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Commands Autocad

This document provides descriptions of various commands in AutoCAD for creating geometric shapes and objects, such as lines, circles, polygons, rectangles, arcs, ellipses, regions, and blocks. It also includes shortcuts for common AutoCAD operations like opening a new drawing, saving, and clearing the screen. Keyboard shortcuts described include Ctrl+N, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Shift+S, Ctrl+0, and Ctrl+1.

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Commands Autocad

This document provides descriptions of various commands in AutoCAD for creating geometric shapes and objects, such as lines, circles, polygons, rectangles, arcs, ellipses, regions, and blocks. It also includes shortcuts for common AutoCAD operations like opening a new drawing, saving, and clearing the screen. Keyboard shortcuts described include Ctrl+N, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Shift+S, Ctrl+0, and Ctrl+1.

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L

It can be used for making simple lines in the drawing.

It is the command used for making a circle in AutoCAD.

PL

This command can be used to make a Polyline in your drawing.

REC

This command will make a rectangle in AutoCAD.

POL

This command can be used to make a polygon with minimum of 3

sides and a maximum of 1024 sides.

ARC

As the name suggests, this command can be used to make an arc

in AutoCAD.

ELLIPSE

As the name suggests, this command can be used to make an

ellipse with the major and minor axis.

REG

This command can be used to make a region geometry in

AutoCAD.

CO

This command is used to copy object(s) in AutoCAD.

ARRAY

Using this command you can make Rectangular, polar or Path

array.

TR

This command is used for trimming a geometry.

OP

Using this command you can open options window which contains

most of the settings of AutoCAD.

SC

This command is used to change the scale of an object.

This command is used for creating a block, the properties of the

block can be defined using the block definition window.


I

This command can be used to insert an existing block or a drawing

as a block in AutoCAD.

ST

Using this command you can open text style window which

controls properties of the default AutoCAD text style.

This command can be used to explode objects like Polyline to

simple lines, an array or a block to a simple geometry etc.

This command can be used to add rounded corners to the sharp

edges of the geometry, these round corners are also called fillets.

CHA

This command can be used to add slant edges to the sharp

corners, these slant edges are also called chamfers.

LA

This command can be used to open layer properties manage

palette which is a tool for creating and managing layers in a

drawing.

Keyboard Shortcut Keys

Keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys are the shortest and quickest way

of activating some of the common AutoCAD operations or

commands. In this list, I have included some of the most

frequently used and useful keyboard shortcuts.

Ctrl + N

You can use this shortcut to open a new drawing tab in AutoCAD.

Ctrl + S

You can use this keyboard shortcut to save a drawing file.

Ctrl + Shift + S

You can use this keyboard shortcut to save the drawing as a new

file, in short, this is the hotkey for “save as” command.

Ctrl + 0

Clears screen to show only the drawing area and hides palettes

and tabs. Press it again to reset default AutoCAD interface.

Ctrl + 1
Select and object and press Ctrl + 1 to open the properties palette

which lists properties of the object. You can use this palette to

modify most of the properties of the object too. You can also use

PR command to open the property palette.

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