AutoCAD Tutorial to Use the Shift Key as a Shortcut

October 26th, 2009

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You can use the Shift key in AutoCAD in many ways to help make your AutoCAD tasks easier and quicker:

• Press Shift with the FILLET or CHAMFER command to change the radius to 0 and extend to lines to meet
• Press and hold Shift to temporarily override ORTHO.
• Press and hold Shift+A to temporarily override OSNAP.
• Press Shift to change TRIM to EXTEND and vice versa.
• Press Shift and pick objects to remove them from the current selection set. You can also press Shift and click a window or crossing selection.
• If you have several objects that overlap at a point, mouse over that point, press Shift and press the Spacebar repeatedly to cycle through these objects

• In the AutoCAD Text window (press F2 to open and close it), press SHIFT with a key to highlight text. For example, press Shift + Home to highlight text from the cursor to the beginning of the line. Or press Shift + the Up arrow to select the previous line of prompts.

Here are all the keyboard shortcuts I could find in AutoCAD’s Help that use Shift:

• SHIFT+, Object Snap Override: Center
• SHIFT+. Toggles Polar Tracking
• SHIFT+/ Toggles UCSDETECT
• SHIFT+; Enables Object Snap Enforcement
• SHIFT+] Toggles Object Snap Tracking
• SHIFT+C Object Snap Override: Center
• SHIFT+D Disable All Snapping and Tracking
• SHIFT+E Object Snap Override: Endpoint
• SHIFT+L Disable All Snapping and Tracking
• SHIFT+M Object Snap Override: Midpoint
• SHIFT+P Object Snap Override: Endpoint
• SHIFT+Q Toggles Object Snap Tracking
• SHIFT+S Enables Object Snap Enforcement
• SHIFT+V Object Snap Override: Midpoint
• SHIFT+X Toggles Polar Tracking
• SHIFT+Z Toggles UCSDETECT

Several people mentioned Shift + right mouse button to display the OSNAP menu. Of course! That was probably the first Shift shortcut we ever used!

Several people mentioned Shift + middle mouse button (usually the scroll wheel) to transparently go into 3D orbit. Another good one! We use that a lot when we’re working in 3D.

Several people mentioned pressing Shift and clicking multiple grips, to select them.

Several people mentioned two great ones, which work well together:

• Ctrl+Shift+C: This is the COPYBASE command. It copies a selected object, prompting you for the base point.
• Ctrl+Shift+V: This is the PASTEBLOCK command. It pastes an object that you copied to the clipboard as a block. (AutoCAD assigns it a name.)

A couple of people noted that you can set AutoCAD (on the Drafting tab of the Options dialog box) to require pressing the Shift key to acquire a point for tracking; it’s not the default setting, though. As a matter of fact, you can set AutoCAD (on the Selection tab of the Options dialog box) to require pressing the Shift key to select more than one object at a time (the way you do in most other programs).

See also ‘AutoCAD Tutorial to Make Keyboard Shortcuts‘, ‘AutoCAD Tutorial to Create a Custom Keyboard Shortcut‘, and ‘AutoCAD Tutorial to Create a Command Alias or Keyboard Shortcut‘ that related with this ‘AutoCAD Tutorial to Use the Shift Key as a Shortcut’ above..

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