AutoCAD Command Reference

Posted on Sep 10, 2024 in Technology

3D

  • 3D: Creates three-dimensional polygon mesh objects
  • 3DARRAY: Creates a three-dimensional array
  • 3DFACE: Creates a three-dimensional face
  • 3DMESH: Creates a free-form polygon mesh
  • 3DPOLY: Creates a polyline of straight line segments in three-dimensional space
  • 3DSIN: Imports a 3D Studio File
  • 3DSOUT: Exports to a 3D Studio file

A

  • ‘ABOUT: Displays information about AutoCAD
  • ACISIN: Imports an ACIS file
  • ACISOUT: Exports AutoCAD solid objects to an ACIS file
  • ALIGN: Moves and rotates objects to align with other objects
  • AMECONVERT: Converts AME solid models to AutoCAD solid objects
  • ‘APERTURE: Controls the size of the object snap target box
  • ‘APPLOAD: Loads AutoLISP, ADS, and ARX applications
  • ARC: Creates an arc
  • AREA: Calculates the area and perimeter of objects or of defined areas
  • ARRAY: Creates multiple copies of objects in a pattern
  • ARX: Loads, unloads, and provides information about ARX applications
  • ASEADMIN: Performs administrative functions for external database commands
  • ASEEXPORT: Exports link information for selected objects
  • ASELINKS: Manages links between objects and an external database
  • ASEROWS: Displays and edits table data and creates links and selection sets
  • ASESELECT: Creates a selection set from rows linked to textual selection sets and graphic selection sets
  • ASESQLED: Executes Structured Query Language (SQL) statements
  • ATTDEF: Creates an attribute definition
  • ‘ATTDISP: Globally controls attribute visibility
  • ATTEDIT: Changes attribute information independent of its block definition
  • ATTEXT: Extracts attribute data
  • ATTREDEF: Redefines a block and updates associated attributes
  • AUDIT: Evaluates the integrity of a drawing

B

  • BACKGROUND: Sets up the background for your scene
  • ‘BASE: Sets the insertion base point for the current drawing
  • BHATCH: Fills an enclosed area with a hatch pattern
  • ‘BLIPMODE: Controls the display of marker blips
  • BLOCK: Creates a block definition from selected objects
  • BMAKE: Defines a block using a dialog box
  • BMPOUT: Saves selected objects to a file in device-independent bitmap format
  • BOUNDARY: Creates a region or a polyline from an enclosed area
  • BOX: Creates a three-dimensional solid box
  • BREAK: Erases parts of objects or splits an object in two
  • BROWSER: Launches the default Web browser defined in your system’s registry

C

  • ‘CAL: Evaluates mathematical and geometric expressions
  • CHAMFER: Bevels the edges of objects
  • CHANGE: Changes the properties of existing objects
  • CHPROP: Changes the color, layer, linetype, linetype scale factor, and thickness of an object
  • CIRCLE: Creates a circle
  • ‘COLOR: Sets the color for new objects
  • COMPILE: Compiles shape files and PostScript font files
  • CONE: Creates a three-dimensional solid cone
  • CONVERT: Converts 2D polylines and associative hatches to the optimized Release 14 format
  • COPY: Duplicates objects
  • COPYCLIP: Copies objects to the Clipboard
  • COPYHIST: Copies the text in the command line history to the Clipboard
  • COPYLINK: Copies the current view to the Clipboard for linking to other OLE applications
  • CUTCLIP: Copies objects to the Clipboard and erases the objects from the drawing
  • CYLINDER: Creates a three-dimensional solid cylinder

