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AutoCAD Efficiency Shortcuts

The document provides a list of keyboard shortcuts for common commands in AutoCAD. It is organized into sections for managing screens, toggling drawing modes, general drawing commands, formatting, and 3D commands. The shortcuts allow users to launch commands quickly instead of searching toolbars.

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AutoCAD Efficiency Shortcuts

The document provides a list of keyboard shortcuts for common commands in AutoCAD. It is organized into sections for managing screens, toggling drawing modes, general drawing commands, formatting, and 3D commands. The shortcuts allow users to launch commands quickly instead of searching toolbars.

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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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