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 curated 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 the AutoCAD software. Also, don't forget to download AutoCAD blocks for free on our website.

Guide to AutoCAD keyboard commands

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 that you should learn

Q/QSAVE / Saves the current drawing.
A/ARC / Create 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 / 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 / Creates a multiline text object.
G/GROUP / Creates and manages 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 / Moves objects a specified distance in a specified direction.
I/INSERT / Inserts a block or drawing into 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 architecture and engineering projects in AutoCAD.

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

TXT2MTXT AutoCAD command to convert a simple text to multi text
SELECTSIMILARMultiple 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 the same time.
MIRRTEXT This command allows that when you mirror the text it does not remain as a mirror:
0 for text – 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 convert 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).
FRAMES Turn frames on images on or off.
OOPS This command is used to solve a very particular situation. Remember that the (Undo) command allows you to go back, losing the changes that were made. The (OOPS) command allows us to recover the last deleted object or objects without losing any changes or progress made later.
SUPER HATCH Command that is used to Hatch with custom blocks or filled with images. See tutorial Command Superhatch
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 Allows you to list texts in chronological order, very useful, for example, to list parking spaces.
CTRL+0 This command expands the drawing area on the screen, leaving only the menus, status bar and the area of commands, to leave in the normal state repeat ctrl+0
OVERKILL It is 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 that path
PLINEGEN with 0 (zero) Generates polylines from start to end with dashes on each edge of the segments. With 1 you generate polylines taking the complete entity, that is, as if it were a single segment.
ETRANSMIT Command that collects and compresses everything in a file such as external references, images, plot settings, text fonts. This helps a lot to transfer information without missing anything.
PSLTSCALE allows you to match the scale of the line type of space in Model and paper space, just by setting it to 0 (zero)

AutoCAD Command Shortcuts Guide in 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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