Shortcut Key

Description

2016 New Commands and System Variables

ALT+F11
ALT+F8
CTRL+F2

Displays the Visual Basic Editor (AutoCAD only)

Displays the Macros dialog box (AutoCAD only)
Displays the Text window

New commands
CLOSEALLOTHER

CTRL+0

Toggles Clean Screen

CMATTACH

CTRL+1
CTRL+2

Toggles Properties palette

Toggles DesignCenter

Description
Closes all other open drawings, except the
current active drawing.
Inserts references to coordination models
such as NWD and NWC Navisworks files.

COORDINATIONMODELATTACH
CTRL+3

Toggles the Tool Palettes window

DIGITALSIGN

CTRL+4

Toggles Sheet Set Manager

GOTOSTART

CTRL+6

Toggles dbConnect Manager (AutoCAD only)

PCEXTRACTCENTERLINE

CTRL+7

Toggles Markup Set Manager

PCEXTRACTCORNER

CTRL+8

Toggles the QuickCalc palette

PCEXTRACTEDGE

CTRL+9

Toggles the Command Line window

PCEXTRACTSECTION

CTRL+A

POINTCLOUDCROPSTATE

CTRL+SHIFT+A

Selects all the objects in drawing that are not locked or

frozen
Toggles Groups

CTRL+B

Toggles Snap

RENDEREXPOSURECLOSE

CTRL+C

Copies objects to the Windows Clipboard

RENDERWINDOW

CTRL+SHIFT+C

RENDERWINDOWCLOSE

CTRL+D

Copies objects to the Windows Clipboard with Base

Point
Toggles Dynamic UCS (AutoCAD only)

SCRIPTCALL

Executes a sequence of commands the same

as the SCRIPT command, with the additional
capability of also executing nested scripts.

CTRL+E

Cycles through isometric planes

SECTIONSPINNERS

Sets the default increment value for the

Section Offset and Slice Thickness controls in
the Section Plane Contextual Ribbon tab.

CTRL+F

Toggles running object snaps

SYSVARMONITOR

CTRL+G
CTRL+H

Toggles Grid
Toggles PICKSTYLE

New system variables

CMFADECOLOR

CTRL+HOME

Moves focus to the Start tab

CMFADEOPACITY

CTRL+SHIFT+H

Toggles the display of palettes with HIDEPALETTES and

SHOWPALETTES

CMOSNAP

Displays the System Variable Monitor dialog

box.
Description
Controls the amount of black blended on all
attached coordination models.
Controls the amount of dimming through
transparency for all attached coordination
models.
Determines whether object snapping is active
for geometry in coordination models that are
attached to the drawing.

RENDERENVIRONMENTCLOSE

Provides a separate command to add a digital

signature to a drawing. Removes the Digital
Signature tab from the SECURITYOPTIONS
command.
Switches from the current drawing to the Start
tab. The Start tab is a successor to the New
tab and has a different behavior.
Draws a centerline for a cylindrical segment of
a point cloud.
Marks the point of the intersection between
three detected planes in a point cloud.
Infers the edge between two planes and
draws a line to mark the edge.
Generates 2D geometry from a point cloud
that contains section objects.
Controls saving, restoring, and deleting point
cloud crop states.
Closes the Render Environment & Exposure
palette.
Closes the Render Environment & Exposure
palette.
Displays the Render window. Replaces the
RENDERWIN command.
Closes the Render window.

CTRL+I

Toggles the Coordinates display (AutoCAD only)

DIMLAYER

Specifies a default layer for new dimensions.

CTRL+SHIFT+I

Toggles Infer Constraints (AutoCAD only)

DIMPICKBOX

CTRL+J

Repeats last command

DIMTXTRULER

CTRL+K

Inserts a hyperlink

EPDFSHX

Sets the object selection target height, in

pixels within the DIM command.
Controls the display of ruler when editing a
dimension text.
Controls whether text objects using SHX fonts
are stored in PDF files as comments when you
export a drawing as a PDF file. This system
variable was introduced in Service Pack 1. In
the future, the name will change to PDFSHX.

