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Top 50 Autocad Shortcuts Architects Need To Know: Chspace

This document provides a list of 50 important AutoCAD shortcuts, commands, and tricks. Some of the most useful ones mentioned include CHSPACE for moving objects between layout and model space, BURST for exploding blocks without losing attributes, OOPS for undoing deletes far back in the drawing history, and R/REDRAW for refreshing drawings. It also discusses shortcuts for quick dimensioning with QDIM, recovering damaged files with RECOVER, setting layers for non-plotting notes with DEFPOINTS, and changing text case quickly. The document aims to collect helpful AutoCAD tips from across the web to improve productivity for users of all experience levels.

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Top 50 Autocad Shortcuts Architects Need To Know: Chspace

This document provides a list of 50 important AutoCAD shortcuts, commands, and tricks. Some of the most useful ones mentioned include CHSPACE for moving objects between layout and model space, BURST for exploding blocks without losing attributes, OOPS for undoing deletes far back in the drawing history, and R/REDRAW for refreshing drawings. It also discusses shortcuts for quick dimensioning with QDIM, recovering damaged files with RECOVER, setting layers for non-plotting notes with DEFPOINTS, and changing text case quickly. The document aims to collect helpful AutoCAD tips from across the web to improve productivity for users of all experience levels.

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Top 50 AutoCAD Shortcuts Architects


Need to Know
AutoCAD is one of the most used engineering programs across the world, and it’s likely that you
have come in contact with the program sometime in your career.  For all the AutoCAD users out
there, from new to expert, interestingengineering.com has collected the top 50 AutoCAD
shortcuts, tricks, and commands from across the web in the following list!
CHSPACE
Allows you to move objects in a drawing from layout to model space by choosing a viewport
to push the text or objects into. This works in both directions.

BURST
BURST allows you to explode a block/object without losing any of its attributes.

NCOPY
Copies linework or objects from a nested object into your current drawing. Especially useful
for bringing XREF linework into current drawings.

OOPS
OOPS does exactly what you think it does, it fixes your mistake (as long as it’s a delete) no
matter how far back it was. Instead of using CTRL-Z, OOPS undoes your last erase
command without affecting any work you have done since then.

FILEDIA
Setting this value to 1 allows dialog boxes to open in AutoCAD, setting it to 0 means
everything is done in the command line.

APPLOAD
Allows you to set which application to load in conjunction with opening AutoCAD.

Work with Images


Instead of scaling and rotating images each time, simply insert the image into a blank
drawing and set its position, scale, and rotation. After your image is how you want it, save
the drawing. This lets you insert that image as a drawing, instead of the image, and all
settings are kept the same. Especially useful for images like company logos, etc.

R / REDRAW
Refreshes the drawing in the viewport.

DIMBASELINE
Creates a dimension that starts from a baseline of earlier dimensions that is linear, angular
or coordinate.

ID
Displays point coordinates throughout your worksheet.

Autoscale Setting
You can adjust your default scale factor by setting the Auxiliary scale factor to Plot Scale or
Dimscale.

OVERKILL
Deletes any duplicate or overlapping items. Perfect for the AutoCAD perfectionists out
there.

QDIM
Quick dimension creation after object selection.

RECOVER
Recovers a damaged file.

Default NO PLOT Layer


Creates a layer called DEFPOINTS. Anything on this layer will show up in model and paper
space, but won’t plot. Perfect for adding notes.

TORIENT
Orients text to a specified angle or most readable angle. Also works on Block Attributes.
RULESURF
Quickly creates a surface between two predefined curves.

Importing Block Definitions


After the INSERT command and selecting the file, press the ESC key at your first prompt.
Definitions will be kept in your drawing to reference later.

SPELL
For all those engineers out there that can’t spell, use this to spell check all your text. (Uses
your computer language settings)

XCLIP
Trims a block’s visible area using a boundary line. Use the command first, then set or draw
the boundary.

U
A quicker “undo” than CTRL Z.

Stop REGEN After PAN


For drawings not created by you, AutoCAD can sometimes autoregen after you pan around.
To keep this from happening, use the VIEWRES command and type YES to fast zooms,
then set your zoom percent to 200.

MATLIB
Imports and exports materials to a library.

WIPEOUT
Allows you to set boundaries on top of lines and objects that “wipe out” everything behind it.
Like a reverse hatch. It’s a good idea to put all your wipeouts on one layer so you can turn
them on and off as you wish.

One Key Shortcut


Want to know all of the one key AutoCAD shortcuts? Autodesk put together this quick guide
that assembles them all into one sheet. You can check it out here on the Autodesk website,
or below.
[Image Source: Autodesk]
Change Your MText to Lower Case or Upper Case
Instead of retyping MText if you forgot to capitalize it, right click and select CHANGE
CASE. Or use CTRL + SHIFT + U  or CTRL + SHIFT + L, for upper case and lower case
respectively.

DIMROTATED
Aligns dimensions to objects that are staggered where DIMALIGNED falls short.

BOX
Creates a 3D box and defines height, depth, and width.

COLOR
Chooses a layer color for future objects/lines/blocks.

DIMALIGNED
Creates a dimension aligned with an axis or a line.

LIGHT
Let’s you modify the lighting effects on 3D models.

MLEDIT
Edits multiple parallel lines at once.

PAGESETUP
Allows you to set up your paper in paperspace. Useful for changing your designed plot
paper size. This is one of my most used AutoCAD tricks.

SKETCH
Creates freehand drawing lines.

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