If you are checking out this blog, then most probably you are an Architect, a Designer, an Engineer, or a construction individual.

We all need short-cuts at some point, we’re all guilty about it. I definitely am… 

But, if it saves time and boosts our productivity, then Why not let the design effortlessly flow. You forget the long hours of making and editing drawings and imagine design getting created with ease!!

Today, let's just talk about the keyboard shortcuts, which will definitely sharpen up your keyboard skills and save plenty of time!  

The essential requirements here are,

Application! Practice! Habit!

Auto - cad shortcuts and commands that will make your life easy !

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   1. Ctrl+N (New drawing tab)

   2. Ctrl+1 (Open property palette)

   3. Ctrl+9 (Visibility of command line)

   4. OOPS (Restore last deleted object)

   5. DIVIDE (Divide 2D geometry in equal parts)

   6. FILLMORE

      (lets you turn off or on the visibility of filled areas and makes the performance of the software faster. Change the value of FILLMORE with 0 or 1 to change visibility and regenerate the drawing using RE to see the effect.)

   7. MLINE

      (creates multiple parallel lines with specific widths. This can help you draw walls or any geometry that might require parallel lines.)

   8. TEXTEXP

      (explodes your text into polyline objects giving you extra control for your texts.)

   9. OVERKILL

      (get rid of duplicate and overlapping objects in the drawing. You can either select a portion or the entire drawing and clean it up.)

   10. ISOLATEOBJECTS

       (Isolate a selected group of objects for easier editing in complicated or busy drawings. you can end your object isolation and bring back any hidden objects simply by using the UNISOLATEOBJECTS command or End Object Isolation right-click option.)

   11. ARRAY

       (Repeatable patterns, also known as arrays, can be created using the ARRAY command. Associative arrays make it easy to create rectangular and polar patterns along with distributing items along a 2D path.)

   12. QDIM

       (Cut more time out of your workflow by using the QDIM command to apply dimensions to an entire series of objects at once.)

With time, the short- cuts will come naturally and you won’t even realize you used them…

It will definitely help you improve the quality and the quantity!

Happy practicing!

Author: Ar. Shriya Goyal and Ar. Nisha Parikh

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