Autocad 2007 shortcut commands

This command can be used to make the selection from your drawing with filters. As an example, you can use quick select to make a selection set containing all circles of the drawing with the radius of a particular value.

It can be used to find the distance between two points in the drawing. You can paste the copied objects from clipboard to your drawing using this command. Using this command you can find lots of properties of an object like the layer they are on, area, length or radius, perimeter or circumference and a lot more. To use this command simply type LIST on the command line then press enter and select the object from drawing area about which you want to know and press enter again.

This command was introduced in AutoCAD version and it can be used to make most of the dimensions like Linear, aligned, radius, diameter and baseline. If you want to add a feature control frame representing tolerance related information in your drawing then you can use this command.

Using this command you can change the scale of existing Text or Mtext object in the drawing. When the scale of these text entities are changed the base point will remain fixed.

Using this command you can change the base point of a drawing without changing its origin. This is especially helpful in the situation where you want to insert the drawing into another as a Xref. By default, AutoCAD takes origin as the base point which can be modified using this command without changing the origin. Using this command you can change the text justification of Text and Mtext elements in the drawing.

Using this command you can set the drawing units and other settings like the precision of linear and angular dimensions and default rotation angle.

Using this command you can make a multiline geometry which contains multiple parallel lines. You can insert a block or a drawing as a block in the table using this command. I have made a simple table by importing blocks of design center as shown in the image below.

As the name suggests this command can be used to find the area of closed or open shapes in the AutoCAD drawing. To know more about finding the area in AutoCAD drawings refer to this related article.

Using this command you can reorient text entities in a best readable position. In image A below the text is oriented at different angles and in some of the situations, the text is not properly readable. This command can be used to find the coordinate values of a point in AutoCAD drawing. Using this command you can insert existing blocks of a drawing as a rectangular array component.

Using this command you can extract closed boundaries from any enclosed area. This boundary can be used to find the area of the enclosed region or for many other applications. This command can be used to make a dimension line inclined to a particular angle with respect to the positive side of the X-axis. You can use this tool to make a Breakline symbol on a line.

Select the starting and end points of the breakline then click at any point on the line to specify the location of breakline or directly press enter to place it exactly at the center of the line. Using this command you can convert a text object into a Mtext object and you can also combine multiple separate Mtext objects into a single Mtext unit. As the name suggests this command can be used to save all of the open drawings in AutoCAD window.

There are many best practices that you follow to keep your AutoCAD software and PC in great working condition and there are also many inbuilt tools and commands in AutoCAD that help you in keeping the performance of your software properly optimized.

In this section, you will find all those performance and optimization related commands which you can use in your daily workflow. This command can be used to remove unused named objects like layers, blocks and dimension styles from the drawing. This command can also remove Defpoints layer and also layer containing objects but I would not recommend that.

Using this system variable you can turn off or on the visibility of filled area in hatches or wide polylines by changing its value to 0 or 1 respectively. You need to regenerate the drawing using REA command after changing this system variable to see its effect on the drawing.

This system variable controls the area of influence of object snap. The aperture size as defined by this system variable is the area of the square under which the point will be selected if the cursor is brought into it. The default value of this aperture is 10 but depending on the complexity of the drawing you can change this value between The size of the aperture is relative to the current scale of the screen and it is not an absolute value.

In the image below the red box not visible in AutoCAD is the aperture size for two values 10 and 50 respectively. Use this command to remove overlapping or unnecessary geometries from the drawing. You can change the value of this system variable to reduce the time it takes to save a drawing. This system variable also affects file size of AutoCAD drawings and its compatibility with other softwares. By decreasing the value of this system variable you can increase its compatibility with other softwares and it also decreases the size of the CAD file but the time consumed in save operation generally increases.

When you increase the value of this system variable opposite happens. The default value of this system variable is 50 and it can be changed from 0 to When hovering the cursor over any object a preview will appear if the value of this system variable is set to 3.

You can remove this preview thereby improve the performance by changing the value of this system variable to 0. Its default value is 1 but you can turn off this highlight effect by changing its value to 0. Using this command you can change the layers of selected objects. To use this command type LAYMCH on the command line and press enter key then select objects whose layer assignment you want to change and press enter then select any object of the layer which you want to apply on selected objects and press enter key again.

