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- A Draw arc with center, radius, angle.
- B Define a Block
- C Draw a curve.
- D Delete a section of the drawing.
- E Erase an entity.
- F Fillet a corner.
- Alt-F Chamfer a corner.
- G Turn the Snap Grid on or off.
- Alt-G Set the Snap Grid size.
- H Change drawing color.
- I Display information about a line.
- J Set the status line format.
- K Move to the nearest line and set a point there.
- L Layer command.
- O Draw a circle.
- P Draw a plane surface.
- Q Enter drawing parameters.
- ALT-Q Enter System Parameters.
- R Rotate the drawing.
- S Stretch a section of the drawing.
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- T Draw Text.
- ALT-T Draw text made of vectors.
- U Specify units of measurement.
- V Draw a line.
- ALT-V Draw a line vertically or horizontally.
- X Extrude a Block Linearly.
- ALT-X Extrude a Block with different scale factors
- Y Clear the Screen.
- Z Zoom in or out.
- ALT-Z Static Zoom.
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- ] Draw a box.
- > Draw an Arrow.
- $ Enter an Attribute.
- @ Dimension horizontally or vertically.
- & Save the Macro being defined.
- * Move a point in a line.
- + Change cursor type.
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- 0 Set a point at the current cursor position.
- , Move the cursor to the nearest point.
- . Move the cursor to the nearest point and set a point there.
- : Set a point using X,Y,Z coordinates.
- ; Set a point using polar coordinates.
- [ Enable the rubber band box.
- - Enable the rubber band line.
- ? Display DesignCAD 3-D menu commands.
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- F3 Repeat the last command.
- F4 Save a 2-D view of the drawing.
- F5 Output the drawing to the printer.
- F6 Output the drawing to the plotter.
- F7 Display drawings on disk.
- F8 Stop the program.
- F9 Read a drawing or symbol from disk.
- F10 Save the drawing.
- ESC Undo the last line or entity drawn.
- ! "Unerase" the last thing erased.
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- ARC A Draw arc with center, radius, angle.
- ARC-2 A2 A2 Draw arc using beginning, end, radius.
- ARC-3 A3 Draw arc using 3 points.
- ARROW > Draw an Arrow.
- ATTRIBUTE ATTR Enter an Attribute.
- BLK ADD BA Add an entity to a Block.
- BLK ALL Define all active layers to be a block.
- BLK CIRC BC Duplicate a Block in a circle.
- BLK COLOR BCO Change the color of a Block.
- BLK DEF B Define a Block
- BLK DEFC Define a Block with cutoff.
- BLK DEL BD Delete a Block.
- BLK EXTR BX Extrude a Block Linearly.
- BLK EXV BXV Extrude a Block Linearly, Varying Scales
- BLK HANDL BH Set or move the Block's Handle.
- BLK INSERT BI Copy a Block one time.
- BLK LAYER BL Change the layer of a Block.
- BLK LOAD BLO Read a drawing from disk as a Block.
- BLK MIR. BMI Make a mirror image of a Block.
- BLK MOVE BM Move a block from one location to another.
- BLK REPT BR Duplicate a Block a number of times.
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- BLK RESET BRE "Undefine" a Block.
- BLK ROTAT BRO Rotate a Block.
- BLK SAVE BS Save a Block to disk.
- BLK SCALE BSC Change height/width/depth ratio of a block.
- BLK SLICE BSL Slice (get the cross section of) a block.
- BLK SPIRL SP "Sweep" a Block in a Spiral.
- BLK SWEEP SW Extrude a Block circularly.
- BLK ZOOM BZ Zoom a Block.
- BOX ] Draw a box.
- CTR GRAV CG Calculate the center of gravity of a Solid.
- CHAMFER CHF Chamfer or "cut off" a corner.
- CHANGE CH Change the characteristics of a line.
- CHDIR CD Change to another subdirectory.
- CIRCLE CIR Draw a circle using center and radius.
- CIRCLE-2 C2 Draw a circle using the diameter.
- CIRCLE-3 C3 Draw a 3-point circle.
- CIRCTAN CT Draw a line tangent to a circle.
- CLEAR ALL CLS Clear the Screen.
- COLOR H Change drawing color.
- COMBINE CM Combine connecting lines into a single entity
- CONE Draw a cone.
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- CNFG SAVE CSA Save system configuration information.
- CONNECT CN Create ruled surface between lines.
- CONNECTC CC Create ruled surface between curves.
- CONNECTS CS Create ruled surface with smoothing.
- CTR GRAV CG Find the geographic center of a line.
- CURS STEP CST Set the cursor step size.
- CURS TYPE + Change cursor type.
- CURVE C Draw a curve.
- CUT PLANE CPL Cut a plane along a line.
- CYLINDER CYL Draw a cylinder.
- DIMENSION DIM Dimension horizontally or vertically.
- DIM ANGLE DA Dimension an angle.
- DIM LINE DL Dimension at any angle.
- DIRECTORY DIR Display drawings on disk.
- DISC Draw a circle that is a plane.
- DRAWING DP Enter drawing parameters.
- DRILL DR Cut hole in surface.
- END Stop the program.
- ERASE E Erase an entity.
- FILLET F Fillets intersection of 2 lines with user specified radius.
- FONT Change the character font.
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- GRAV MOVE GM Move the cursor to the nearest point.
- GRAVITY GV Move the cursor to the nearest point and set a point there.
- HELP ? Display DesignCAD 3-D menu commands.
- HEMISPHER HEMI Draw half a sphere.
- HIDE Perform hidden line removal.
- HIDE2 Perform hidden line removal on View 2.
- HIDE3 Perform hidden line removal on View 3.
- HIDE4 Perform hidden line removal on View 4.
- ID Display information about a line.
