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AutoCAD LT shortcuts & hotkey guide

Work faster and more efficiently by using the AutoCAD LT shortcuts below. You can find a downloadable list of shortcuts and commands in the AutoCAD LT Keyboard Shortcuts PDF.

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One-Key Shortcuts  |  Toggles and Screen Management 

Hot Keys:  A-C  |  D-F  |  G-I  |  J-L  | M-O  |  P-R  |  S-U  |  V-X  |  Y-Z

AutoCAD LT one-key shortcuts

Get work done quickly with the AutoCAD LT one-key keyboard shortcuts.

Toggles and screen management

Below, you'll find an abbreviated list of commands that can be used in AutoCAD LT

Toggle General Features

Ctrl+Shift+A

Toggle group selection


Ctrl+H

Toggle Pick Style


Ctrl+I

Toggle Coords


Ctrl+Shift+I

Toggle Infer Constraints


Ctrl+Shift+ L

Select objects


Ctrl+Shift+P

Toggle Quick Properties mode


Ctrl+W or Ctrl+Shift+W

Toggles Selection Cycling


F1

Display Help


F2

Toggle Text Screen


Toggle Drawing Modes

F4 or Ctrl+Shift+Y

Toggle 3D Osnap


F5 or Ctrl+E

Cycle isometric planes


F6 or Ctrl+D

Toggle Dynamic UCS


F7

Toggle Grid


F8 or Ctrl+L

Toggle ortho mode


F9 or Ctrl+B

Toggle Snap mode


F10 or CMD+U

Toggle Polar Tracking


F11 

Toggle Object Snap Tracking


F12

Toggle dynamic input tooltip mode


Manage Screen

Ctrl+Shift+H

Toggle pallets


Ctrl+R

Toggle between floating viewports


Ctrl+0 (zero)

Toggle Full Screen mode


Ctrl+1

Toggle Property palette


Ctrl+2

Toggle Design Center palette


Ctrl+3

Toggle Tool Sets palette


Ctrl+4

Toggle Sheet Set palette


Ctrl+7

Toggle Markup Set Manager palette


Ctrl+8

Toggle Quick Calc palette


Ctrl+9

Command Line


Manage Workflow

Ctrl+A

Select all objects


Ctrl+C

Copy selected objects


Ctrl+Shift+C

Copy selected objects to clipboard with base point

(COPYBASE)


Ctrl+X

Cut selected objects


Ctrl+Shift+X

Cut selected object with base point


Ctrl+V

Paste object


Ctrl+Shift+V

Paste data as block


Ctrl+K

Add hyperlink to selected


Ctrl+J or Ctrl+M

Repeats the previous command


Ctrl+Y

Redo last action


Ctrl+Z

Undo last action


ESC or Ctrl+[ or Ctrl+\

Cancel current command


Manage Drawings

Ctrl+N

New drawing


Ctrl+O

Open drawing


Ctrl+S

Save drawing


Ctrl+Shift+S

Saves Drawing As


Ctrl+P

Plot dialog box


Ctrl+Tab

Switch to next drawing


Ctrl+Shift+Tab

Switch to previous drawing


Ctrl+Page Up

Switch to previous tab in current drawing


Ctrl+Page Down

Switch to next tab in current drawing


Ctrl+Q

Exit AutoCAD


HOT KEYS A–C

A

A

ARC / Creates an arc.


AA

AREA / Calculates the area and perimeter of objects or of defined areas.


ADC

ADCENTER / Manages and inserts content such as blocks, xrefs, and hatch patterns.


AL

 

ALIGN / Aligns objects with other objects in 2D and 3D.


AR

ARRAY / Creates multiple copies of objects in a pattern.


AS OPEN

ASSISTANTOPEN / Open Autodesk

Assistant


ATI

ATTIPEDIT / Changes the textual content of an attribute within a block.


ATT

ATTDEF / Redefines a block and updates associated attributes.


ATE

ATTEDIT / Changes attribute information in a block.


B

B

BLOCK / Creates a block definition from selected objects. 