D

  • DBLIST: Lists database information for each object in the drawing
  • DDATTDEF: Creates an attribute definition
  • DDATTE: Edits the variable attributes of a block
  • DDATTEXT: Extracts attribute data
  • DDCHPROP: Changes the color, layer, linetype, and thickness of an object
  • DDCOLOR: Sets the color for new objects
  • DDEDIT: Edits text and attribute definitions
  • ‘DDGRIPS: Turns on grips and sets their color
  • DDIM: Creates and modifies dimension styles
  • DDINSERT: Inserts a block or another drawing
  • DDMODIFY: Controls properties of existing objects
  • ‘DDPTYPE: Specifies the display mode and size of point objects
  • DDRENAME: Changes the names of named objects
  • ‘DDRMODES: Sets drawing aids
  • ‘DDSELECT: Sets object selection modes
  • DDUCS: Manages defined user coordinate systems
  • DDUCSP: Selects a preset user coordinate system
  • ‘DDUNITS: Controls coordinate and angle display formats and determines precision
  • DDVIEW: Creates and restores views
  • DDVPOINT: Sets the three-dimensional viewing direction
  • ‘DELAY: Provides a timed pause within a script
  • DIM: Accesses Dimensioning mode
  • DIMALIGNED: Creates an aligned linear dimension
  • DIMANGULAR: Creates an angular dimension
  • DIMBASELINE: Continues a linear, angular, or ordinate dimension from the baseline of the previous or selected dimension
  • DIMCENTER: Creates the center mark or the center lines of circles and arcs
  • DIMCONTINUE: Continues a linear, angular, or ordinate dimension from the second extension line of the previous or a selected dimension
  • DIMDIAMETER: Creates diameter dimensions for circles and arcs
  • DIMEDIT: Edits dimensions
  • DIMLINEAR: Creates linear dimensions
  • DIMORDINATE: Creates ordinate point dimensions
  • DIMOVERRIDE: Overrides dimension system variables
  • DIMRADIUS: Creates radial dimensions for circles and arcs
  • DIMSTYLE: Creates and modifies dimension styles on the command line
  • DIMTEDIT: Moves and rotates dimension text
  • ‘DIST: Measures the distance and angle between two points
  • DIVIDE: Places evenly spaced point objects or blocks along the length or perimeter of an object
  • DONUT: Draws filled circles and rings
  • ‘DRAGMODE: Controls the way dragged objects are displayed
  • DRAWORDER: Changes the display order of images and other objects
  • DSVIEWER: Opens the Aerial View window
  • DTEXT: Displays text on screen as it is entered
  • DVIEW: Defines parallel projection or perspective views
  • DWFOUT: Exports a drawing web format file
  • DXBIN: Imports specially coded binary files
  • DXFIN: Imports a drawing interchange file
  • DXFOUT: Creates a drawing interchange file of the current drawing

E

  • EDGE: Changes the visibility of three-dimensional face edges
  • EDGESURF: Creates a three-dimensional polygon mesh
  • ‘ELEV: Sets elevation and extrusion thickness properties of new objects
  • ELLIPSE: Creates an ellipse or an elliptical arc
  • ERASE: Removes objects from a drawing
  • EXPLODE: Breaks a compound object into its component objects
  • EXPORT: Saves objects to other file formats
  • EXTEND: Extends an object to meet another object
  • EXTRUDE: Creates unique solid primitives by extruding existing two-dimensional objects

F

  • ‘FILL: Controls the filling of multilines, traces, solids, solid-fill hatches, and wide polylines
  • FILLET: Rounds and fillets the edges of objects
  • ‘FILTER: Creates lists to select objects based on properties
  • FOG: Provides visual cues for the apparent distance of objects

G

  • ‘GRAPHSCR: Switches from the text window to the graphics area
  • ‘GRID: Displays a dot grid
  • GROUP: Creates a named selection set of objects

H

  • HATCH: Fills a specified boundary with a pattern
  • HATCHEDIT: Modifies an existing hatch object
  • ‘HELP (): Displays online help
  • HIDE: Regenerates a three-dimensional model with hidden lines suppressed

I

  • ‘ID: Displays the coordinate values of a location
  • IMAGE: Inserts images in many formats into an AutoCAD drawing file
  • IMAGEADJUST: Controls the brightness, contrast and fade values of the selected image
  • IMAGEATTACH: Attaches a new image object and definition
  • IMAGECLIP: Creates new clipping boundaries for single image objects
  • IMAGEFRAME: Controls whether the image frame is displayed on the screen or hidden from view
  • IMAGEQUALITY: Controls the display quality of images
  • IMPORT: Imports various file formats into AutoCAD
  • INSERT: Places a named block or drawing into the current drawing
  • INSERTOBJ: Inserts a linked or embedded object
  • INTERFERE: Finds the interference of two or more three-dimensional solids and creates a composite 3D solid from their common volume
  • INTERSECT: Creates composite solids or regions from the intersection of two or more solids or regions
  • ‘ISOPLANE: Specifies the current isometric plane

L

  • ‘LAYER: Manages layers
  • LEADER: Creates a line that connects annotation to a feature
  • LENGTHEN: Lengthens an object
  • LIGHT: Manages lights and lighting effects
  • ‘LIMITS: Sets and controls the drawing boundaries
  • LINE: Creates straight line segments
  • ‘LINETYPE: Creates, loads, and sets linetypes
  • LIST: Displays database information for selected objects
  • LOAD: Makes shapes available for use by the SHAPE command
  • LOGFILEOFF: Closes the log file opened by LOGFILEON
  • LOGFILEON: Writes the text window contents to a file
  • LSEDIT: Lets you edit a landscape object
  • LSLIB: Lets you maintain libraries of landscape objects
  • LSNEW: Lets you add realistic landscape items, such as trees and bushes, to your drawings
  • ‘LTSCALE: Sets the linetype scale factor

