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| Command | Description |
| (AH) | Snaps to a point halfway between two selected points. |
| 0 | TILEMODE 0 and sets ltscale to 1 if psltscale = 1. |
| 1 | TILEMODE 1 and resets ltscale if psltscale = 1. |
| 10 | Sets up variables for associative dimensioning. 0.10 inch size. |
| 12 | Sets up variables for associative dimensioning. 0.12 inch size |
| 2L | Edits 2 elevations at a time with 1 input such as TC&G or FF&PAD when given only G or PAD. |
| 2X | ZOOM .2X |
| 5X | ZOOM .5X |
| 9X | ZOOM .9X |
| A | Arc |
| AA | Active angle. Sets snapangle. |
| AAR | Draws a curved leader as one entity. |
| ADD | Adds a text string to the end of another text string. |
| ADL | Adds (sums) all the lengths of selected arcs or lines. |
| ADT | Attdia toggle. |
| AEE | Area of entity. |
| AET | Area of entity. Adds text to drawing. |
| AL | Lists radius, length, delta, and tangent of an arc or pline. Lists length of a circle or line. |
| AP | Aperture |
| AR | Array. |
| AS | Autoset. Sets current layer picking. |
| AT | Arc text. |
| ATT2TXT | Converts a single attribute to text and copies it to a new location. Leaves the original attribute intact. Alias A2T. |
| B | Break. |
| BDL | Labels a line with bearing and distance. |
| BDP | Labels the bearing and distance between two picked points. |
| BERM | Draws a berm (crow's foot) symbol. Requires BERM.DWG. |
| BF | Break First. |
| BL | Block. |
| BL0 | Block to layer 0. Redefines a selected block putting all its sub-entities on layer 0. |
| BM | Brkmatch. Breaks a line, filling the gap to match another entity. |
| BOXL | Box bubble note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| BRK | Breaks two objects where they intersect. |
| BW | Backwards. Draws a leader from a bubble note to an additional point. |
| BX | Draws a pline box given two corners; prompts for rotation. |
| C | Circle. |
| CA | Copy Attributes. Copies all the attribute values from a block insertion into other insertions with the same attributes. |
| C2 | Circle by two points. |
| CD | Curve data. Lists rad, len, del, and tan of an arc or pline. List length of a circle or line. |
| CET | Cmdecho toggle. |
| CF | Chamfer. |
| CH | Change. |
| CHATTRIB | Changes Value/Position/Angle/Style/Layer/Color of currently visible attributes globally. |
| CHCOORD | Changes any coordinate of a selection set to a uniform value. |
| CHDIM | Changes text inside dimensions globally or updates dimensions with given text. |
| CHGCASE | Changes selected text to upper or lower case. |
| CHM | Changes objects' layer to match another object. |
| CHNUM | Renumber existing text sequentially. |
| CHT | Changes text HEIGHT/JUST./LOC./ROT./OBL./STYLE/TEXT/WIDTH |
| CIRL | Cir bubble note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| CL | Changes objects to current layer by picking. |
| CLEAN | Cleans (super-purges) drawing using wblock command. Exits drawing. |
| CMD | Cmddia toggle. |
| CMPRO | Change Match Professional. Changes any property of a selection set to match another object. For power users. |
| CMT | Change Match Text. Changes text style, layer, color, height, and slant to match another by picking. |
| CONTVOL | Calculates contour volume from selected closed polylines. Adds volume text to drawing. |
| CONTXT | Contour Text label. Adds middle justified text on contour layer. |
| CR | Copy Rotate. Rotate, leaving a copy in original position. |
| CS | Copy String. Changes text string to match another by picking. |
| CT | Circle by tangent, tangent, and radius. |
| CU | Copy Up. Copies an object straight up or down. Acts like offset for profile lines. |
| CURVE | Draws an arc with a requested length. |
| CW | Change Width. Pedit width change for a group. |
| CX | Copy. |
| D1 | Toggles suppressing dimension extension 1. |
| D2 | Toggles suppressing dimension extension 2. |
| DA | Dimension Aligned. |
| DANG | Dimension Angular. |
| DC | Dimension Center. |
| DEL | Deletes a file. |
| DH | Dimension Horizontal. |
| DI | Distance. |
| DIA | Toggles cmddia, filedia, attdia. |
| DIAL | Dia bubble note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| DIR | Displays current directory. |
| DL | Dimension Leader. |
| DM | Draws a street or utility dimensions with additional same line or multiline text. |
| DOT | Draws an associative leader with dot end. |
| DP | Dimpost. Dimension post string. (eg. ' or FT) |
| DSC | Dimscale. |