BC

BCLOSE / Closes the Block Editor. 


BE

BEDIT / Opens the block definition in the Block Editor. 


BH

HATCH / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pattern, solid fill, or gradient fill.


BO

BOUNDARY / Creates a region or a polyline from an enclosed area.


BR

BREAK / Breaks the selected object between two points.


BS

BSAVE / Saves the current block definition.


BVS

BVSTATE / Creates, sets, or deletes a visibility state in a dynamic block.


C

C

CIRCLE / Creates a circle.


CBAR

CONSTRAINTBAR / A toolbar-like UI element that displays the available geometric constraints on an object.


CH

PROPERTIES / Controls properties of existing objects.


CHA

CHAMFER / Bevels the edges of objects.


CL

CENTERLINE / Creates centerlines.


CLI

COMMANDLINE / Displays the Command Line window.


CM

CENTERMARK / Creates center marks.


COL

COLOR / Sets the color for new objects.


C0

COPY / Copies objects a specified distance in a specified direction.


HOT KEYS D-F

D

D

DIMSTYLE / Creates and modifies dimension styles.


DAN

DIMANGULAR / Creates an angular dimension.


DAR

DIMARC / Creates an arc length dimension.


DBA

DIMBASELINE / Creates a linear, angular, or ordinate dimension from the baseline of the previous or selected dimension.


DCE

DIMCENTER / Creates the center mark or the centerlines of circles and arcs.


DCO

DIMCONTINUE / Creates a dimension that starts from an extension line of a previously created dimension.


DDA

DIMDISASSOCIATE / Removes associativity from selected dimensions.


DDI

DIMDIAMETER / Creates a diameter dimension for a circle or an arc.


DED

DIMEDIT / Edits dimension text and extension lines.


DI

DIST / Measures the distance and angle between two points.


DIV

DIVIDE / Creates evenly spaced point objects or blocks along the length or perimeter of an object.


DJL

DIMJOGLINE / Adds or removes a jog line on a linear or aligned dimension.


DJO

DIMJOGGED / Creates jogged dimensions for circles and arcs.


DL

DATALINK / The Data Link dialog box is displayed.


DLU

DATALINKUPDATE / Updates data to or from an established external data link.


DO

DONUT / Creates a filled circle or a wide ring.


DOR

DIMORDINATE / Creates ordinate dimensions.


DOV

DIMOVERRIDE / Controls overrides of system variables used in selected dimensions.


DR

DRAWORDER / Changes the draw order of images and other objects.


DRA

DIMRADIUS / Creates a radius dimension for a circle or an arc.


DRE

DIMREASSOCIATE / Associates or re-associates selected dimensions to objects or points on objects.


DRM

DRAWINGRECOVERY / Displays a list of drawing files that can be recovered after a program or system failure.


DS

DSETTINGS / Sets grid and snap, polar and object snap tracking, object snap modes, Dynamic Input, and Quick Properties.


DT

TEXT / Creates a single-line text object.


E

E

ERASE / Removes objects from a drawing.


ED

TEXTEDIT / Edits single-line text, dimension text, attribute definitions, and feature control frames.


EL

ELLIPSE / Creates an ellipse or an elliptical arc.


EPDF

EXPORTPDF / Exports drawing to PDF.


ER

EXTERNALREFERENCES / Opens the External References palette.


EX

EXTEND / Extends objects to meet the edges of other objects.


EXIT

QUIT / Exits the program.


EXP

EXPORT / Saves the objects in a drawing to a different file format.


F

F

FILLET / Rounds and fillets the edges of objects.


HOT KEYS G-I

G

G

GROUP / Creates and manages saved sets of objects called groups.


GD

GRADIENT / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a gradient fill.


GEO

GEOGRAPHICLOCATION / Specifies the geographic location information for a drawing file.


H

H

HATCH / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pattern, solid fill, or gradient fill.

 


HE

HATCHEDIT / Modifies an existing hatch or fill.

 


HI

HIDE / Regenerates a 3D wireframe model with hidden lines suppressed.

