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AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts

CADDManager on July 29th, 2008 Here is a list of the shortcuts that can be used in AutoCAD (or ACA) ALT+F8 ALT+F11 VBA Run VBA Editor
CTRL+1 Properties Palette CTRL+2 DesignCenter Palette CTRL+3 Tool Palette CTRL+4 Sheet Set Manager Palette CTRL+5 Info Palette CTRL+6 DBConnect Manager CTRL+7 Markup Set Manager Palette CTRL+A Selects objects in drawing CTRL+B Toggles Snap CTRL+C Copies objects to Clipboard CTRL+SHFT+C Copies objects to Clipboard with Base Point CTRL+D Toggles coordinate display CTRL+E Cycles through isometric planes CTRL+F Toggles running object snaps CTRL+G Toggles Grid CTRL+H Toggles PICKSTYLE on/off CTRL+J Executes last command CTRL+K Hyperlink CTRL+L Toggles Ortho mode CTRL+M (No action) CTRL+N Creates a new drawing CTRL+O Opens existing drawing CTRL+P Prints current drawing CTRL+Q Exit CTRL+R Cycles layout viewports CTRL+S Saves current drawing
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CTRL+SHFT+S Saveas CTRL+T Toggles Tablet mode CTRL+V Pastes data from Clipboard CTRL+SHFT+V Pastes data from Clipboard as Block CTRL+X Cuts objects to Clipboard CTRL+Y Repeats last action CTRL+Z Reverses last action CTRL+[ Cancels current command CTRL+\ Cancels current command F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 Displays Help Toggles text window on/off Toggles OSNAP Toggles TABMODE Toggles ISOPLANE Toggles COORDS Toggles GRIDMODE Toggles ORTHO MODE Toggles SNAP MODE Toggles POLAR Toggles OTRACK
3A 3DARRAY 3DO 3DORBIT 3DW 3DWALK 3F 3DFACE 3M 3DMOVE 3P 3DPOLY 3R 3DROTATE A ARC AC BACTION ADC ADCENTER AA AREA AL ALIGN 3AL 3DALIGN AP APPLOAD AR ARRAY -AR -ARRAY ATI ATTIPEDIT ATT ATTDEF -ATT -ATTDEF ATE ATTEDIT -ATE -ATTEDIT ATTE -ATTEDIT B BLOCK -B -BLOCK BC BCLOSE BE BEDIT BH HATCH BO BOUNDARY -BO -BOUNDARY BR BREAK BS BSAVE BVS BVSTATE C CIRCLE
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CAM CH -CH CHA CHK CLI COL CO CP CT CYL D DAL DAN DAR JOG DBA DBC DC DCE DCO DDA DDI DED DI DIV DJL DJO DL DLI DLU DO DOR DOV DR DRA DRE DRM DS DST DT DV DX E ED EL ER EX EXIT EXP EXT F FI G -G
CAMERA PROPERTIES CHANGE CHAMFER CHECKSTANDARDS COMMANDLINE COLOR COPY COPY CTABLESTYLE CYLINDER DIMSTYLE DIMALIGNED DIMANGULAR DIMARC DIMJOGGED DIMBASELINE DBCONNECT ADCENTER DIMCENTER DIMCONTINUE DIMDISASSOCIATE DIMDIAMETER DIMEDIT DIST DIVIDE DIMJOGLINE DIMJOGGED DATALINK DIMLINEAR DATALINKUPDATE DONUT DIMORDINATE DIMOVERRIDE DRAWORDER DIMRADIUS DIMREASSOCIATE DRAWINGRECOVERY DSETTINGS DIMSTYLE TEXT DVIEW DATAEXTRACTION ERASE DDEDIT ELLIPSE EXTERNALREFERENCES EXTEND QUIT EXPORT EXTRUDE FILLET FILTER GROUP -GROUP
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GD GR H -H HE HI I -I IAD IAT ICL IM -IM IMP IN INF IO J L LA -LA LAS LE LEN LI LO LS LT -LT LTS LW M MA MAT ME MI ML MLA MLC MLD MLE MLS MO MS MSM MT MV O OP ORBIT OS -OS P -P PA
GRADIENT DDGRIPS HATCH -HATCH HATCHEDIT HIDE INSERT -INSERT IMAGEADJUST IMAGEATTACH IMAGECLIP IMAGE -IMAGE IMPORT INTERSECT INTERFERE INSERTOBJ JOIN LINE LAYER -LAYER LAYERSTATE QLEADER LENGTHEN LIST -LAYOUT LIST LINETYPE -LINETYPE LTSCALE LWEIGHT MOVE MATCHPROP MATERIALS MEASURE MIRROR MLINE MLEADERALIGN MLEADERCOLLECT MLEADER MLEADEREDIT MLEADERSTYLE PROPERTIES MSPACE MARKUP MTEXT MVIEW OFFSET OPTIONS 3DORBIT OSNAP -OSNAP PAN -PAN PASTESPEC
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PE PL PO POL PR PROPS PRE PRINT PS PSOLID PTW PU -PU PYR QC QCUI R RA RC RE REA REC REG REN -REN REV RO RP RPR RR RW S SC SCR SE SEC SET SHA SL SN SO SP SPL SPLANE SPE SSM ST STA SU T -T TA TB TH TI
PEDIT PLINE POINT POLYGON PROPERTIES PROPERTIES PREVIEW PLOT PSPACE POLYSOLID PUBLISHTOWEB PURGE -PURGE PYRAMID QUICKCALC QUICKCUI REDRAW REDRAWALL RENDERCROP REGEN REGENALL RECTANG REGION RENAME -RENAME REVOLVE ROTATE RENDERPRESETS RPREF RENDER RENDERWIN STRETCH SCALE SCRIPT DSETTINGS SECTION SETVAR SHADEMODE SLICE SNAP SOLID SPELL SPLINE SECTIONPLANE SPLINEDIT SHEETSET STYLE STANDARDS SUBTRACT MTEXT -MTEXT TABLET TABLE THICKNESS TILEMODE
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TO TOL TOR TP TR TS UC UN -UN UNI V -V VP -VP VS VSM -VSM W -W WE X XA XB -XB XC XL XR -XR Z
TOOLBAR TOLERANCE TORUS TOOLPALETTES TRIM TABLESTYLE UCSMAN UNITS -UNITS UNION VIEW -VIEW DDVPOINT VPOINT VSCURRENT VISUALSTYLES -VISUALSTYLES WBLOCK -WBLOCK WEDGE EXPLODE XATTACH XBIND -XBIND XCLIP XLINE XREF -XREF ZOOM
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25 Responses to AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts
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Richard Binning
August 1st, 2008 at 11:42 am
FYI I havent been able to get Alt + F11 to open VBA since release 2005 in ADT or ACA versionsworks fine in Vanilla AutoCAD (Dont hate me Eric) Heres one missing from your list: Use the ~ (tilde) symbol to open dialogs when theyve been disabled or turned off via filedia or cmddia variables.
2. bitdraughty
October 21st, 2008 at 6:32 am
Do you know how to modify the shortcutsfor your express tools ? For example i would like to change the of layer isolate to LI
3. Amy
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:19 pm
I too am trying to figure out how you modify these shortcuts for your express tools, please advise. Thanks, Amy
4. Noriko Marshall
November 29th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Tools > Customize > Edit Program Parameters This notepad file can be copied and transfered to other computers. It is very useful because it is portable. My coworker taught me last week.
5. Noriko Marshall
If I were you, I would make sure there are no duplicates on the list. For example, LI is already taken. You might find work-around, but I would assign other command in order not to confuse the system.
6. shady
January 17th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
thx .u r soooo kind
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7. Nicole Coops
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Hi I have recently started working with a company that operates AutoCAD 2006 on a MAC by using a parallels system. The problem is that my shortcuts dont work ie. ortho & osnap being the most important. Does anyone know how I can get these shortcuts to work??
8. elyse
February 11th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
ORTHO for Mac is control+shift then o
9. MIKE
March 7th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
GO TO TOOLS, CUSTOMIZE, ACADPGP THEN YOULL SEE ALL THE COMMAND SHORTCUT- HOW TO EDIT RIGHT CLICK HIGHLIGHT THE SHORTCUT COMMANDS AND CHANGE IT TO YOUR SHORTCUT COMMAND LET SAY REC RECTANGLE CHANGE IT TO RC BUT MAKE SURE WHEN YOU CHANGE THE SHORTCUT IT DOESNT HAVE THE SAME DEFAULT SHORTCUT COMMAND OF YOUR AUTOCAD AFTER YOUVE DONE IT SAVE AND CLOSE YOUR AUTOCAD PROGRAM THEN OPEN IT AGAIN AND TYPE YOUR UPDATE COMMAND YOULL NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE HOPE IT WILL HELP YOU THANKS
10. frank
May 6th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
dc for design center
11. frank
May 6th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
the space bar repeats the last task
12. Ray
June 4th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
When editing acad.pgp, it is a good idea to place your new aliases at the bottom in the User Defined Command Aliases section for successful migration when you upgrade to the next version of ACAD.
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Also, I believe that those in the bottom section will take precedence over the ones above.
13. mansawi b. macadaag

