful ones?
Here are my favourites:
MIRROR – Creates a mirrored copy of selected objects.
TRIM – Trims objects to meet the edges of other objects
EXPLODE – Breaks a compound object into its component objects
COPY – Copies objects a specified distance in a specified direction
I find they come in very handy when doing repetitive tasks.
Hi Magi,
The commands you mentioned are quite helpful and used everyday but they are so basic that I do not think that they are my favorite, I’d think I’d be more in love with other commands such as the :
Purge – Just because it removes all the unused clutter in my work area and the workspace looks much cleaner after using it
SmartPurger– Another Clean up tool that is a little bit more neat and efficient
OverKill – Sometimes but be careful it sometimes merges objects you do not want to get merged
Audit – to Fix all that nasty errors
There are a few more on my list actually 😀
I’ll post again tomorrow, I realized there’s just so much more to it 😀
Hey guys, you might want to check out the full commands list here on CAD Answers in another thread:
https://cadanswers.com/question/is-there-a-list-of-full-autocad-script-commands/
Have fun 🙂
Thanks JavaParaTrooper “Y” “Y” “Y”
Im a big fan of LINE 🙂
but a cool one i use is CNTRL+ right click during move (or similar command) it will bring up a temporary override snap menu.
My best discovery so far is that commands can have aliases, for example I used to type CO for Copy, a Major helpful tip is that you can actually change the command’s Alias (The “CO” Part), I changed it to only C
Here’s how you can do it:
http://www.cad-notes.com/where-can-i-see-autocad-command-alias-list/
Good luck guys
Thanks EngineerLife,
You can edit command Aliases from:
tool>customize>edit program parameters (acad.pgp)
I found out that by changing The column on the right you can change the command shortcut
My top 3 would have to be:
QSELECT – when there are just too many elements on screen and you need to single out specific ones
PURGE – just to clean up the file
OVERKILL – also to clean up, this time with lines and drawing elements
My top 3 would have to be:
QSELECT – when there are just too many elements on screen and you need to single out specific ones
PURGE – just to clean up the file
OVERKILL – also to clean up, this time with lines and drawing elements