TIME

Displays all of the statistics of your current DWG file like creation date, last update, and
edit times.

3DSOUT
Exports a file compatible with 3D Studio [.3ds].

PREVIEW
Similar to print preview in other programs, allows you to see how your paperspace
drawing will plot went sent to a plotter.

PFACE
Creates a 3D mesh vertex by vertex.

SAVEALL & CLOSEALL

The best 2 commands an engineer can hit at the end of his or her workday.

MENUBAR
Toggles you to the old style menu bar.

Ctrl + R
Changes viewports in paperspace.

BATTMAN
Does not signal Batman. Changes the order and properties of block definitions.

FACETRES
Adjust the smoothness of curves on a solid.

QLATTACH
Attaches leader line to MTEXT.

XDWGFADECTL
Quickly changes XREF settings back to normal by setting the value at 0. Will fix “faded”
XREFs in your drawing.

IMAGECLIP
Let’s you “crop” an image in your DWG.

CLASSICXREF
If you miss the old style of XREFs, this is for you.

SETBYLAYER
Sets properties of selected or all objects to BY LAYER.

QSELECT
Let’s you filter your selection to certain objects by object type or other criteria.

BO / BOUNDARY
If you want to split an object in half, simply draw a line through it and use the
BOUNDARY command in each half to create correctly sized polylines and erase the
original objects.

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