GENERAL SHORTCUTS
Q Saves current drawing
Ctrl + D Toggle coordinate display
Ctrl + G Toggle grid
Ctrl + H Toggle pick style
Ctrl + E Cycle isometric planes
Ctrl + F Toggle running object snaps
Keyboard Shortcuts That’ll Increase Your Ctrl + I Toggle cords
Efficiency in AutoCAD E Remove objects from a drawing
One of the easiest ways to become more efficient is to use keyboard X Breaks down a compound object
shortcuts. With these shortcuts, you’ll be able to launch commands
J Join similar objects to form one object
quickly instead of wasting your valuable time searching for them in
the toolbar. Print this cheat sheet or save it to your desktop for easy D Create and modifies dimension styles
access while you commit the AutoCAD shortcuts to memory.
G Create saved sets of objects
Z Zoom
MANAGE SCREEN SHORTCUTS
ESC Cancel current command
Ctrl + 0 Clean screen
Ctrl + 1 Open property palette
TOGGLE DRAWING SHORTCUTS
Ctrl + 2 Design center palette
F1 Display help
Ctrl + 3 Open tool palette
F2 Toggle text screen
Ctrl + 4 Open sheet set palette
F3 Toggle object snap mode
Ctrl + 6 Open DBConnect Manager
F4 Toggle 3DOsnap
Ctrl + 7 Open markup set manager palette
F5 Toggle isoplane
Ctrl + 8 Open quick calc
F6 Toggle dynamic UCS
Ctrl + 9 Open command-line
F7 Toggle grid mode
F8 Toggle ortho mode
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TOGGLE DRAWING SHORTCUTS GENERAL DRAWING SHORTCUTS
F9 Toggle snap mode Ctrl + N New drawing
F10 Toggle polar mode Ctrl + S Save drawing
F11 Toggle object snap tracking Ctrl + O Open drawing
F12 Toggle dynamic input mode Ctrl + P Plot dialog box
A Draw an arc with three points
FORMATTING SHORTCUTS
B Open block dialogue box to make a block
AP Open application load dialogue box
BO Draw a boundary
BE Open the edit block definition dialogue box
I Insert a block into a drawing
BH Open hatch and the gradient dialogue box
C Draw a circle
D Open dimension style manager dialogue box
EL Draw an ellipse
DC Open the design center
REC Draw a rectangle
LA Open layer manager
PL Draw a polyline
LT Open line type manager
POL Draw a polygon
LTS Change the line type scale
L Draw a line
LW Open line weight settings dialogue box
ML Draw multi lines
MA Match properties of an object
DO Draw a solid donut shape
OP Launch options dialogue box
DT Single line text
SSM Open sheet set manager palette
F Draw an arc between two intersecting lines
ST Open text style dialogue box
O Offset an object by the distance
TP Display tool palette
RAY Construction line in one direction
TS Open table style dialogue box
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3D SHORTCUTS
3D Command line 3D solid potions
Box Draw a cube
Cylinder Draw a cylinder
EXT Extrude a face
IN Intersect an object
REV Revolve an object about an axis
RR Open render dialogue box
SE Section
SL Slice a solid
SU Subtract selection from solid
TOR Draw torus shape
UC Display UCS manager dialogue box
UCS UCS command-line options
VPORTS Open viewport dialogue box
WE Draw a wedge
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