From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
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Editing command aliases
From the course: AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training
Editing command aliases
Most commonly used commands have command aliases, or abbreviations you can use on the keyboard. For example, you can type rec instead of the full word rectangle to save time typing. In this video, you will edit a command alias, using the alias editor built into AutoCAD. Type, aliasedit. And press Enter. It opens up this dialog box, which is really a front end for editing this acad.pgp text file. One of my pet peeves with AutoCAD is that the standard command alias for the Copy command is CO. And I use the Copy command, it's probably the most frequently used command in AutoCAD. And I don't want to have to type in two letters. I just want to type C+Enter. And so I'm going to change that here and show you how to do it. CO is copy, and so I'm going to click edit, and change that to c. Okay, and when I do that, we have a warning because there is a duplicate. The alias C is already being used for the circle command. Do I want to redefine it? In this case, yes, because I copy things more than…
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