SubscribeHome at last...though I love Europe - there's no place like home (imagine me clicking my heels together). The evil bug has finally set me free and I'm ready to enjoy the nice California summertime. Last weekend I saw the extremely entertaining Marriage of Figaro opera in San Francisco (big Mozart fan) and enjoyed some beautiful San Francisco sunshine (which is very rare if you've ever been to San Francisco). Wednesday I head out to Honolulu for the next AUGI CAD Camp. There are plenty of CAD Camps scheduled throughout the next few months - be sure to check out the schedule just in case there happens to be one in your neighborhood.
A couple of cool AutoCAD Keyboard Tips:
If you are a decent typist then you can appreciate knowing your way around the keyboard as it relates to AutoCAD so here are a few tips to keep in mind.
Control+Tab to quickly cycle through any open drawings
Use the Up and Down Arrow keys to recall previously executed commands. This is great if you misspell something and would like to recall it and correct the error - also great for retrieving a command you used a couple of steps ago. PageUp and PageDown will go back through all the command information one line at a time (including the prompts).
Fellow user Doc mentioned that he was surprised how many people did not know you could use the Spacebar as an Enter (or Return). This big key is easy to hit and allows you to really go quickly when executing commands from the keyboard. Of course the spacebar acts as a standard spacebar should when inputting text information.
Enter (or Spacebar) at the command prompt always repeats the last command.
When keying in commands the End key jumps you to the end of any input information and the Home key jumps you back to the begining of the line.
If one or more objects are selected, the Delete key will erase them (this does not work if no objects are highlighted).
I won't go through all the Function keys but each of those has a command assigned to it as well (these are also customizable in the CUI command)
And after keying in one or more characters at the command line you can use the Tab key to cycle through all of the commands that start with those characters. For example, key in the letter S followed by the tab key and each of the commands and system variables that start with an S will be cycled through. Great for system variable names you just can't remember how to spell!
That's a few for starters...have a great Monday!