M

  • MASSPROP: Calculates and displays the mass properties of regions or solids
  • ‘MATCHPROP: Copies the properties from one object to one or more objects
  • MATLIB: Imports and exports materials to and from a library of materials
  • MEASURE: Places point objects or blocks at measured intervals on an object
  • MENU: Loads a menu file
  • MENULOAD: Loads partial menu files
  • MENUUNLOAD: Unloads partial menu files
  • MINSERT: Inserts multiple instances of a block in a rectangular array
  • MIRROR: Creates a mirror image copy of objects
  • MIRROR3D: Creates a mirror image of objects about a plane
  • MLEDIT: Edits multiple parallel lines
  • MLINE: Creates multiple parallel lines
  • MLSTYLE: Defines a style for multiple parallel lines
  • MOVE: Displaces objects a specified distance in a specified direction
  • MSLIDE: Creates a slide file of the current viewport
  • MSPACE: Switches from paper space to a model space viewport
  • MTEXT: Creates multiline text
  • MULTIPLE: Repeats the next command until canceled
  • MVIEW: Creates floating viewports and turns on existing floating viewports
  • MVSETUP: Sets up the specifications of a drawing

N

  • NEW: Creates a new drawing file

O

  • OFFSET: Creates concentric circles, parallel lines, and parallel curves
  • OLELINKS: Updates, changes, and cancels existing OLE links
  • OOPS: Restores erased objects
  • OPEN: Opens an existing drawing file
  • ‘ORTHO: Constrains cursor movement
  • ‘OSNAP: Sets running object snap modes and changes the target box size

P

  • ‘PAN: Moves the drawing display in the current viewport
  • PASTECLIP: Inserts data from the Clipboard
  • PASTESPEC: Inserts data from the Clipboard and controls the format of the data
  • PEDIT: Edits polylines and three-dimensional polygon meshes
  • PFACE: Creates a three-dimensional polyface mesh vertex by vertex
  • PLAN: Displays the plan view of a user coordinate system
  • PLINE: Creates two-dimensional polylines
  • PLOT: Plots a drawing to a plotter, printer, or file
  • POINT: Creates a point object
  • POLYGON: Creates an equilateral closed polyline
  • PREFERENCES: Customizes the AutoCAD settings
  • PREVIEW: Shows how the drawing will look when it is printed or plotted
  • PSDRAG: Controls the appearance of a PostScript image as it is dragged into position with PSIN
  • PSFILL: Fills a two-dimensional polyline outline with a PostScript pattern
  • PSIN: Imports a PostScript file
  • PSOUT: Creates an Encapsulated PostScript file
  • PSPACE: Switches from a model space viewport to paper space
  • PURGE: Removes unused named objects, such as blocks or layers, from the database

Q

  • QSAVE: Saves the current drawing
  • ‘QTEXT: Controls the display and plotting of text and attribute objects
  • QUIT: Exits AutoCAD

R

  • RAY: Creates a semi-infinite line
  • RECOVER: Repairs a damaged drawing
  • RECTANG: Draws a rectangular polyline
  • REDEFINE: Restores AutoCAD internal commands overridden by UNDEFINE
  • REDO: Reverses the effects of the previous UNDO or U command
  • ‘REDRAW: Refreshes the display of the current viewport
  • ‘REDRAWALL: Refreshes the display of all viewports
  • REGEN: Regenerates the drawing and refreshes the current viewport
  • REGENALL: Regenerates the drawing and refreshes all viewports
  • ‘REGENAUTO: Controls automatic regeneration of a drawing
  • REGION: Creates a region object from a selection set of existing objects
  • REINIT: Reinitializes the digitizer, digitizer input/output port, and program parameters file
  • RENAME: Changes the names of objects
  • RENDER: Creates a realistically shaded image of a three-dimensional wireframe or solid model
  • REPLAY: Displays a BMP, TGA, or TIFF image
  • ‘RESUME: Continues an interrupted script
  • REVOLVE: Creates a solid by revolving a two-dimensional object about an axis
  • REVSURF: Creates a rotated surface about a selected axis
  • RMAT: Manages rendering materials
  • ROTATE: Moves objects about a base point
  • ROTATE3D: Moves objects about a three-dimensional axis
  • RPREF: Sets rendering preferences
  • RSCRIPT: Creates a script that repeats continuously
  • RULESURF: Creates a ruled surface between two curves

