


Select objects from the drawing area and press Ctrl + C to copy to objects to the clipboard. If for some reason your command line is hidden from the drawing area, then use this keyboard shortcut to bring it back. You can use this keyboard shortcut to toggle the visibility of the command line. You can use this to open a quick calculator inside the AutoCAD user interface to perform simple and complex calculations using the scientific calculator and also for unit conversion calculations. You can use it to open the design center palette which contains many AutoCAD blocks that can be used directly in your drawing. You can also use the PR command to open the property palette.

You can use this palette to modify most of the properties of the object too. Select an object and press Ctrl + 1 to open the properties palette which lists the properties of the object. Press it again to reset the default AutoCAD interface. Ctrl + 0Ĭlears screen to show only the drawing area and hides palettes and tabs. You can use this keyboard shortcut to save the drawing as a new file, in short, this is the hotkey for “save as” command. You can use this keyboard shortcut to save a drawing file. You can use this shortcut to open a new drawing tab in AutoCAD. In this list, I have included some of the most frequently used and useful keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + N Sources: Press materials received from the company.Keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys are the shortest and quickest way of activating some of the common AutoCAD operations or commands. When you rename or delete an Xref layer in the Xref drawing, it is automatically renamed/deleted when you reload it in the host drawings. To make it easy to see which Xref layers have overrides, a new Xref Overrides layer filter is automatically created as soon as overrides are applied. Specify a Default Layer for Your XrefsĪ new XREFLAYER system variable lets you specify a default layer on which new Xrefs are inserted, so you don’t have to change the Xref’s layer after every insert. This is a faster way to create a view in paper space and saves you from having to adjust the view by zooming in and out. The new View Gallery allows you to insert a named view from the toolbar. The NEWVIEW command creates a named view from what’s displayed in the current viewport, or from a rectangular window you define. With the new views and viewports feature, create views while designing, then quickly insert any of the saved views in a layout. With this new enhancement, preview exactly how your layout will appear post-plot and select desired settings to make changes in real time. The new plot preview area makes plotting more efficient. There are improvements to the user interface layout of the Plot dialog, moving the more frequently used options to the top for easy access.
