AutoCAD 2D Mastering Course

COORDINATE ENTRY
#X,Y Location measured by distance from 0,0 in current UCS

@X,Y Location measured by distance from last point

distance<angle Location measured by distance and angle from 0,0 in current UCS

@distance<angl Location measured by distance and angle from last point

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.x or.y or .xy etc. Location by extracting and combining coordinate values from 2 or 3 points

distance Location direct from current position in direction of movement

<angle An angle override from current point

DIMENSIONING
SHORTCUT COMMAND COMMENT

CTRL+8 QUICKCALC Displays the calculator

D DIMSTYLE Opens dimension style manager dialogue box

DAL DIMALIGNED Aligned linear dimension line

DAN DIMANGULAR Angular dimension line

DAR DIMARC Arc length dimension

DBA DIMBASELINE Ordinate dimension from baseline of previous dimension

DCO DIMCONTINUE Ordinate dimension from 2nd extension line of previous

dimension

DDI DIMDIAMETER Diameter dimension for circles and arcs

DED DIMEDIT Edit dimension text on dimension objects

DI DIST Check a distance

DIMCENTER DIMCENTER Creates center mark

DLI DIMLINEAR Linear dimension

DOR DIMORDINATE Ordinate point dimension

DOV DIMOVERRIDE Override dimension style

DRA DIMRADIUS Radial dimension for circles and arcs

ID ID Display the co-ordinate values of a point

UN UNITS Opens drawing units dialogue box

DRAW ING OBJECTS

SHORTCUT COMMAND COMMENT

A ARC Draw an arc with 3 points

B BLOCK Opens block dialogue box in order to make a block

BO BOUNDARY Draw a boundary

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C CIRCLE Draw a circle

DO DONUT Draw a solid donut shape

DT TEXT Single line text

DIV DIVIDE Inserts point node a set division

EL ELLIPSE Draw an ellipse

F FILLET Draw an arc between 2 intersecting lines

G GROUP Opens object grouping dialogue

H HATCH Opens hatch and gradient dialogue box

L LINE Draw a line

LE QLEADER Draw a leader line (may need to adjust settings)

LEAD LEADER Leader line with annotation

ML MLINE Draw multilines

O OFFSET Offset an object by distance

PL PLINE Draw a polyline - a complex line

PO POINT Point marker or node - DDPTYPE to change pointstyle

POL POLYGON Draw a regular polygon 3 to 1024 sides

RAY RAY Construction line in one direction

REC RECTANG Draw a rectangle

REG REGION Region - for shading for example

REVCLOUD REVCLOUD Revision cloud - note can select a polyline

SPL SPLINE Spline or smooth curve along points

T MTEXT Multi-line text

WIPEOUT WIPEOUT Masks part of drawing for clarity

XL XLINE Construction line of infinite length

FORMATTING
SHORTCUT COMMAND COMMENT

D DIMSTYLE Opens dimension style manager dialogue box

DC ADCENTER Opens designcenter

DDPTYPE DDPTYPE Opens point style dialogue box

LAYER
LA Opens layer manager

LT DDLTYPE Opens line type manager

LTS LTSCALE Change the linetype scale

LW LWEIGHT Opens line weight settings dialogue box

MA MATCHPROPERTIES Match properties of an object

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OP OPTIONS Launches options dialogue box

OS DDOSNAP Opens drafting settings object snap dialogue

PR DDCHPROP Opens properties dialogue box

ST DDSTYLE Opens text style dialogue box

TP TOOLPALETTES Displays toolpalette

TS TABLESTYLE Opens table style dialogue box

FUNCTION KEYS
SHORTCUT COMMAND COMMENT

F1 HELP Opens Autocad help

F2 TEXTSCR Switches between text screen and graphic area

GRAPHSCR

F3 OSNAP Switches osnap on/off

F6 or CTRL+D COORDS Turns coordinate display on/off

F7 or CTRL+G GRID Turns grid on/off

F8 or CTRL+L ORTHO Turns ortho on/off

F9 or CTRL+B SNAP Turns snap on/off

F10 or CTRL+U POLAR Turns polar on/off

F11 or OSNAP TRACK Turns object snap tracking on/off

CTRL+W

F12 DYNMODE Turns dynamic input on/off

INQUIRY
SHORTCUT COMMAND COMMENT

AA AREA Calculate the area

DI DIST Calculate a distance and angle

DDPTYPE DDPTYPE Opens point style dialogue box

ID ID Display the co-ordinate values of a point

LI or LS LIST Display information about objects in a text window

MASSPROP MASSPROP Calculate the region/mass properties of a solid

PR PROPERTIES Opens properties dialogue box

WHOHAS WHOHAS Displays who has a drawing open

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MODIFYING OBJECTS
SHORTCUT COMMAND COMMENT

AL ALIGN Align an object with another

AR ARRAY Make multiple copies of an object

BR BREAK Break a line by defining 2 points

CO or CP COPY Copy object

CHA CHAMFER Chamfer between 2 non-parallel lines

E ERASE Erase selection

EX EXTEND Extend a line to meet another

F FILLET Draw an arc between 2 intersecting lines

M MOVE Move an object

MI MIRROR Mirror an object

O OFFSET Offset an object by distance

RO ROTATE Rotate an object

S STRETCH Stretch an object

SC SCALE Scale an object

TR TRIM Trim objects

X EXPLODE Explode single entity to component parts

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