Technical data

Accessing AutoCAD Land Development Desktop Commands

Key Concepts

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AutoCAD Land Development Desktop has a shortcut menu for grip

editing. Select an object in the drawing to display the grips, select a

grip, and then right-click to display the shortcut menu. For more

information, see “Working with Editing Tools” in Chapter 4,

“Working with Drawing and Editing Tools.”

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While you are using real-time panning and zooming, you can

right-click to display shortcut menus with specific options for

those commands.

To display the default drawing tools shortcut menu, hold down the

SHIFT key and right-click. The shortcut menus are displayed at the

cursor location. For more information, see “Using Shortcut Menus” in

the online Help.

Command Line

You can access commands from menus or toolbars by typing them on

the command line. At the Command prompt, enter either the whole

command name or the abbreviated name called a command alias, and

then press ENTER, the SPACEBAR, or right-click.

To use the same AutoCAD command consecutively, type multiple

before the command name. For example, if you plan to draw more

than one identical circle, type multiple circle.

During the drawing session, pay attention to the command line.

Many commands display prompts with further options, and other

commands display a dialog box. If you want to respond to prompts on

the command line and suppress the display of a dialog box, then enter

a hyphen (-) before the command name or command alias. For

example, if you enter osnap on the command line, then the Drafting

Settings dialog box is displayed. If you enter

osnap, then you can set

the object snap modes on the command line. There are slight

differences between command line options and dialog box options.