Toggles and screen management

Below, you'll find an abbreviated list of commands that can be used in AutoCAD.

Toggle General Features

Ctrl+d

Toggle coordinate display

Ctrl+g

Toggle Grid

Ctrl+e

Cycle isometric planes

Ctrl+f

Toggle running object snaps

Ctrl+h

Toggle Pick Style

Ctrl+Shi +h

Toggle Hide pallets

Ctrl+i

Toggle Coords

Ctrl+Shi +i

Toggle Infer Constraints

Toggle Drawing Modes

F1

Display Help
F2

Toggle text screen

F3

Toggle object snap mode

F4

Toggle 3DOsnap

F5

Toggle Isoplane

F6

Toggle Dynamic UCS

F7

Toggle grid mode

F8

Toggle ortho mode

F9

Toggle snap mode

F10

Toggle polar mode

F11

Toggle object snap tracking

Toggle dynamic input mode

Manage Screen

Ctrl+0 (Zero)

Clean Screen

Ctrl+1

Property Pale e

Ctrl+2

Design Center Pale e

Ctrl+3

Toggle Pale e

Ctrl+4

Sheet Set Pale e

Ctrl+6

DBConnect Manager

Ctrl+7

Markup Set Manager Pale e

Ctrl+8
Quick Calc

Ctrl+9

Command Line

Manage Workflow

Ctrl+c

Copy object

Ctrl+x

Cut object

Ctrl+v

Paste object

Ctrl+Shi +c

Copy to clipboard with base point

Ctrl+Shi +v

Paste data as block

Undo last ac on

Ctrl+y

Redo last ac on

Ctrl+[

Cancel current command (or ctrl+\)

ESC

Cancel current command

Manage Drawings

Ctrl+n

New Drawing

Ctrl+s

Save drawing
Ctrl+o

Open drawing

Ctrl+p

Plot dialog box

Ctrl+Tab

Switch to next

Ctrl+Shi +Tab

Switch to previous drawing

Ctrl+Page Up

Switch to previous tab in current drawing

Ctrl+Page Down

Switch to next tab in current drawing

Ctrl+q

Exit

Ctrl+a

Select all objects

HOT KEYS A–C

A
A

ARC / Creates an arc.

AA

AREA / Calculates the area and perimeter of objects or of defined areas.

ADC

ADCENTER / Manages and inserts content such as blocks, xrefs, and hatch pa erns.

AL

ALIGN / Aligns objects with other objects in 2D and 3D.

AP

APPLOAD / Load Applica on.

AR

ARRAY / Creates mul ple copies of objects in a pa ern.

ARR

ACTRECORD / Starts the Ac on Recorder.

ARM

ACTUSERMESSAGE / Inserts a user message into an ac on macro.

ARU

ACTUSERINPUT / Pauses for user input in an ac on macro.

ACTSTOP / Stops the Ac on Recorder and provides the op on of saving the recorded ac ons to an
ac on macro file.

ATI

ATTIPEDIT / Changes the textual content of an a ribute within a block.

ATT

ATTDEF / Redefines a block and updates associated a ributes.

ATE

ATTEDIT / Changes a ribute informa on in a block.

BLOCK / Creates a block defini on from selected objects.

BC

BCLOSE / Closes the Block Editor.

BE

BEDIT / Opens the block defini on in the Block Editor.

BH

HATCH / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pa ern, solid fill, or gradient fill.

BO

BOUNDARY / Creates a region or a polyline from an enclosed area.

BR

BREAK / Breaks the selected object between two points.

BSAVE / Saves the current block defini on.

BVS

BVSTATE / Creates, sets, or deletes a visibility state in a dynamic block.

CIRCLE / Creates a circle.

CAM

CAMERA / Sets a camera and target loca on to create and save a 3D perspec ve view of objects.

CBAR

CONSTRAINTBAR / A toolbar-like UI element that displays the available geometric constraints on an

CH

PROPERTIES / Controls proper es of exis ng objects.

CHA

CHAMFER / Bevels the edges of objects.

CHK

CHECKSTANDARDS / Checks the current drawing for standards viola ons.

CLI

COMMANDLINE / Displays the Command Line window.

COL

COLOR / Sets the color for new objects.

COPY / Copies objects a specified distance in a specified direc on.

CT

CTABLESTYLE / Sets the name of the current table style.

CUBE

NAVVCUBE / Controls the visibility and display proper es of the ViewCube tool.

CYL

CYLINDER / Creates a 3D solid cylinder.

HOT KEYS D-F

DIMSTYLE / Creates and modifies dimension styles.

DAN

DIMANGULAR / Creates an angular dimension.

DAR

DIMARC / Creates an arc length dimension.

DBA

DIMBASELINE / Creates a linear, angular, or ordinate dimension from the baseline of the previous or
selected dimension.