CTRL+L

Toggles Ortho mode

EXPVALUE

CTRL+SHIFT+L

Selects the previously selected objects

EXPWHITEBALANCE

CTRL+M

Repeats last command

GALLERYVIEW

CTRL+N

Creates a new drawing

IBLENVIRONMENT

CTRL+O

Opens an existing drawing

LEGACYCODESEARCH

CTRL+P

Plots the current drawing

LINEFADING

Controls whether line displays are faded when

hardware acceleration is on and you have
exceeded the line density limits.

CTRL+SHIFT+P

Toggles the Quick Properties interface

LINEFADINGLEVEL

When hardware acceleration is on, controls

the intensity of the line fading effect.

CTRL+Q

Quits the application

POINTCLOUD2DVSDISPLAY

CTRL+R

Cycles through the viewports on the current layout

POINTCLOUDEDGEDISPLAY

CTRL+S

Saves current drawing

RENDERENVSTATE

Turns off or on the bounding box and text

message when viewing a point cloud in the 2D
Wireframe visual style.
Specifies the type of edge preview displayed
in a point cloud.
Indicates whether the Render Environment &
Exposure palette is open or closed.

CTRL+SHIFT+S

Displays up the Save As dialog box

RENDERLEVEL

CTRL+T

Toggles Tablet mode

RENDERLIGHTCALC

CTRL+V

Pastes data from the Windows Clipboard

RENDERTARGET

CTRL+SHIFT+V

Pastes data from the Windows Clipboard as a Block

RENDERTIME

CTRL+W

Toggles selection cycling

REVCLOUDCREATEMODE

CTRL+X

REVCLOUDGRIPS

CTRL+Y

Cuts objects from the current drawing to the Windows

Clipboard
Cancels the preceding Undo action

CTRL+Z

Reverses the last action

SECTIONTHICKNESSINC

CTRL+[

Cancels current command

SELECTIONEFFECTCOLOR

CTRL+\

Cancels current command

STARTINFOLDER

SECTIONOFFSETINC

CTRL+PAGE UP Moves to the previous layout

STARTMODE

CTRL+PAGE
DOWN
CTRL+TAB

Moves to the next layout tab

SYSMON

Moves to the next file tab

WORKINGFOLDER

F1

Displays Help

XREFOVERRIDE

Specifies the exposure value to apply during

rendering.
Specifies the Kelvin color temperature (white
balance) value to apply during rendering.
Controls the type of preview in the ribbon
drop-down galleries.
Enables image-based lighting and specifies the
current image map.
Controls whether searching for executable
files includes the current and drawing folders.

Specifies the number of iterations, or levels,

the render engine performs to create the
rendered image.
Controls the rendering accuracy of lights and
materials.
Controls the duration to use for rendering.
Specifies the number of minutes that the
render engine uses to iteratively refine a
rendered image.
Specifies the default input for creating revision
clouds.
Controls the number of grips displayed on a
revision cloud.
Sets the default increment value for the
section object slice thickness control.
Sets the default increment value for section
object offset control.
Sets the color of the glowing highlighting
effect on object selection.
Stores the drive and folder path from where
the product was started.
Controls whether the Start tab is displayed.
Specifies whether changes to system variables
values are monitored.
Stores the drive and folder path of the
operating system's working folder or current
directory for the process, which can be of
interest to developers.
Controls the display of object properties on
referenced layers.

F2

Expands the Command Line history when the Command

Line window is floating, or displays the Text window
when the Command Line window is docked

F3

Toggles OSNAP

F4
F5
F6

Toggles 3DOSNAP (AutoCAD only) or Toggles TABMODE

(AutoCAD LT only)
Toggles ISOPLANE
Toggles UCSDETECT (AutoCAD only)

New commands
GEOMAPIMAGE

F7

Toggles GRIDMODE

GEOMAPIMAGEUPDATE

F8

Toggles ORTHOMODE

ISODRAFT

F9

Toggles SNAPMODE

NEWTAB

F10

Toggles Polar Tracking

ONLINEAUTOCAD360

F11

Toggles Object Snap Tracking

PMTOGGLE

F12

Toggles Dynamic Input

POINTCLOUDCOLORMAP

Displays the Point Cloud Color Map dialog box,

used to define settings for Intensity, Elevation,
and Classification point cloud stylizations.