S

  • SAVE: Saves the drawing under the current file name or a specified name
  • SAVEAS: Saves an unnamed drawing with a file name or renames the current drawing
  • SAVEIMG: Saves a rendered image to a file
  • SCALE: Enlarges or reduces selected objects equally in the X, Y, and Z directions
  • SCENE: Manages scenes in model space
  • ‘SCRIPT: Executes a sequence of commands from a script
  • SECTION: Uses the intersection of a plane and solids to create a region
  • SELECT: Places selected objects in the Previous selection set
  • SETUV: Lets you map materials onto geometry
  • ‘SETVAR: Lists or changes the values of system variables
  • SHADE: Displays a flat-shaded image of the drawing in the current viewport
  • SHAPE: Inserts a shape
  • SHELL: Accesses operating system commands
  • SHOWMAT: Lists the material type and attachment method for a selected object
  • SKETCH: Creates a series of freehand line segments
  • SLICE: Slices a set of solids with a plane
  • ‘SNAP: Restricts cursor movement to specified intervals
  • SOLDRAW: Generates profiles and sections in viewports created with SOLVIEW
  • SOLID: Creates solid-filled polygons
  • SOLPROF: Creates profile images of three-dimensional solids
  • SOLVIEW: Creates floating viewports using orthographic projection to lay out multi- and sectional view drawings of 3D solid and body objects
  • ‘SPELL: Checks spelling in a drawing
  • SPHERE: Creates a three-dimensional solid sphere
  • SPLINE: Creates a quadratic or cubic spline (NURBS) curve
  • SPLINEDIT: Edits a spline object
  • STATS: Displays rendering statistics
  • ‘STATUS: Displays drawing statistics, modes, and extents
  • STLOUT: Stores a solid in an ASCII or binary file
  • STRETCH: Moves or stretches objects
  • ‘STYLE: Creates named styles
  • SUBTRACT: Creates a composite region or solid by subtraction
  • SYSWINDOWS: Arranges windows

T

  • TABLET: Calibrates, configures, and turns on and off an attached digitizing tablet
  • TABSURF: Creates a tabulated surface from a path curve and a direction vector
  • TEXT: Creates a single line of text
  • ‘TEXTSCR: Opens the AutoCAD text window
  • ‘TIME: Displays the date and time statistics of a drawing
  • TOLERANCE: Creates geometric tolerances
  • TOOLBAR: Displays, hides, and customizes toolbars
  • TORUS: Creates a donut-shaped solid
  • TRACE: Creates solid lines
  • TRANSPARENCY: Controls whether background pixels in an image are transparent or opaque
  • ‘TREESTAT: Displays information about the drawing’s current spatial index
  • TRIM: Trims objects at a cutting edge defined by other objects

U

  • U: Reverses the most recent operation
  • UCS: Manages user coordinate systems
  • UCSICON: Controls the visibility and placement of the UCS icon
  • UNDEFINE: Allows an application-defined command to override an internal AutoCAD command
  • UNDO: Reverses the effect of commands
  • UNION: Creates a composite region or solid
  • ‘UNITS: Sets coordinate and angle display formats and precision

V

  • ‘VIEW: Saves and restores named views
  • VIEWRRES: Sets the resolution for object generation in the current viewport
  • VPLAYERS: Sets layer visibility within viewports
  • VPOINT: Sets the viewing direction for a three-dimensional visualization of the drawing
  • VPORTS: Divides the graphics area into multiple tiled viewports
  • VSLIDE: Displays a raster image slide file in the current viewport

W

  • WBLOCK: Writes objects to a new drawing file
  • WEDGE: Creates a 3D solid with a sloped face tapering along the X axis
  • WMFIN: Imports a Windows metafile
  • WMFOPTS: Sets options for WMFIN
  • WMFOUT: Saves objects to a Windows metafile

X

  • XATTACH: Attaches an external reference to the current drawing
  • XBIND: Binds dependent symbols of an xref to a drawing
  • XCLIP: Defines an xref clipping boundary and sets the front or backclipping planes
  • XLINE: Creates an infinite line
  • XPLODE: Breaks a compound object into its component objects
  • XREF: Controls external references to drawing files

Z

  • ‘ZOOM: Increases or decreases the apparent size of objects in the current viewport