DBC

DBCONNECT / Provides an interface to external database tables.

DIMCENTER / Creates the center mark or the centerlines of circles and arcs.

DCO

DIMCONTINUE / Creates a dimension that starts from an extension line of a previously created
dimension.

DCON

DIMCONSTRAINT / Applies dimensional constraints to selected objects or points on objects.

DDA

DIMDISASSOCIATE / Removes associa vity from selected dimensions.

DDI

DIMDIAMETER / Creates a diameter dimension for a circle or an arc.

DED

DIMEDIT / Edits dimension text and extension lines.

DI

DIST / Measures the distance and angle between two points.

DIV

DIVIDE / Creates evenly spaced point objects or blocks along the length or perimeter of an object.

DJL

DIMJOGLINE / Adds or removes a jog line on a linear or aligned dimension.

DIMJOGGED / Creates jogged dimensions for circles and arcs.

DL

DATALINK / The Data Link dialog box is displayed.

DLU

DATALINKUPDATE / Updates data to or from an established external data link.

DO

DONUT / Creates a filled circle or a wide ring.

DOR

DIMORDINATE / Creates ordinate dimensions.

DOV

DIMOVERRIDE / Controls overrides of system variables used in selected dimensions.

DR

DRAWORDER / Changes the draw order of images and other objects.

DRA

DIMRADIUS / Creates a radius dimension for a circle or an arc.

DRE

DIMREASSOCIATE / Associates or re-associates selected dimensions to objects or points on objects.

DRM

DRAWINGRECOVERY / Displays a list of drawing files that can be recovered a er a program or system
failure.
DS

DSETTINGS / Sets grid and snap, polar and object snap tracking, object snap modes, Dynamic Input,
and Quick Proper es.

DT

TEXT / Creates a single-line text object.

DV

DVIEW / Defines parallel projec on or perspec ve views by using a camera and target.

DX

DATAEXTRACTION / Extracts drawing data and merges data from an external source to a data
extrac on table or external file.

ERASE / Removes objects from a drawing.

ED

DDEDIT / Edits single-line text, dimension text, a ribute defini ons, and feature control frames.

EL

ELLIPSE / Creates an ellipse or an ellip cal arc.

EPDF

EXPORTPDF / Exports drawing to PDF.

ER

EXTERNALREFERENCES / Opens the External References pale e.

EX

EXTEND / Extends objects to meet the edges of other objects.

QUIT / Exits the program.

EXP

EXPORT / Saves the objects in a drawing to a different file format.

EXT

EXTRUDE / Extends the dimensions of a 2D object or 3D face into 3D space.

FILLET / Rounds and fillets the edges of objects.

FI

FILTER / Creates a list of requirements that an object must meet to be included in a selec on set.

FS

FSMODE / Creates a selec on set of all objects that touch the selected object.

FSHOT

FLATSHOT / Creates a 2D representa on of all 3D objects based on the current view.

HOT KEYS G-I

GROUP / Creates and manages saved sets of objects called groups.

GCON

GEOCONSTRAINT / Applies or persists geometric rela onships between objects or points on objects.

GD

GRADIENT / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a gradient fill.

GEOGRAPHICLOCATION / Specifies the geographic loca on informa on for a drawing file.

HATCH / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pa ern, solid fill, or gradient fill.

HE

HATCHEDIT / Modifies an exis ng hatch or fill.

HI

HIDE / Regenerates a 3D wireframe model with hidden lines suppressed.

INSERT / Inserts a block or drawing into the current drawing.

IAD

IMAGEADJUST / Controls the image display of the brightness, contrast, and fade values of images.

IAT

IMAGEATTACH / Inserts a reference to an image file.

ICL

IMAGECLIP / Crops the display of a selected image to a specified boundary.

ID / Displays the UCS coordinate values of a specified loca on.

IM

IMAGE / Displays the External References pale e.

IMP

IMPORT / Imports files of different formats into the current drawing.

IN

INTERSECT / Creates a 3D solid, surface, or 2D region from overlapping solids, surfaces, or regions.

INF

INTERFERE / Creates a temporary 3D solid from the interferences between two sets of selected 3D
solids.

IO

INSERTOBJ / Inserts a linked or embedded object.

HOT KEYS J-L

JOIN / Joins similar objects to form a single, unbroken object.

JOG

DIMJOGGED / Creates jogged dimensions for circles and arcs.

LINE / Creates straight line segments.

LA
LAYER / Manages layers and layer proper es.

LAS

LAYERSTATE / Saves, restores, and manages named layer states.

LE

QLEADER / Creates a leader and leader annota on.

LEN

LENGTHEN / Changes the length of objects and the included angle of arcs.

LESS

MESHSMOOTHLESS / Decreases the level of smoothness for mesh objects by one level.

LI

LIST / Displays property data for selected objects.

