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This document provides shortcuts and settings for various AutoCAD commands. It includes popular aliases for limits, aperture size, UCS settings, redo, point styles, dimension styles, mirroring text, section lines, image attachment, array, deleting duplicates, the navigation bar, multiline and single line text formatting, dimensioning, and shortcuts for linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter dimensions. Settings are provided for dimension tolerances, decimal places, text size factor, and positioning dimensions.

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2-Popular Alias'

This document provides shortcuts and settings for various AutoCAD commands. It includes popular aliases for limits, aperture size, UCS settings, redo, point styles, dimension styles, mirroring text, section lines, image attachment, array, deleting duplicates, the navigation bar, multiline and single line text formatting, dimensioning, and shortcuts for linear, aligned, angular, radius, diameter dimensions. Settings are provided for dimension tolerances, decimal places, text size factor, and positioning dimensions.

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Popular Alias’

 LIMITS
o Best to start off with 12, 9 inch
o Metric size is 279.4, 215.9 mm
 APBOX
o 1=visible, 0=off
 APERTURE size=10-15
 PICKBOX size=5
 DDE = Direct Dimension Entry is default in line command
 UCSICON
o N resets UCS icon to lower left corner
o UC opens dialog box to change settings
 OOPS regenerates erased objects
 REDO also returns past modifications
 PDMODE point style, or node settings in command line,
o usually use 2 or 3
 DDPTYPE opens dialogue box for point settings so the point types can be chosen by looks
o If a minus sign (–) is typed before commands that have a dialogue box, it will not open,
changes are made through the command line
 PolyEdit will create a polyline out of separate lines (joins them)
o PE
o Select polyline or [Multiple]:(select one of the lines in new polyline)
o Object selected is not a polyline
o Do you want to turn it into one? <Y>
o Enter an option [Close/Join/Width/Edit vertex/Fit/Spline/Decurve/Ltype
gen/Reverse/Undo]: J
o Select objects: Specify opposite corner: 5 found
o Select objects: enter
o 4 segments added to polyline
o Enter an option [Open/Join/Width/Edit vertex/Fit/Spline/Decurve/Ltype
gen/Reverse/Undo]: *Cancel*
o Seeing “Open” in final line as the first option means the command was successful.
 ST = Text style manager
 SDI=Single Drawing Interface
o 0 = allows to open more than one drawing at a time
o 1 =only able to open one drawing at a time (must save before opening another)
 DIMSTYLE or D = Dimension style manager
 MIRRTEXT
o =0 will not mirror text (able to read mirrored text)
o =1 will mirror text (makes text unreadable)

 Creating Sectional Lines, Use PL to make the line with a Width of .03 or so (to suit)
o PL then select point to start
o H for half width
o Start point = 0.0
o End point width = .10 or so
Popular Alias’ 2

 IMAGEATTACH
o Import a .jpg so a tracing can be made over the original drawing. When finished just
detach original .jpg and you’re left with a drawing of it.
 ARRAYCLASSIC gives old school array dialogue box in 2013
o Download and install SP1 for AutoCAD 2012

 OVERKILL Deletes duplicates

 NAVBARDISPLAY turns navigation bar on the right on and off (suggest off)
o “0” turns off
o “1” turns on

 AUTOCOMPLETE “guesses” your inputs, this can be annoying (suggest off)


 VIEW opens dialog box for new view in paperspace layouts
 MT = multiline text
 DT = single line of text

 %%U will underscore text


 %%O will overscore text
 %%C will insert the diametrical symbol (Ø)
 %%D will insert the degree symbol (˚)
 %%P will insert the plus minus symbol (±)

DIMENSIONING
 DIM, STATUS
o will show present conditions of dimensioning settings
 DIMLIM = tolerance settings (on or off)
o 3 different ways to tolerance dimensions
 Symmetrical (+/– 0.001)
 Limits Shows high and low allowable sizes (1.001/0.999)
 Deviation Shows separate allowable tolerances (+0.001/–0.001)
 DIMTDEC
o Shows number of decimal places in tolerances
 3 is common
 4 is more precise
 DIMTFAC (0.8)
o When DIMTEXT =1
 Means dimensioning size factor is 80% of dimtext
 0.8 Suggested
 DIMTP = Plus amount of tolerance
 DIMTM = Minus amount of tolerance
 DIMUPT
o Allows user to position dimension anywhere
o When turned off dimension is in the middle of extension lines
o Dimensioning Shortcuts
Popular Alias’ 3

 DLI = Linear
 DAL = Aligned
 DAN = Angular
 DRA = Radius
 DDI = Diameter
 DCE = Creates centre point or mark

 DIM
o HOR=horizontal dimensioning
o VER=vertical dimensioning
o Dimensioning this way allows text to be added
 Adding text before the < > symbol adds the text before the dimension
 Adding after the < > adds the text after the dimension

 DIMOR = Ordinate (baseline) dimensioning

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