Shift+F1

Subobject selection is not filtered (AutoCAD only)

POINTCLOUDCROP

Crops a selected point cloud to a specified

polygonal, rectangular, or circular boundary.

Shift+F2

Subobject selection is limited to vertices (AutoCAD only)

POINTCLOUDMANAGER

Shift+F3

Subobject selection is limited to edges (AutoCAD only)

POINTCLOUDMANAGERCLOSE

Displays the Point Cloud Manager palette,

used to control display of point cloud projects,
regions, and scans.
Closes the Point Cloud Manager.

Shift+F4

Subobject selection is limited to faces (AutoCAD only)

POINTCLOUDSTYLIZE

Controls the coloration of point clouds.

Shift+F5

Subobject selection is limited to the solid history of an

object (AutoCAD only)

POINTCLOUDUNCROP

Permanently removes all cropped areas from

selected point clouds.
Specifies the display style and size of point
objects.
Aligns multiple text objects vertically,
horizontally, or obliquely.
Launches Autodesk ReCap from within
AutoCAD.
Description
Sets the color theme of the ribbon, palettes,
and several other interface elements to dark
or light.
Controls whether a preview of the possible
outcome of the command is displayed.

2015 New Commands and System Variables

PTYPE

2014 New Commands and System Variables

TEXTALIGN
RECAP

New commands
Description
DESIGNFEEDCL Closes the Design Feed palette.
OSE

New system variables

COLORTHEME

DESIGNFEEDOP Opens the Design Feed palette.

EN

COMMANDPREVIEW

FILETAB

Displays the File tabs at the top of the drawing area.

COMPLEXLTPREVIEW

FILETABCLOSE

Hides the File tabs at the top of the drawing area.

CURSORBADGE

GEOLOCATEME Displays or hides an indicator that shows your current

position.
GEOMAP
Displays a map from an online maps service, in the
current viewport.
GEOMARKLATL Places a position marker at a location defined by a
ONG
latitude and longitude.
GEOMARKME Places a position marker in model space at the spot
corresponding to your current position.
GEOMARKPOIN Places a position marker at a specified point in model
T
space.

HIGHLIGHTSMOOTHING
HPLINETYPE
LAYOUTTAB
MTEXTAUTOSTACK
MTEXTDETECTSPACE

Description
Captures a portion of the online map to an
object known as a map image, and embeds it
in the drawing area.
Reloads map images from the online maps
service and optionally resets their resolution
for optimal on-screen viewing.
Turns isometric drafting on or off along with
all related settings, and specifies the current
2D isometric drafting plane.
Displays a New Tab which allows direct access
to files, learning resources, Autodesk A360
and more.
Launches AutoCAD 360 in your default
browser.
Controls whether the Performance Recorder is
turned on or off. The Performance Feedback
tool can be used to record performance issues
for analysis by Autodesk.

Controls whether a preview of the complex

linetype is displayed during interactive
operations.
Determines whether the cursor badge are
displayed in the drawing area.
Controls the anti-aliasing effect on object
highlighting.
Controls how non-continuous linetypes are
displayed in hatch patterns.
Controls whether Model and Layout tabs are
displayed or not.
Controls autostacking for the MTEXT
command.
Controls whether the keyboard spacebar is
used to create list items in the MTEXT
command.

GEOMARKPOSIT Places a position marker at a location you specify.

ION

NEWTABMODE

GEOREMOVE

Removes all geographic location information from the

drawing file.
GEOREORIENTM Modifies the orientation and position of the geographic
ARKER
marker without changing its latitude and longitude
properties.
INPUTSEARCHO Controls settings for working with AutoComplete and
PTIONS
AutoCorrect suggestions on the command line.

ORBITAUTOTARGET

PCMSTATE

Indicates whether the Point Cloud Manager is

open or closed.

