List of AutoCAD Commands in English and Spanish

In this article you will find a list of all AutoCAD commands in English and Spanish, as well as the best commands, shortcuts, guides, tips and tricks to speed up your designs and architecture and engineering projects.

We have also selected a special list of supplies AutoCAD commands online that facilitate our work as a design tool.

Our experience has allowed us to discover what kind of AutoCAD commands in English and Spanish will help us develop a project faster and more efficiently.

Remember that time is money and with this list of grammar tips you will increase the time to complete the project in AutoCAD software. Also, don't forget to download free AutoCAD blocks on our website.

AutoCAD command guide with the keyboard

In this guide to basic AutoCAD commands in English with the keyboard, we advise you to learn them faster when designing, since in my experience designing in AutoCAD 2022 by typing the command abbreviations is more efficient and faster. Save them and get going!

List of basic AutoCAD commands you should learn

Q / QSAVE / Save 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 / Stretch objects crossed by a selection window or polygon.
X / EXPLODE / Breaks a composite object into its component objects.
E / ERASE / Removes objects from a drawing.
D / DIMSTYLE / Create and modify dimension styles.
C / CIRCLE / Create a circle.
R / REDRAW / Refreshes the display in the current viewport.
F / FILLET / Rounds and fillets the edges of objects.
V / VIEW / Save and restore named views, camera views, layout views and preset views.
T/MTEXT / Create a multiline text object.
G / GROUP / Create and manage sets of saved objects called groups.
B / BLOCK / Creates a block definition from the selected objects.
H / HATCH / Fills an enclosed area or selected objects with a hatch pattern, solid fill, or fountain fill.
J / JOIN / Join similar objects to form a single unbroken object.
M / MOVE / Move objects a specific distance in a specific direction.
I / INSERT / Inserts a block or drawing in the current drawing.
OR / OFFSET / Create concentric circles, parallel lines and parallel curves.
L / LINE / Creates straight line segments.
P/BREAD / Adds a parameter with grips to a dynamic block definition.

List of Advanced AutoCAD Commands You Should Try

Take a look at this list of AutoCAD commands for English students and professionals that you may not know and that can bring positive things to your AutoCAD architecture and engineering projects.

In the following article, you will see a list of all AutoCAD commands in English and Spanish.

TXT2MTXT AutoCAD command to pass a simple text to multi text
SELECT SIMILARmultiple selection, considering its properties, we have to select one of the objects and the others are also selected. It is possible to choose more than one type of object at a time.
MIRRTEXT This command allows that when you do a mirror the text does not remain as a mirror:
0 so that the text – is not mirrored
1 for the text – if it is mirrored
XCLIP AutoCAD command that allows you to hide lines in xrefs or blocks using a polygon.
FLATTEN you can pass 3d content to 2d with polylines
LAYON AutoCAD command to turn on all layers at the same time.
LAYISO We touch a layer and if we type Layiso all will be turned off except the "layer" object that is selected.
LAYTHW allows you to turn on all layers (snowflake symbol).
TFRAMES Turn frames on images on or off.
UNRWAThis command is used to solve a very particular situation. Remember that the command (Undo) allows you to go back, losing the changes that were made. The (OOPS) command allows us to recover the last object or objects deleted without losing the changes or progress that has been made later.
SUPER HATCH Command used to make Hatch with custom blocks or filled with images. See tutorial Superhatch command
CHAMFER Bevels or chamfers the edge of two objects or lines.
QSELECT This AutoCAD command works to make quick selections according to layers, by color, type of lines etc.
TCOUNT It allows you to list texts following a chronological order, very useful for example to list parking spaces.
CTRL+0 East command enlarges the drawing area on the screen, leaving only the menus, status bar, and the drawing area. commands, to leave in the normal state repeat ctrl+0
OVERKILL Used to erase double lines or overlapping lines
LAYOFF This AutoCAD command works the other way around Layisso, in this case we will turn off the layer that is selected.
MEASURE You can copy a block every x units along a polyline, with the option to align the block along said path
PLINEGEN with 0 (zero) You generate polylines from the start to the end with dashes at each edge of the segments. With 1 you generate polylines taking the entire entity, that is, as if it were a single segment.
ETRANSMIT Command that collects and compresses everything that a file includes such as External References, images, plot settings, text sources. This helps a lot to transfer information without missing anything.
PSLTSCALE allows to match the scale of line type of space in Model and paper space, just by setting it to 0 (zero)

AutoCAD Command Shortcut Guide PDF

AutoCAD Autodesk developed a pdf document that serves as a guide with an alphabetical list of all AutoCAD commands in English.

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