LO

LAYOUT / Creates and modifies drawing layout tabs.

LT

LINETYPE / Loads, sets, and modifies linetypes.

LTS

LTSCALE / Changes the scale factor of linetypes for all objects in a drawing.

LW

LWEIGHT / Sets the current lineweight, lineweight display op ons, and lineweight units.

HOT KEYS M-O

M
MOVE / Moves objects a specified distance in a specified direc on.

MA

MATCHPROP / Applies the proper es of a selected object to other objects.

MAT

MATERIALS / Shows or hides the Materials window.

ME

MEASURE / Creates point objects or blocks at measured intervals along the length or perimeter of an
object.

MEA

MEASUREGEOM / Measures the distance, radius, angle, area, and volume of selected objects or
sequence of points.

MI

MIRROR / Creates a mirrored copy of selected objects.

ML

MLINE / Creates mul ple parallel lines..

MLA

MLEADERALIGN / Aligns and spaces selected mul leader objects.

MLC

MLEADERCOLLECT / Organizes selected mul leaders that contain blocks into rows or columns, and
displays the result with a single leader.
MLD

MLEADER / Creates a mul leader object.

MLE

MLEADEREDIT / Adds leader lines to, or removes leader lines from, a mul leader object.

MLS

MLEADERSTYLE / Creates and modifies mul leader styles.

MO

PROPERTIES / Controls proper es of exis ng objects.

MORE

MESHSMOOTHMORE / Increases the level of smoothness for mesh objects by one level.

MS

MSPACE / Switches from paper space to a model space viewport.

MSM

MARKUP / Opens the Markup Set Manager.

MT

MTEXT / Creates a mul line text object.

MV

MVIEW / Creates and controls layout viewports.

NORTH

GEOGRAPHICLOCATION / Specifies the geographic loca on informa on for a drawing file.

NEWSHOT / Creates a named view with mo on that is played back when viewed with ShowMo on.

NVIEW

NEWVIEW / Creates a named view with no mo on.

OFFSET / Creates concentric circles, parallel lines, and parallel curves.

OP

OPTIONS / Customizes the program se ngs.

ORBIT

3DORBIT / Rotates the view in 3D space, but constrained to horizontal and ver cal orbit only.

OS

OSNAP / Sets running object snap modes.

HOT KEYS P-R

PAN / Adds a parameter with grips to a dynamic block defini on.

PA

PASTESPEC / Pastes objects from the Clipboard into the current drawing and controls the format of
the data.

PAR

PARAMETERS / Controls the associa ve parameters used in the drawing.

PARAM
BPARAMETER / Adds a parameter with grips to a dynamic block defini on.

PATCH

SURFPATCH / Creates a new surface by fi ng a cap over a surface edge that forms a closed loop.

PC

POINTCLOUD / Provides op ons to create and a ach point cloud files.

PCATTACH

POINTCLOUDATTACH / Inserts an indexed point cloud file into the current drawing.

PCINDEX

POINTCLOUDINDEX / Creates an indexed point cloud (PCG or ISD) file from a scan file.

PE

PEDIT / Edits polylines and 3D polygon meshes.

PL

PLINE / Creates a 2D polyline.

PO

POINT / Creates a point object.

POFF

HIDEPALETTES / Hides currently displayed pale es (including the command line).

POLYGON / Creates an equilateral closed polyline.

PON

SHOWPALETTES / Restores the display of hidden pale es.

PR

PROPERTIES / Displays Proper es pale e.

PRE

PREVIEW / Displays the drawing as it will be plo ed.

PRINT

PLOT / Plots a drawing to a plo er, printer, or file.

PS

PSPACE / Switches from a model space viewport to paper space.

PSOLID

POLYSOLID / Creates a 3D wall-like polysolid.

PU

PURGE / Removes unused items, such as block defini ons and layers, from the drawing.

PYR

PYRAMID / Creates a 3D solid pyramid.

QC

QUICKCALC / Opens the QuickCalc calculator.

QCUI
QUICKCUI / Displays the Customize User Interface Editor in a collapsed state.

QP

QUICKPROPERTIES / Displays open drawings and layouts in a drawing in preview images.

QSAVE

QSAVE / Saves the current drawing.

QVD

QVDRAWING / Displays open drawings and layouts in a drawing using preview images.

QVDC

QVDRAWINGCLOSE / Closes preview images of open drawings and layouts in a drawing.

QVL

QVLAYOUT / Displays preview images of model space and layouts in a drawing.

QVLC

QVLAYOUTCLOSE / Closes preview images of model space and layouts in the current drawing.

REDRAW / Refreshes the display in the current viewport.

RA

REDRAWALL / Refreshes the display in all viewports.

RC

RENDERCROP / Renders a specified rectangular area, called a crop window, within a viewport.

RE

REGEN / Regenerates the en re drawing from the current viewport.