ONLINEOPENFO Opens your local Autodesk A360 folder in Windows

LDER
Explorer.
WEBLOAD
Loads a JavaScript file from a URL, and then executes the
JavaScript code contained in the file.

POINTCLOUDLIGHTING

Controls the way lighting effects are displayed

for a point cloud.
Determines the light source for point clouds
when lighting is turned on.

New system
variables
CGEOCS

Description

POINTCLOUDLOD

Stores the name of the GIS coordinate system assigned

to the drawing file.

POINTCLOUDPOINTMAXLEGACY

CLAYOUT

Sets the current layout.

POINTCLOUDPOINTSIZE

OSNAPOVERRIDE

POINTCLOUDLIGHTSOURCE

DESIGNFEEDSTA Indicates whether the Design Feed palette is open or

TE
closed.

POINTCLOUDSHADING

DIMCONTINUE
MODE

POINTCLOUDVISRETAIN

Determines whether the style of a continued dimension

is based on the dimension that is being continued or on
the current dimension style.

Specifies whether clicking the plus sign (+) on

the file tab bar displays the New Tab or opens
a new drawing.
Controls how the target point is acquired for
the 3DORBIT command.
Determines whether the object snap settings
in the OSNAP dialog are enforced.

Sets the level of density of point display for

point clouds.
Applies only to legacy (pre-2015) point clouds.
Sets the maximum number of points that can
be displayed for all legacy point clouds
attached to the drawing.
Controls the size of the points for new point
cloud objects.
Specifies whether the brightness of the points
in the point cloud are diffuse or specular.
Controls whether a legacy drawing (created in
AutoCAD 2014) retains the on or off status of
individual scans (RCS files) and regions
referenced by an attached point cloud project
(RCP file).
Specifies the visual effect used for
preselection of objects.
Specifies the visual effect used when objects
are selected.
Specifies whether the layer list is ordered
using a natural sort order or ASCII values.

FILETABPREVIE Controls the type of preview, list view or thumbnail

W
view, when you hover over a file tab.
FILETABSTATE Indicates the display status of the file tabs at the top of
the drawing area.
FILETABTHUMB Specifies whether the corresponding model or layout
HOVER
loads in the drawing window when you hover over a file
tab thumbnail.
GEOMARKPOSIT Specifies the scale factor to use for point objects and
IONSIZE
multiline text objects when creating position markers.

PRESELECTIONEFFECT

STATUSBARSTATE

Indicates whether the status bar is visible or

not.

HPPICKMODE

Sets whether the default method for identifying what to

hatch is to select a point or to select an object.

TEXTALIGNMODE

Stores the alignment option for aligned text.

INPUTSEARCHD
ELAY
POINTCLOUDCA
CHESIZE

Sets the number of milliseconds to delay before the

command line suggestion list is displayed.
Specifies amount of memory the reserved to display for
point clouds.

TEXTALIGNSPACING

Stores the spacing option for aligned text.

TEXTALLCAPS

Controls automatic correction for MTEXT and

TEXT/DTEXT when CAPS LOCK is active.

TEXTAUTOCORRECTCAPS

Controls whether or not Caps Lock is

automatically turned off for Multiline text and
Text.

POINTCLOUDVIS Controls whether the drawing retains the on or off

RETAIN
status of point cloud scan files that are referenced by an
attached RCP file.
SAFEMODE
Indicates whether executable code can be loaded and
executed in the current AutoCAD session.
SECURELOAD
Controls whether AutoCAD loads executable files based
on their location.
TOUCHMODE
For those using a touch-enabled screen or interface,
controls the display of the Touch panel on the ribbon.
TRUSTEDDOMAI Controls the domain names or URLs from which
NS
AutoCAD can run JavaScript code.
TRUSTEDPATHS Controls the folders from where AutoCAD can load and
execute files that contain executable code.
TEXTJUSTIFY

Displays the default justification used by the TEXT

command to create single-line text.

2013 New Commands and System Variables

New commands
Description
ARRAYCLASSIC Displays the legacy Array dialog box.

