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Special characters used in macros
DescriptionCharacter
Turns Grid on or off (equivalent to Control-G)^G
Issues Backspace^H
Turns Ortho on or off^O
Turns MENUECHO on or off^P
Echoes all prompts, status listings, and input to the printer^Q
Turns command versioning on or off. Command versioning is required
for some commands to ensure command macros written in an older
release work properly in the latest release.
^R
Changes the current viewport^V
Null character that suppresses the automatic addition of Spacebar at
the end of a command
^Z
Pause for User Input in Macros
To accept input from the keyboard or pointing device in the middle of a
command, place a backslash (\) in the macro at the point where you want
input.
circle \1
In the circle example, \1 pauses for the user to specify the center point and
then reads a radius of 1. Note that there is no space after the backslash.
-layer off \;
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