| DT | Dtext. Dynamic text. |
| DU | Dimension update. |
| DV | Dview. |
| DW | Draws a straight or curved MAG 250 driveway entrance. |
| E | Erase |
| EDCHELP | Starts Haws EDC help. |
| EDCMENU | Loads the Haws EDC menu. |
| EDIT | Invokes the operating system EDIT command. |
| EE | Edits multiple sequential attributes, attdefs, dimensions, or text with a dialogue box. |
| EG | Entget. Gets entity information list in DXF format. |
| EGN | Entget nested. Gets nested entity information list in DXF format. |
| ELL | Ellipse. |
| ELLABEL | Labels profile or xsec point elevations by picking. |
| ELLL | Ell bubble note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| ELV | Adds elevations along the side of a profile grid. |
| EOP | End of pipe. Draws the cut (broken) end of a pipe. |
| EX | Explode mirrored blocks as well as the usual explodable entities. |
| EXP | Autocad explode. |
| F | Fillet. |
| FDT | Filedia toggle. |
| FF | Freezes layers by selection set. |
| FFA | Findfile ACAD. Reports where AutoCAD is finding a file. |
| FFI | Freeze isolate. Freezes all but selected layers. |
| GOTO | Finds selected objects by panning and zooming to bring selected objects one at a time to the center of the screen. |
| FFX | Freezes xref layers (or layers of other nested objects) by picking. |
| FUNKY | Loads the F-key function key osnaps. By default, the osnaps are as shown in the FUNK1.DWG and FUNKY2.DWG template drawings. |
| GRB | Inserts a grade break symbol at the end of a line on a profile. Needs GRB.DWG. |
| GRC | Inserts a grade change symbol at the end of a line on a profile. Needs GRC.DWG. |
| GRD | Calculates a slope or elevation. |
| GS | Sets grip size. |
| H | Bhatch. |
| HEXL | Hex bubble note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| HT | Dimension Hometext. |
| -I | Insert (command line version). |
| I | Insert with dialogue box. |
| IB | Insbase. |
| IL | Isoplane left. |
| IMP_EXP | Imports/Exports ASCII files with options not in ASCTEXT. |
| INCATT | Increments numbers in specified attributes of selected block insertions based on any attribute. Leaves the precision of each number as is. |
| INCNUM | Increments numbers within selected text strings. Leaves the precision of each number as is. |
| IO | Isoplane off. |
| IR | Isoplane right. |
| ISTAN | Is it tangent? Reports the gap and angular difference between two selected ends. |
| IT | Isoplane top. |
| L | Line. |
| L0 | Layer set 0. |
| L100 | L100 (0.100 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| L120 | L120 (0.120 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| L140 | L140 (0.140 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| L175 | L175 (0.175 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| L200 | L200 (0.200 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| L240 | L240 (0.240 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| L290 | L290 (0.290 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| L350 | L350 (0.350 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| L500 | L500 (0.500 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| L80 | L80 (0.080 * dimscale) size quick dtext. |
| -LA | Layer (command line version). |
| LA | Layer with dialogue box. |
| LAPRN | Prints layer settings list to file (dwgname.txt). |
| LAR | Restore layer settings from a file. (Frozen, Off, Color, Linetype, Current viewport frozen) |
| LAS | Saves layer settings to a file. (Frozen, Off, Color, Linetype, Current viewport frozen) |
| LA | Layer box. Layer with dialogue box. |
| LBDIM | Adds a specified label to selected dimensions |
| LCP | Layer colors by picking. |
| LCPX | Nested (xref) layer colors by picking. |
| LE | Changes the length of a line. |
| LETTER | Adds consecutive letter text to drawing. |
| LI | List. |
| LK | Locks layers by picking. |
| LK0 | Locks layer 0. |
| LKA | Locks all layers. |
| LKI | Locks isolate. Locks all but selected layers. |
| LLT | Loads all linetypes from ACAD.LIN. |
| LM | Makes a layer with few prompts. |
| LOOP | Draws an associative leader with loop (lasso) end. |
| LOTEL | Spot elevation ellipse. Needs LOTEL.DWG. |
| LOTNUM | Enhanced version of NUM. Centers text between two lot lines. |
| LST | Lists the station and elevation of a profile point. Needs reference point set up by PRO. |
| LTB | Changes all entities on a layer to bylayer linetype. Restores changes done by LTC. |