June 10th, 2009 at 6:17 am
im mansawi b. macadaag of Philippines, tnx to all, your info are very very important.
14. Julie DK
June 30th, 2009 at 2:17 am
CTRL+TAB to jump between open drawings. ALT+TAB to jump between open applications.
15. Ramesh Babu

August 13th, 2009 at 12:30 am
I like this shortcuts commands
16. solomon
September 25th, 2009 at 3:20 am
hi, I have installed ADT2006. First, the menu bars have not loaded when i start but fixed it with cuiload command. then when i try the general keyboard commands, none worklike PL, CO etc. How do i fix it?
17. santosh
October 16th, 2009 at 4:31 am
thank u
18. Husny
huy huy. thank for alll
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vinod
December 6th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Mouse wheel- zoom in and out Double click mouse wheel- zoom extent Shift+ mouse wheel pressed 3d orbit
20. rainrainrain
December 11th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
how about PAN? What is the shortcut key instead of typing in command?
21. doyle
December 30th, 2009 at 7:36 am
PAN- P or MMB(Middle Mouse Button) click-and-drag. Good luck.
22. MUTHU
April 5th, 2010 at 8:14 am
very useful for us thank you..
23. Deepu Vaz

April 18th, 2010 at 9:56 pm
can u tell me wat is VBA and wat is the use of this?
24. CADDManager
April 25th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Deepu, VBA is Visual Basic for Applications and is available to use inside AutoCAD for more advanced programming than just AutoLISP.
25. Muhammad Younus

April 26th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
Hi Friend, I live in Pakistan Countray,So i looked your desing auto cad short comand,Could you tell me that.is it better course for Future.
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this time i am working in Office.Pleze guide me. Thanks sir
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