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AutoCAD LT shortcuts & hotkey guide
Work faster and more efficiently by using the AutoCAD Keyboard Shortcuts below.
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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-Z
One-key shortcuts
Below, you'll find an abbreviated list of common commands that can be used on AutoCAD LT.
| Q | QSAVE / Saves the current drawing. |
| A | ARC / Creates an arc. |
| Z | ZOOM / Increases or decreases the magnification of the view in the current viewport. |
| W | WBLOCK / Writes objects or a block to a new drawing file. |
| S | STRETCH / Stretches objects crossed by a selection window or polygon. |
| X | EXPLODE / Breaks a compound object into its component objects. |
| E | ERASE / Removes objects from a drawing. |
| D | DIMSTYLE / Creates and modifies dimension styles. |
| C | CIRCLE / Creates a circle. |
| R | REDRAW / Refreshes the display in the current viewport. |
| F | FILLET / Rounds and fillets the edges of objects. |
| V | VIEW / Saves and restores named views, camera views, layout views, and preset views. |
| T | MTEXT / Creates a multiline text object. |
| G | GROUP / Creates and manages saved sets of objects called groups. |
| B | BLOCK / Creates a block definition from selected objects. |
| H | HATCH / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pattern, solid fill, or gradient fill. |
| J | JOIN / Joins similar objects to form a single, unbroken object. |
| M | MOVE / Moves objects a specified distance in a specified direction. |
| N | NEW / Create a new drawing. |
| I | INSERT / Inserts a block or drawing into the current drawing. |
| O | OFFSET / Creates concentric circles, parallel lines, and parallel curves. |
| L | LINE / Creates straight line segments. |
| P | PAN / Adds a parameter with grips to a dynamic block definition. |
Toggles and screen management
Below, you'll find an abbreviated list of commands that can be used in AutoCAD LT.
Toggle General Features
| Ctrl+E | Cycle isometric planes |
| Ctrl+F | Toggle running object snaps |
| Ctrl+G | Toggle Grid |
| Ctrl+H | Toggle Pick Style |
| Ctrl+Shift+H | Toggle display palettes |
Toggle Drawing Modes
| F1 | Display Help |
| F2 | Toggle text screen |
| F3 | Toggle object snap mode |
| F5 | Toggle Isoplane |
| F7 | Toggle grid mode |
| F8 | Toggle ortho mode |
| F9 | Toggle snap mode |
| F10 | Toggle polar mode |
| F11 | Toggle object snap tracking |
| F12 | Toggle dynamic input mode |
Manage Screen
| Ctrl+0 (zero) | Clean Screen |
| Ctrl+1 | Property Palette |
| Ctrl+2 | Design Center Palette |
| Ctrl+3 | Tool Palette |
| Ctrl+4 | Sheet Set Palette |
| Ctrl+7 | Markup Set Manager Palette |
| Ctrl+8 | Quick Calc |
| Ctrl+9 | Command Line |
Manage Workflow
| Ctrl+C | Copy object |
| Ctrl+X | Cut object |
| Ctrl+V | Paste object |
| Ctrl+Shift+C | Copy to clipboard with base point |
| Ctrl+Shift+V | Paste data as block |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo last action |
| Ctrl+Y | Redo last action |
| Ctrl+[ (or Ctrl+\) | Cancel current command |
| Esc | Cancel current command |
Hot keys
The following commands change based on specific editor pane you are actively using.
A-C
| A | ARC / Creates an arc. |
| AA | AREA / Calculates the area and perimeter of objects or defined areas. |
| ADC | ADCENTER / Manages and inserts content such as blocks, xrefs, and hatch patterns. |
| AL | ALIGN / Aligns objects with other objects in 2D. |
| AR | ARRAY / Creates multiple copies of objects in a pattern. |
| ATE | ATTEDIT / Changes attribute information in a block. |
| ATI | ATTIPEDIT / Changes the textual content of an attribute within a block. |
| ATT | ATTDEF / Redefines a block and updates associated attributes. |
| 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 | 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. |
| CLI | COMMANDLINE / Displays the Command Line window. |
| CO | COPY / Copies objects a specified distance in a specified direction. |
| COL | COLOR / Sets the color for new objects. |
| CT | CTABLESTYLE / Sets the name of the current table style. |
D-F
| 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. |
| DX | SAVEAS / Saves the current drawing. |
| E | ERASE / Removes objects from a drawing. |
| 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 | FILLET / Rounds and fillets the edges of objects. |
G-I
| 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 | 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 | 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 2D region object from the overlapping area of two or more existing regions. |
| IO | INSERTOBJ / Inserts a linked or embedded object. |
J-L
| J | JOIN / Joins similar objects to form a single, unbroken object. |
| JOG | DIMJOGGED / Creates jogged dimensions for circles and arcs. |
| 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. |
M-O
| 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. |
| NORTH | GEOGRAPHICLOCATION / Specifies the geographic location information for a drawing file. |
| O | OFFSET / Creates concentric circles, parallel lines, and parallel curves. |
| OP | OPTIONS / Customizes the program settings. |
| OS | OSNAP / Sets running object snap modes. |
P-R
| 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. |
| PC | PCINWIZARD /Displays a wizard to import PCP and PC2 configuration file plot settings into the Model or current layout. |
| PE | PEDIT / Edits polylines, objects to be joined to polylines and related objects. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| QVDC | QVDRAWINGCLOSE / Closes preview images of open drawings and layouts in a drawing. |
| QVL | QVLAYOUT / Displays preview images of model space and layouts in a drawing. |
| QVLC | QVLAYOUTCLOSE / Closes preview images of model space and layouts in the current drawing. |
| R | REDRAW / Refreshes the display in the current viewport. |
| RC | REVCLOUD /Creates or modifies a revision cloud. |
| 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. |
| REV | REVDATE /Inserts or updates a block containing user name, current time and date, and drawing name. |
| RO | ROTATE / Rotates objects around a base point. |
S-U
| 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 / Starts the VSCURRENT command. |
| 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 spline-fit 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 / Creates a new region by subtracting one overlapping region from another. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| UC | UCSMAN / Manages defined user coordinate systems. |
| UN | UNITS / Controls coordinate and angle display formats and precision. |
| UNHIDE | UNISOLATEOBJECTS / Displays UNISOLATE objects previously hidden with the ISOLATEOBJECTS or HIDEOBJECTS command. |
| UNI | UNION / Unions two solid or two region objects. |
V-Z
| V | VIEW / Saves and restores named views, camera views, layout views, and preset views. |
| VGO | VIEWGO / Restores a named view. |
| 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 | 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. |
| Z | ZOOM / Increases or decreases the magnification of the view in the current viewport. |
| ZIP | ETRANSMIT / Creates a Self-Extracting or Zipped Transmittal Package. |