 


I

I

INSERT / Inserts a block or drawing into the current drawing.


ID

ID / Displays the UCS coordinate values of a specified location.


IM

IMAGE / Displays the External References palette.


IMP

IMPORT / Imports files of different formats into the current drawing.


IN

INTERSECT / Creates a 3D solid,surface, or 2D region from overlapping solids, surfaces, or regions.


IO

INSERTOBJ / Inserts a linked or embedded object.


ISOLATE

ISOLATEOBJECTS / Makes specificed objects temporarily invisible, or restores objects that were previously made invisible.


HOT KEYS J-L

J

J

JOIN / Joins similar objects to form a single, unbroken object.


JOG

DIMJOGGED / Creates jogged dimensions for circles and arcs.


K

L

L

LINE / Creates straight line segments.


LA

LAYER / Manages layers and layer properties.


LAS

LAYERSTATE / Saves, restores, and manages named layer states.


LE

QLEADER / Creates a leader and leader annotation.


LEN

LENGTHEN / Changes the length of objects and the included angle of arcs.


LI

LIST / Displays property data for selected objects.


LO

LAYOUT / Creates and modifies drawing layout tabs.


LT

LINETYPE / Loads, sets, and modifies linetypes. 


LTS

LTSCALE / Changes the scale factor of linetypes for all objects in a drawing. 


LW

LWEIGHT / Sets the current lineweight, lineweight display options, and lineweight units.


HOT KEYS M-O

M

M

MOVE / Moves objects a specified distance in a specified direction.


MA

MATCHPROP / Applies the properties of a selected object to other objects.


ME

 

MEASURE / Creates point objects or blocks at measured intervals along the length or perimeter of an object.


MEA

MEASUREGEOM / Measures the distance, radius, angle, area, and volume of selected objects or sequence of points.


MI

MIRROR / Creates a mirrored copy of selected objects.


MLA

MLEADERALIGN / Aligns and spaces selected multileader objects.


MLC

MLEADERCOLLECT / Organizes selected multileaders that contain blocks into rows or columns, and displays the result with a single leader.


MLD

MLEADER / Creates a multileader object. 


MLE

MLEADEREDIT / Adds leader lines to, or removes leader lines from, a multileader object.


MLS

MLEADERSTYLE / Creates and modifies multileader styles.


MO

PROPERTIES / Controls properties of existing objects.


MS

MSPACE / Switches from paper space to a model space viewport.


MSM

MARKUP / Opens the Markup Set Manager.


MT

MTEXT / Creates a multiline text object.


MV

MVIEW / Creates and controls layout viewports.


N

N

NEW / Create a new drawing.


NVIEW

NEWVIEW / Creates a named view with no motion.


O

O

OFFSET / Creates concentric circles, parallel lines, and parallel curves.


OP

OPTIONS / Customizes the program settings.


OR

ORTHO / Constrains cursor movement


OS

OSNAP / Sets running object snap modes.


HOT KEYS P-R

P

P2D

PUSHTODOCSOPEN / Opens the push to Autodesk Docs Palette.


P

PAN / Adds a parameter with grips to a dynamic block definition.


PA

PASTESPEC / Pastes objects from the Clipboard into the current drawing and controls the format of the data.


PAR

PARAMETERS / Controls the associative parameters used in the drawing.


PARAM

BPARAMETER / Adds a parameter with grips to a dynamic block definition.


PE

PEDIT / Edits polylines and 3D polygon meshes.


PL

PLINE / Creates a 2D polyline.


PO

POINT / Creates a point object.


POFF

HIDEPALETTES / Hides currently displayed palettes (including the command line).


POL

POLYGON / Creates an equilateral closed polyline.


PON

SHOWPALETTES / Restores the display of hidden palettes.


PR

PROPERTIES / Displays Properties palette.


PRE

PREVIEW / Displays the drawing as it will be plotted.


PRINT

PLOT / Plots a drawing to a plotter, printer, or file.


PS

PSPACE / Switches from a model space viewport to paper space.


PU

PURGE / Removes unused items, such as block definitions and layers, from the drawing.


