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Basic Cadd Commands

The document lists basic CADD commands and their descriptions. It provides shortcuts for common commands like creating a new drawing, saving, copying/pasting, and toggling the command line. Additional commands covered include making simple shapes, editing objects, performing calculations directly in commands, exploding blocks, listing object properties, breaking objects, and inserting blocks in tables.

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Basic Cadd Commands

The document lists basic CADD commands and their descriptions. It provides shortcuts for common commands like creating a new drawing, saving, copying/pasting, and toggling the command line. Additional commands covered include making simple shapes, editing objects, performing calculations directly in commands, exploding blocks, listing object properties, breaking objects, and inserting blocks in tables.

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BASIC CADD COMMANDS

COMMAND DESCRIPTION
New Drawing (CTRL + N) You can use this shortcut to open a new drawing tab
in AutoCAD.
Save Drawing (CTRL + S) You can use this keyboard shortcut to save a drawing
file.
Copy (CTRL + C) Select objects from the drawing area and press Ctrl +
C to copy to objects to the clipboard.
Paste (CTRL + V) To paste the copied objects of the clipboard into the
drawing keeping their original properties, you can
use this keyboard shortcut.
Undo (CTRL + Z) This keyboard shortcut can be used to undo the last
action in your drawing. You can press this shortcut
key multiple times to undo many actions.
Redo (CTRL + Y) This keyboard shortcut can be used to redo the last
undo action which you have performed.
Save as new 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.
Clean Screen (CTRL + 0) Clears screen to show only the drawing area and
hides palettes and tabs. Press it again to reset the
default AutoCAD interface.
Property Palette (CTRL + 1) Select an object and press Ctrl + 1 to open the
properties palette which lists the properties of the
object. You can use this palette to modify most of
the properties of the object too. You can also use the
PR command to open the property palette.
Command Line (CTRL + 9) You can use this keyboard shortcut to toggle the
visibility of the command line. If for some reason
your command line is hidden from the drawing area,
then use this keyboard shortcut to bring it back.
Switch to Next (CTRL + TAB) You can use this keyboard shortcut to cycle through
all open drawing tabs in AutoCAD.
ESC Cancel current command
L It can be used for making simple lines in the
drawing.
C 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.
REG This command can be used to make a region
geometry in AutoCAD.
ELLIPSE As the name suggests, this command can be used to
make an ellipse with the major and minor axis.
ARRAY Using this command you can make Rectangular,
polar or Path array.

COUNT This command shows the number of blocks in a


drawing in tabular form. You can select the entire
drawing or a specific area from the drawing to count
the blocks from.
PEDIT This command will start the Polyline edit tool that
you can use to edit polylines or convert 2D geometry
like lines and arc into a polyline.
MULTIPLE If you want to repeat any command without pressing
enter key then use the MULTIPLE command. To
cancel the repetition of the command press the ESC
key.
‘CAL Using this subcommand you can
perform calculations directly on the
AutoCAD command line even when you are in the
middle of a command. You can start
this subcommand by entering ‘CAL (don’t forget to
add an apostrophe before CAL) while running any
other command.
BURST Explodes the block containing attributes retaining the
attribute setting and its layer definition. This is
especially helpful if you want to retain the text of
attribute after exploding the block.

LIST 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 the drawing area about which you want to
know and press enter again.

BREAK This command can be used to break 2D geometries


at one or two points. It is helpful if you want to break
a curve at the point of intersection with another curve
or if you want to create a gap by breaking a part of
the geometry.
SKETCH You can make a freehand sketch using this
command. You can use Line, Polyline or Spline as
the object type for making this freehand sketch.
DONUT It creates two circles with a filled area in between by
inputting the inner and outer dimensions of the two
circles.
ARCTEXT This command can be used to write arc-aligned text
in AutoCAD. This command has options for
changing text formatting and text alignment direction
along the arc.
TINSERT You can insert a block or a drawing as a block in the
table using this command. You can also fit the block
in the table cell and also justify its location
automatically with TINSERT dialogue box. I have
made a simple table by importing blocks of the
design center as shown in the image below.
MIRRTEXT By default, AutoCAD does not mirror text in the
drawing but if you want to mirror the text of your
drawing then change the value of MIRRTEXT
system variable to 1.

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