| LTC | Changes all entities on a layer to continuous linetype. Speeds profile grid regens. |
| LTH | Changes linetype to hidden by picking. |
| LTS | Ltscale. |
| LX | Nested list. Drills to the nesting bottom of an entity and lists all mother entities and layers. |
| M | Move. |
| M40 | Draws a 1998 revision City of Mesa M-40 driveway with two picks. |
| M42 | Draws a 1999 revision City of Mesa M-42 driveway with two picks. |
| MC2033 | Draws a MCDOT 2033 driveway entrance with two picks. |
| MD | Lists cumulative distance between repeated picks. |
| MF | Multiple concentric fillet with automatic radius change. Useful for contours and curb returns. |
| MM | Mirror. |
| MN | Menu. No dialogue box. Makes it easy to type MN ACAD. |
| MODESTAT | Changes the status bar to display long layernames and the current drawing name. |
| MOF | Multiple offset. Offsets with one pick to multiple distances and layers. Good for streets. |
| MP | Move Previous. |
| MREN | Multiple rename. Works like Autocad rename using wilcards. |
| MS | Mspace. |
| MSCR | Multiple Script processor. Runs a script file on multiple drawings. |
| MV | Creates a paper space viewport on defpoints layer. |
| MVHP | Creates and zooms HP plotter sized paper space viewport. Current UCS 0,0 must be at sheet corner. |
| NA | New angle. For each entity in a selection set, aligns to match a single selected entity or angle or rotates a selected angle. |
| NE | Northing and easting coordinates on a leader. |
| NEWPRO | Draws a new profile from a data file named [dwgname].pro. |
| NONE | Draws an associative leader with no arrow (straight line) end. |
| NEWSCALE | Scales each object in a selection set to a new uniform scale based on a specified measurement of its current scale. |
| NOTES | Manages bubble notes and quantites automatically. See NOTES.TXT. |
| NS | Note snap. Sets snap angle to 0, 30, 45, or 60 for drawing leaders. |
| NUM | Adds consecutive number text to drawing. |
| O | Offset. |
| OCTL | Octagon bubble note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| OFF | Turns off layers by selection set. |
| OFFX | Turns off xref layers (or layers of other nested objects) by picking. |
| OFI | Off isolate. Turns off all but selected layers. |
| ONA | On all. Turns all layers on. |
| OO | Offset to current layer. Same as offsetx. |
| OS | Ddosnap. |
| OSE | Sets running osnap to endpoint. |
| OSI | Sets running osnap to intersection. |
| OSM | Sets running osnap to midpoint. |
| OSN | Sets running osnap to none. |
| P | Pan. |
| P0 | Sets polyline width to 0. |
| PAD | Inserts pad and ff block on PAD layer. |
| PALL | Purges all without confirmation. |
| PB | Sets entity pickbox size. |
| PC | Draws a profile catch basin with two picks. |
| PE | Pedit. |
| PENL | Pentagon bubble note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| PG | Polygon. |
| PIPE | Draws a pipe with inside and outside walls. |
| PL | Polyline. |
| PLDR | Adds a profile label leader with pre-worded text. |
| PLT | Quick plot without dialogue box. Plots display. |
| PM | Draws a profile manhole with two picks. |
| POLARSET | Sets up polar tracking at 30 degree increments. Sets the NODE osnap (to accommodate an AutoCAD 2000 bug) if no other running osnap is set. |
| PRED | Edits the PRO data file that matches the current drawing name. |
| PRESUF | Adds a prefix or suffix to selected text. Powerful with CHT. |
| PRO | Plots a complete profile by entering station, elevation, etc. from the keyboard or a data file. |
| PROE | Draws a profile pipe ellipse with ID and OD. |
| PROFC | Converts an old format PRO data file version. |
| PROPIPE | Profile pipe. Draws ID and OD by picking invert points and entering ID and wall thickness. |
| PROSUP | Draws a pipe support in profile between a pipe ellipse and a pipe profile. |
| PROTO | Inserts PROTO drawing with standard layers and linetypes. |
| PROTOX | Inserts PROTOX drawing with standard layers and linetypes. |
| PS | Pspace. |
| PSLT | Psltscale toggle. |
| QS | Qsave. |
| QT | Qtext mode toggle. |
| R | Redraw. |
| RD | Redo. |
| RECL | Rectangle bubble note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| RES | Viewres. |
| RESCALE | Rescale selected blocks or other entities about their base points. |
| REV | Inserts revision delta to drawing at dimscale and dim text size. |
| RG | Regenall. |
| RGA | Reganauto toggle. |
| ROMANS | Sets style to Roman Simplex. Changes all LEROYish styles to ROMANS font. |