REGENALL / Regenerates the drawing and refreshes all viewports.

REC

RECTANG / Creates a rectangular polyline.

REG

REGION / Converts an object that encloses an area into a region object.

REN

RENAME / Changes the names assigned to items such as layers and dimension styles.

REV

REVOLVE / Creates a 3D solid or surface by sweeping a 2D object around an axis.

RO

ROTATE / Rotates objects around a base point.

RP

RENDERPRESETS / Specifies render presets, reusable rendering parameters, for rendering an image.

RPR

RPREF / Displays or hides the Advanced Render Se ngs pale e for access to advanced rendering
se ngs.

RR

RENDER / Creates a photorealis c or realis cally shaded image of a 3D solid or surface model.

RW

RENDERWIN / Displays the Render window without star ng a rendering opera on.
HOT KEYS S-U

STRETCH / Stretches objects crossed by a selec on window or polygon.

SC

SCALE / Enlarges or reduces selected objects, keeping the propor ons of the object the same a er
scaling.

SCR

SCRIPT / Executes a sequence of commands from a script file.

SEC

SECTION / Uses the intersec on of a plane and solids, surfaces, or mesh to create a region.

SET

SETVAR / Lists or changes the values of system variables.

SHA

SHADEMODE / Starts the VSCURRENT command..

SL

SLICE / Creates new 3D solids and surfaces by slicing, or dividing, exis ng objects.

SN

SNAP / Restricts cursor movement to specified intervals.

SO

SOLID / Creates solid-filled triangles and quadrilaterals.

SP
SPELL / Checks spelling in a drawing.

SPE

SPLINEDIT / Edits a spline or splinefit polyline.

SPL

SPLINE / Creates a smooth curve that passes through or near specified points.

SPLANE

SECTIONPLANE / Creates a sec on object that acts as a cu ng plane through 3D objects.

SPLAY

SEQUENCEPLAY / Plays named views in one category.

SPLIT

MESHSPLIT / Splits a mesh face into two faces.

SSM

SHEETSET / Opens the Sheet Set Manager

ST

STYLE / Creates, modifies, or specifies text styles.

STA

STANDARDS / Manages the associa on of standards files with drawings.

SU

SUBTRACT / Combines selected 3D solids, surfaces, or 2D regions by subtrac on.

MTEXT / Creates a mul line text object.

TA

TEXTALIGN / Aligns mul ple text objects ver cally, horizontally, or obliquely.

TB

TABLE / Creates an empty table object.

TEDIT

TEXTEDIT / Edits a dimensional constraint, dimension, or text object.

TH

THICKNESS / Sets the default 3D thickness property when crea ng 2D geometric objects.

TI

TILEMODE / Controls whether paper space can be accessed.

TO

TOOLBAR / Displays, hides, and customizes toolbars.

TOL

TOLERANCE / Creates geometric tolerances contained in a feature control frame.

TOR

TORUS / Creates a donut-shaped 3D solid.

TP

TOOLPALETTES / Opens the Tool Pale es window.

TRIM / Trims objects to meet the edges of other objects.

TS

TABLESTYLE / Creates, modifies, or specifies table styles.

UC

UCSMAN / Manages defined user coordinate systems.

UN

UNITS / Controls coordinate and angle display formats and precision.

UNHIDE / UNISOLATE

UNISOLATEOBJECTS / Displays objects previously hidden with the ISOLATEOBJECTS or HIDEOBJECTS

UNI

UNION / Unions two solid or two region objects.

HOT KEYS V-X

VIEW / Saves and restores named views, camera views, layout views, and preset views.

VGO

VIEWGO / Restores a named view.

VP

DDVPOINT / Sets the 3D viewing direc on.

VPLAY
VIEWPLAY / Plays the anima on associated to a named view.

VS

VSCURRENT / Sets the visual style in the current viewport.

VSM

VISUALSTYLES / Creates and modifies visual styles and applies a visual style to a viewport.

WBLOCK / Writes objects or a block to a new drawing file.

WE

WEDGE / Creates a 3D solid wedge.

WHEEL

NAVSWHEEL / Displays a wheel that contains a collec on of view naviga on tools.

EXPLODE / Breaks a compound object into its component objects.

XA

XATTACH / Inserts a DWG file as an external reference (xref).

XB

XBIND / Binds one or more defini ons of named objects in an xref to the current drawing.

XC

XCLIP / Crops the display of a selected external reference or block reference to a specified boundary.

XL
XLINE / Creates a line of infinite length.

XR

XREF / Starts the EXTERNALREFERENCES command.

HOT KEYS Y-Z

ZEBRA

ANALYSISZEBRA / Projects stripes onto a 3D model to analyze surface con nuity.

ZIP

ETRANSMIT / Creates a Self-Extrac ng or Zipped Transmi al Package.