Keyboard Shortcut Keys

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Ctrl + 0

Clears screen to show only the drawing area and hides palettes and tabs. Press it again to reset default AutoCAD interface

Ctrl + 1

Select and object and press Ctrl + 1 to open the properties palette which lists properties of the object. You can use this palette to modify most of the properties of the object too. You can also use PR command to open the property palette

Ctrl +C

Select objects from the drawing area and press Ctrl + C to copy to objects to the clipboard

Ctrl + Y

This keyboard shortcut can be used to redo the last undo action which you have performed

Ctrl + Z

This keyboard shortcut can be used to undo last action in your drawing. You can press this shortcut key multiple times to undo many actions

Ctrl + Shift + V

To paste the copied objects as a block you can use this keyboard shortcut, the block thus created will have a random set of characters as is name. You can use this keyboard shortcut to make blocks quickly without going through the create block window

Ctrl + V

To paste the copied objects of the clipboard in the drawing keeping their original properties, you can use this keyboard shortcut

Ctrl +2

You can use it to open design center palette which contains many AutoCAD blocks the can be used directly in your drawing

Ctrl + Tab

You can use this keyboard shortcut to cycle through all open drawing tabs I AutoCAD

Ctrl + S

You can use this keyboard shortcut to save a drawing file

Ctrl + Shift + S

You can use this keyboard shortcut to save the drawing as a new file or in short this is shortcut for "save as" command

Ctrl + 9

You can use this keyboard shortcut to toggle the visibility of command line. If for some reason your command line is hidden from the drawing area, then use this keyboard shortcut to bring it back

Ctrl + N

You can use this shortcut to open a new drawing a tab in AutoCAD


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