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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