- INTERFERE IF Perform interference checking on two solids.
- INTERSECT INT Find the intersection between 2 lines.
- JOIN Connect two or more lines.
- LAYER L Layer command.
- LINE V Draw a line.
- LINEPLANE LP Finds intersection of a line and a plane.
- LINESNAP LS Snap to the nearest line.
- MAC DEF MD Define a Macro.
- MAC EXEC ME Execute a Macro.
- MAKEPLANE MP Makes a plane out of a polygon.
- MEMORY MEM Show available drawing space.
- MIDPOINT MID Snap to the midpoint of a line.
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- OOPS ! "Unerase" the last thing erased.
- ORIGIN Move the origin of the drawing.
- ORTHOLIN OL Draw a line vertically or horizontally.
- PAN Pan the drawing across the screen.
- PATCH PA Create Coons patch between 4 lines, curves or arcs.
- PERP Draw aendicular
- PLANE P Draw a plane surface.
- PLANEPLAN PLPL Find intersection between 2 planes.
- PLANESNAP PS Snap to the nearest plane.
- PLOT Output the drawing to the plotter.
- POINT MOV PM Move a point in a line.
- POINT XYZ PXYZ Set a point using X,Y,Z coordinates.
- POINT PLR PP Set a point using polar coordinates.
- POINT REL PR Set a point using relative X,Y,Z coordinates.
- POLYGON POLY Draw a regular polygon.
- PRINT Output the drawing to the printer.
- RETRIEVE LOAD Read a drawing or symbol from disk.
- ROTATE R Rotate the drawing.
- RUB BOX RB Enable the rubber band box.
- RUB LINE RL Enable the rubber band line.
- RUN Run a BasiCAD program.
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- SAVE Save the drawing.
- SAVE 2D Save a 2-D view of the drawing.
- SCR READ SR Read a screen image from disk.
- SCR SAVE SS Save a screen image to disk.
- SEC DEL D Delete a section of the drawing.
- SEC DELC Delete a section of the drawing, with cutoff.
- SHADE Shade the drawing on the screen.
- SHADE2 Shade the drawing on the screen, View 2.
- SHADE3 Shade the drawing on the screen, View 3.
- SHADE4 Shade the drawing on the screen, View 4.
- SLICE SL Erase parts of the drawing in front of a plane.
- SLIDESHOW SLIDES Construct a slide show for DCSLIDE.
- SNAP GRID SNAP Turn the Snap Grid on or off.
- SOLID ADD ADD Add two Solids together (perform a union operation).
- SOLID BLK SB Define a Solid as a block.
- SOLID DEF SO Define a Solid.
- SOLID INT SINT Perform an intersection operation on two solids.
- SOLIDMOVE SM Move a Solid from one location to another.
- SOLID SUB SUB Subtract one Solid from another Solid.
- SPHERE BALL Draw a Sphere
- STATUS LN ST Set the status line format.
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- STRETCH S Stretch a section of the drawing.
- SURF AREA SA Calculate the surface area of a single plane or surface.
- SURF-SURF SFSF Get the intersection line between two surfaces.
- SYSTEM SP Enter System Parameters.
- TEXT T Draw Text.
- TEXTV Draw Text made of vectors.
- TEXT SIZE TS Set the default text size.
- UNDO Undo the last line or entity drawn.
- UNITS U Specify units of measurement.
- UNWPLANE UNWP Reset working plane to real plane.
- VIEW Set the viewing angle of the screen.
- VIEW READ VR Read a view from disk.
- VIEW SAVE VS Save the current view to disk.
- VOLUME VOL Calculate the volume and surface area of a Solid.
- WALL W Draw a wall with default thickness defined by DRAWING
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- WPLANE WP Define the working plane.
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- ZOOM Z Zoom in or out.
- ZOOMSTAT ZS Static Zoom.
- ZOOM1 Z1 Zoom view 1 only.
- ZOOM2 Z2 Zoom view 2 only.
- ZOOM3 Z3 Zoom view 3 only.
- ZOOM4 Z4 Zoom view 4 only.
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- DesignCAD Character Fonts
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- Font 1 - Simplex 1
- Font 2 - Simplex Curved
- Font 3 - Simplex Roman
- Font 4 - Complex Roman
- Font 5 - Complex Italic
- Font 6 - Duplex Roman
- Font 7 - Triplex Roman
- Font 8 - Triplex Italic
- Font 9 - Simplex Script
- Font 10 - Complex Script
- Font 11 - Simplex Greek
- Font 12 - Complex Greek
- Font 13 - Complex Cyrillic
- Font 14 - Gothic English
- Font 15 - Gothic German
- Font 16 - Gothic Italian
- Font 99 - Hebrew
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- Font 0 - Null font for faster redraw - no text.
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- DesignCAD Line Types
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- 0 - Solid: ───────────────────────────────────────────────
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- 1 - Dashed: ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ──
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- 2 - Hidden: ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─
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- 3 - Center: ──── ∙ ──── ∙ ──── ∙ ──── ∙ ──── ∙ ──── ∙ ────
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- 4 - Phantom: ──── ∙∙ ──── ∙∙ ──── ∙∙ ──── ∙∙ ──── ∙∙ ──── ∙∙
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- 5 - Dotted: ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙
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- 6 - Dashdot: ── ∙ ── ∙ ── ∙ ── ∙ ── ∙ ── ∙ ── ∙ ── ∙ ── ∙ ──
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- 7 - Border: ── ── ∙ ── ── ∙ ── ── ∙ ── ── ∙ ── ── ∙ ── ── ∙
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- 8 - Divide: ── ∙∙ ── ∙∙ ── ∙∙ ── ∙∙ ── ∙∙ ── ∙∙ ── ∙∙ ── ∙∙
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