Shortcut Keys

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AutoCAD comes with several "shortcut" commands already defined in the "acad.pgp" file. (Click here to see the standard AutoCAD shortcut commands) Each of these shortcuts will be used in your drawings until you define a replacement shortcut. Any shortcut definition that is created using the SHORTCUTS command will take precedence over one defined in the "acad.pgp" file. So if for example you define "B" to be "BREAK" in the SHORTCUTS command it will no longer be "BLOCK" as defined in the "acad.pgp" file. There is no need to get rid of the "B = BLOCK" definition in the PGP file, the commands defined in the SHORTCUTS command are loaded after the PGP file so they will always override what is defined there.

APS-2008 also has some standard shortcut commands that are already defined in the SHORTCUTS command. (Click here to see the standard APS-2008 shortcut commands)

AutoCAD standard shortcuts that are defined in the "acad.pgp" file do not show up in the list that appears in the SHORTCUTS command. To allow you to see more of a complete list in the SHORTCUTS command, many of the more commonly used standard AutoCAD shortcuts have been added to the standard list used by the SHORTCUTS command.

Below is the default shortcut list saved with the SHORTCUTS command. This list includes the standard APS-2008 shortcuts, the more commonly used AutoCAD shortcuts, and a few AutoCAD shortcuts that now use APS-2008 commands.

If you would like to print out the list of shortcuts we have created two files to help you:

Shortcut Commands.pdf   (Adobe Acrobat® format)
Shortcut Commands.doc (Microsoft® Word® version 2.x format )

Key to listing below:
Standard AutoCAD shortcut commands added to the SHORTCUTS list of commands
Standard APS-2008 shortcut commands (click the cmd name for description of cmd)
Standard AutoCAD shortcuts that use APS-2008 commands (click the cmd name for description of cmd)
Shortcut Command Shortcut Command Shortcut Command Shortcut Command
3A 3DARRAY DRC C-SDOOR LW LWEIGHT SEC SECTION
3DO 3DORBIT DRO DROTATED M MOVE SET SETVAR
3F 3DFACE DS DSETTINGS MA MATCHPROP SHA SHADE
3P 3DPOLY DST DIMSTYLE ME MEASURE SL SLICE
A ARC DT DTEXT MI MIRROR SN SNAP
AA AREA DTL DETAILER ML MLINE SO SOLID
AC ATTCOUNT DV DVIEW MO PROPERTIES SP SPELL
AE TXTEDT DW DWELEV MS MSPACE SPL SPLINE
AL ALIGN E ERASE MT MTEXT SR SURNOT
AP APPLOAD EB ELEVBLKS MV MVIEW ST STYLE
APS APS-CONFIG ED DDEDIT N NOTES STC STRETCHCP
AR ARRAY EH ELEVHATCH NC NOTESC SU SUBTRACT
AT ACTILE EL ELLIPSE NL NEWLINE T MTEXT
ATT ATTDEF EM EMODE NS NEWSCHEME T2M TXT2MTXT
B BLOCK EX EXTEND O APS-OFFSET TAL TALIGN
B20 BLK20 F FILLET0 O2 OF2LAYR TC TCLEAN
B2B BLK20BB FI FILTER OC O-CWIND TE TXTEDT
B2L BLK20BL FL FZLYR OD O-SDOOR TH THICKNESS
BBL CLOUD FR FILLRAD ODD O-DDOOR TI TILEMODE
BF C-BIFOLD G GROUP OH O-OHEAD TL LDRTXT
BH BHATCH GB GYPBD OHC C-OHEAD TLA LDRTXTA
BI BRKINT GL GLULAM OP OPTIONS TLB LDRTXTB
BL BBLLDR GR DDGRIPS OPD O-PATDOOR TLD LDRTXTD
BM BLIPM H BHATCH OR O-RWIND TLS LDRTXTS
BO BOUNDARY HE HATCHEDIT OS OSNAP TLT LDRTXTT
BP C-BIPASS HI HIDE OSL O-SLIDER TO TOOLBAR
BR BREAK HL HILITE P PAN TR TRIM
C CIRCLE HR HATCHREL PA PASTESPEC TT TXTRIM
C2 CPY2LAYR I INSERT PAL PURGEALL UC DDUCS
C2F CPY2FLR IAT IMAGEATTACH PB PLANBLKS UI UCSI
CB CPYBLK IMP IMPORT PD PKDTCH UL UNDERLINE
CC CPYCONT IO INSERTOBJ PDC C-PATDOOR UN UNITS
CCW C-CWIND IS LAYRISO PDO O-PATDOOR UNI UNION
CD C-SDOOR JD JDOOR PE PEDIT UP