SELECTIONEFFECT
SORTORDER

ONLINECOLNO
W
ONLINEDOCS
ONLINEOPTION
ONLINESHARE
ONLINESYNC
ONLINESYNCSET
TINGS
OPENFROMCLO
UD
POINTCLOUDCLI
P
POINTCLOUDIN
TENSITYEDIT
SAVETOCLOUD

Starts an online session with AutoCAD WS, in which

people that you invite can simultaneously view and edit
your current drawing.
Opens your Autodesk A360 documents list and folders in
a browser.
Opens the Online tab of the Options dialog box.
Designates who can access the current document from
Autodesk A360.
Starts or stops syncing your custom settings with
Autodesk A360.
Displays the Choose Which Settings Are Synced dialog
box where you can specify selected settings to be
synced.
Opens an existing drawing file from your local Autodesk
A360 sync folder.
Crops the display of a selected point cloud to specified
boundaries.
Opens the Point Cloud Intensity Color Mapping dialog
box that specifies intensity color mapping for eligible
point clouds.
Saves an existing drawing file to your local Autodesk
A360 sync folder under a new file name.

SURFEXTRACTC Extracts isolines curves from a surface.

URVE
VIEWCOMPONE Selects drawing view components for editing.
VIEWDETAIL
Supports the creation of detail views by selecting an
existing drawing view
VIEWSECTION Supports the creation of section views by selecting a
drawing view to cut.
VIEWDETAILSTY Supports the creation or modification of detail view
LE
styles.
VIEWSECTIONST Supports the creation and editing of section view styles.
YLE
VIEWSKETCH
Activates model space for a view and enters a view
sketching state to edit and constrain a section line or
detail boundary
VIEWSKETCHCL Exits a view sketching state and makes paper space
OSE
current.
New system
Description
variables
ANNOMONITOR Turns the annotation monitor on and off.
ARRAYASSOCIAT Sets the default behavior of new arrays to be associative
IVITY
or non-associative.
CACHEMAXFILE Sets the maximum number of graphics cache files saved
S
in the local configured temporary folder for the product.
CACHEMAXTOT Sets the maximum total size of all graphics cache files
ALSIZE
saved in the local configured temporary folder for the
product.
CLIPROMPTLINE Sets the number of lines displayed in the temporary
S
prompt history when an undocked command window is
set to display just the prompt line.
CLIPROMPTUPD Controls whether the command line displays the
ATE
messages and prompts generated while an AutoLISP or
script file is being executed.
ONLINEDOCMO Indicates whether a copies of your drawings and linked
DE
files are uploaded automatically to Autodesk A360.
ONLINESYNCTI
ME

Controls the time interval for synchronizing current

customization settings with a local cache, which is then
stored in Autodesk A360.
POINTCLOUDCLI Determines whether point cloud clipping boundaries are
PFRAME
visible or plotted in the current drawing.
PLINEREVERSE
WIDTHS
POINTCLOUDBO
UNDARY
POINTCLOUDCLI
PFRAME
POINTCLOUDPO
INTMAX

Controls the appearance of a polyline when it is

reversed.
Turns the display of a point cloud bounding box on and
off.
Controls whether a point cloud clipping boundary is
visible on the screen and when printed.
Sets the maximum number of point cloud points that
can exist in a drawing.

PROPERTYPREVI Controls whether you can preview the changes to

EW
currently selected objects when you roll over drop-down
lists and galleries that control properties.
PROPPREVTIME Sets the maximum number of seconds for a property
OUT
preview to display before the preview is automatically
cancelled.
SELECTIONPREV Limits the number of objects that can display preview
IEWLIMIT
highlighting during a window or crossing selection.
SNAPGRIDLEGA Specifies whether the grid snap is active only when
CY
specifying a point, or also during object selection.
THUMBSAVE

Controls whether BMP preview images are saved with

the drawing.
VIEWSKETCHM Turns the view sketching state on or off.
VIEWUPDATEAU Specifies whether Model Documentation views are
TO
updated automatically when changes are pending.
WIPEOUTFRAM Controls the display of frames for wipeout objects.
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