Q

QC

QUICKCALC / Opens the QuickCalc calculator.


QP

QUICKPROPERTIES / Displays open drawings and layouts in a drawing in preview images.


QSAVE

QSAVE / Saves the current drawing.


QVD

QVDRAWING / Displays open drawings and layouts in a drawing using preview images.


QVL

QVLAYOUT / Displays preview images of model space and layouts in a drawing.


R

R

REDRAW / Refreshes the display in the current viewport.


RE

REGEN / Regenerates the entire drawing from the current viewport.


REA

REGENALL / Regenerates the drawing and refreshes all viewports.


REC

RECTANG / Creates a rectangular polyline.


REG

REGION / Converts an object that encloses an area into a region object.


REN

RENAME / Changes the names assigned to items such as layers and dimension styles.


RO

ROTATE / Rotates objects around a base point.


HOT KEYS S-U

S

S

STRETCH / Stretches objects crossed by a selection window or polygon.


SC

SCALE / Enlarges or reduces selected objects, keeping the proportions of the object the same after scaling.


SCR

SCRIPT / Executes a sequence of commands from a script file.


SET

SETVAR / Lists or changes the values of system variables.


SHA

SHADEMODE / Sets the display to be wireframe or hidden-line images.


SN

SNAP / Restricts cursor movement to specified intervals.


SO

SOLID / Creates solid-filled triangles and quadrilaterals.


SP

SPELL / Checks spelling in a drawing.


SPE

SPLINEDIT / Edits a spline or splinefit polyline.


SPL

SPLINE / Creates a smooth curve that passes through or near specified points.


SSM

SHEETSET / Opens the Sheet Set Manager


ST

STYLE / Creates, modifies, or specifies text styles.


SU

SUBTRACT / Combines selected 3D solids, surfaces, or 2D regions by subtraction.


T

T

MTEXT / Creates a multiline text object.


TA

TEXTALIGN / Aligns multiple text objects vertically, horizontally, or obliquely.


TB

TABLE / Creates an empty table object.


TEDIT

TEXTEDIT / Edits a dimensional constraint, dimension, or text object.


TH

THICKNESS / Sets the default 3D thickness property when creating 2D geometric objects.


TI

TILEMODE / Controls whether paper space can be accessed.


TO

TOOLBAR / Displays, hides, and customizes toolbars.


TOL

TOLERANCE / Creates geometric tolerances contained in a feature control frame.


TP

TOOLPALETTES / Opens the Tool Palettes window.


TR

TRIM / Trims objects to meet the edges of other objects.


TS

TABLESTYLE / Creates, modifies, or specifies table styles.


U

UC

UCSMAN / Manages defined user coordinate systems.


UN

UNITS / Controls coordinate and angle display formats and precision.


UNHIDE / UNISOLATE

UNISOLATEOBJECTS / Displays objects previously hidden with the ISOLATEOBJECTS or HIDEOBJECTS command.


UNI

UNION / Unions two solid or two region objects.


HOT KEYS V-X

V

V

VIEW / Saves and restores named views, camera views, layout views, and preset views.


VP

VPOINT / The Viewpoint Presets dialog box is displayed.


VGO

VIEWGO / Restores a named view.


W

W

WBLOCK / Writes objects or a block to a new drawing file.


WHEEL

NAVSWHEEL / Displays a wheel that contains a collection of view navigation tools.


X

X

EXPLODE / Breaks a compound object into its component objects.


XA

XATTACH / Inserts a DWG file as an external reference (xref).


XB

XBIND / Binds one or more definitions of named objects in an xref to the current drawing.


XC

XCLIP / Crops the display of a selected external reference or block reference to a specified boundary.


XL

XLINE / Creates a line of infinite length.


XR

XREF / Starts the EXTERNALREFERENCES command.


HOT KEYS Y-Z

Y

Z

Z

ZOOM / Increases or decreases the magnification of the view in the current viewport.


ZIP

ETRANSMIT / Creates a SelfExtracting or Zipped Transmittal Package.