One of the most important status bar toggles. You can use this keyboard shortcut to cycle through all open drawing tabs in AutoCAD. This keyboard shortcut can be used to redo the last undo action which you have performed. You can press this shortcut key multiple times to undo many actions. This keyboard shortcut can be used to undo the last action in your drawing. You can use this keyboard shortcut to make blocks quickly without going through the create block window. To paste the copied objects as a block you can use this keyboard shortcut, the block thus created will have a random set of characters as is name. To paste the copied objects of the clipboard into the drawing keeping their original properties, you can use this keyboard shortcut. Select objects from the drawing area and press Ctrl + C to copy to objects to the clipboard. If for some reason your command line is hidden from the drawing area, then use this keyboard shortcut to bring it back. You can use this keyboard shortcut to toggle the visibility of the command line. You can use this to open a quick calculator inside the AutoCAD user interface to perform simple and complex calculations using the scientific calculator and also for unit conversion calculations. You can use it to open the design center palette which contains many AutoCAD blocks that can be used directly in your drawing.

You can also use the PR command to open the property palette. You can use this palette to modify most of the properties of the object too. Select an object and press Ctrl + 1 to open the properties palette which lists the properties of the object.

Press it again to reset the default AutoCAD interface.

Ctrl + 0Ĭlears screen to show only the drawing area and hides palettes and tabs.

You can use this keyboard shortcut to save the drawing as a new file, in short, this is the hotkey for “save as” command. You can use this keyboard shortcut to save a drawing file. You can use this shortcut to open a new drawing tab in AutoCAD. In this list, I have included some of the most frequently used and useful keyboard shortcuts Ctrl + N Keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys are the shortest and quickest way of activating some of the common AutoCAD operations or commands.

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