Using this system variable you can change the size of Pickbox which appears at the cursor of AutoCAD. The default value of this system variable is 3 and you can change its value from 0 to In the image below the size of Pickbox is 3 for first cursor and 10 for the second cursor. This system variable will toggle the visibility of start tab at the beginning of the AutoCAD application.

AutoCAD will prompt you with the save dialogue box before closing all unsaved drawings and it will take you to start screen after closing all of the drawings.

This system variable suppresses the dialog box that opens up when invoking certian commands like Save, Save As and Export. The default value of this system variable is 1 which allows the dialog box to open. When you, however, change the value of this system variable to 0 the command will run on the command line and the dialog box will not open. This command should be used for removing errors from your drawing. More about drawing repair tools can be found in this related article. This command is a great time saver if you want to copy properties of one object on other without changing its geometry or contents.

Using this command you can close all open drawing windows except the current drawing window. Using this command you can shrink or expand the text entities in a drawing to fit in the required area. Using wipeout command you can clean background in a crowded drawing to make overlaying objects clear against the background.

In the image shown below Wipeout command has been used to clean the area around the second hook. Using this command you can convert your AutoCAD drawing from one unit to another and you can also scale the existing drawing to new scales automatically, you can know more about this command in the related article. Using this command you can automatically create a masking behind the text to make it clearly visible against the crowded background. In the image below Textmask has not been applied for the first case and in the second case, it has been applied.

If you want to merge layers of multiple objects then this command is for you. Select any object of target layer on which you want to transfer the selected objects and press enter again. All the objects of the selected layer will be transferred to the end layer and also the selected layer will be removed.

Using this command you can open the drafting settings window which can be used to change settings related to status bar options like object snap, polar tracking, snap and grid settings. Using this command you can check all the objects which are on a particular layer. When you use LAYWALK command a list with all layers appears on the screen and you can click on any of the layer s from the list and objects from that layer s will only become visible in the drawing area.

This tool was added in the AutoCAD version and it allows you to create center mark easily on a circle or arc. As the name suggests you can add a centerline easily between parallel or intersecting lines using this tool. See the related article for more on Centermark and Centerline tools.

If for some reasons you are looking to use Tablet as pointing and navigation device in AutoCAD then you can use this command to turn the Tablet input on and off.

You can learn more about this command on this AKN page. These commands will help you in making your overall drawing workflow faster and efficient by eliminating the need for using many repetitive tasks.

View Original Translate. English Original X. View Original X. By: Support. Support 0 contributions. BOX Creates a 3D solid box. CUI Manages customized user interface elements such as workspaces, toolbars, menus, shortcut menus and keyboard shortcuts.

FIELD Creates a multiline text object with a field that can be updated automatically as the field value changes. GRID Displays a grid in the current viewport that is not plotted. HIDE Regenerates a three-dimensional wireframe model with hidden lines suppressed. JOIN Joins objects to form a single, unbroken object.

LIST Displays database information for selected objects. PLOT Plots a drawing to a plotter, printer, or file. SNAP Restricts cursor movement to specified intervals. UCS Manages user coordinate systems. VIEW Saves and restores named views, camera views, layout views, and preset views.

Get answers fast from Autodesk support staff and product experts in the forums. Provides a command line interface to the 3D graphics system's configuration settings. Controls the interactive viewing of objects in 3D, using an unconstrained orbit. Displays the rotate grip tool in a 3D view and revolves objects around a base point. Removes the history from 3D solid primitives and composite solids. Moves objects from model space to paper space, or vice versa. Converts lights created in previous releases to lights in AutoCAD format.

Converts materials created in previous releases to materials in AutoCAD format. Copies one or more objects to another layer. Uses clipping boundaries to define a subregion of a DWF underlay. Creates a 2D representation of all 3D objects in the current view. Changes the layer of selected objects to the current layer. Autodesk does not warrant, either expressly or implied, the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information translated by the machine translation service and will not be liable for damages or losses caused by the trust placed in the translation service.

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