| ROUND | Rounds selected text strings to the specified precision. |
| RR | Rotate. |
| RRR | Rotates from a reference point. Good as an everyday substitute for ROTATE. |
| RUN | Loads or reloads and runs a LISP routine by typing RUN and routine name. |
| R1 | Rotate 180. |
| R2 | Rotate 270. |
| R4 | Rotate 450. |
| R9 | Rotate 90. |
| S | Stretch crossing. |
| SC | Scale. |
| SELSTYLE | Sets current text style by picking. |
| SET | Displays current operating system environment variables. |
| SETDIM10 | Sets up variables for associative dimensioning. 0.10 inch size. |
| SETDIM12 | Sets up variables for associative dimensioning. 0.12 inch size |
| SETUP | Sets all dimension variables for a certain scale and text height. |
| SH | Shells to operating system command prompt. |
| SHEET | Sets up P&P sheets easily. Attaches xrefs and takes care of scaling and rotation. |
| SLL | Inserts straight leader leftward with text on STAOFF layer. Requires SL.DWG. |
| SLOPE | Inserts a slope arrow with text on slope layer. |
| SLR | Inserts straight leader rightward with text on STAOFF layer. Requires SR.DWG. |
| SN | Snap. |
| SPOTEL | Inserts grading plan spot elevation block on SPOTEL layer. |
| SSX | Creates a global selection set of specific layers, blocks, etc. for use in another command. |
| SSXPRO | Like SSX command line selection set creator, but more powerful and complicated. For power users. |
| STACL | Adds numbered station ticks on an old style (not lightweight) pline. |
| STALABEL | Adds stations along the bottom of a profile grid. |
| SWAP | Swaps the location of two selection sets. |
| T | Trim. |
| TAP | Draws a perpendicular sewer tap using current chamfer distances. |
| TAPINV | Calculates the invert at the end of a perpendicular sewer tap by picking. |
| TC | Inserts a profile text block. Needs P-TCG-TX.DWG. |
| TCG | Inserts grading plan street elevations on a leader. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| TCL | Inserts angled grading plan street elevations leftward. Requires TCL.DWG. |
| TCR | Inserts angled grading plan street elevations rightward. Requires TCR.DWG. |
| TE | Dimension tedit. |
| TH | Changes text size for a selection set. (Quickie version of CHT.) |
| THA | Thaws all layers. |
| TILDE | Draws an associative leader with tilde end. |
| TO | Text overline. Adds overline to a selection set of text or to an attribute. |
| TRIL | Triangle bubble note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| TU | Text underline. Adds underline to a selection set of text or to an attribute. |
| TW | Twist. Dview twist with prompt for angle to make horizontal. |
| TXTL | Text note on NOTES layer. Requires 3 blocks. They are provided in the HawsEDC folder. They can be modified for custom appearance. Modified blocks should be saved in another folder. |
| TXTSUM | Adds numeric values from selected text strings. |
| TY | Linetype. |
| TYPE | Types a text file to the screen. |
| U0 | Sets units to 0 decimal places. |
| U1 | Sets units to 1 decimal place. |
| U2 | Sets units to 2 decimal places. |
| U3 | Sets units to 3 decimal places. |
| U8 | Sets units to 8 decimal places. |
| UB | Undo back. |
| UF | Ucsfollow toggle. |
| UFF | Undo layer freeze. Thaw layers frozen by previous picking. |
| UFFX | Undo nested (xref) layer freeze. Thaw layers frozen by previous picking. |
| UL | Layer unlock by picking. |
| ULA | Layer unlock *. |
| UM | Undo mark. |
| UOFF | Undo layer off. Turns on layers turned off by picking. |
| UOFFX | Undo nested (xref) layer off. Turns on layers turned off by picking. |
| US | Sets units to surveyor angles (nearest second) and 2 decimal places. |
| USER | Reloads USER.LSP (after making changes). |
| UT | Draws a utility line of a specified type and size. Includes Wat/Sew/SD/Irr/Elec/Tel/Catv. |
| UU | Ddunits. |
| V | View with dialogue box. |
| -W | Wblock without dialogue box.. |
| W | Wblock with dialogue box. |
| WALL | Draws a wall of a specified width on the right layer. |
| WL | What layer. Gets layer name, color, linetype, and status info by picking an entity. |
| WS | Draws a water service with two picks. |
| X | Extend. |
| X2 | Zoom 2X |
| XD | Xref detach by picking. |
| XDA | Xref detach all (*). |
| XR | Xref without dialogue box. |
| XRO | Offsets an object nested in an Xref or other block. XROFFSET also invokes this command. |
| XX | Toggle dimtix. Toggle forcing dimension text inside extension lines. |
| XY | X and Y coordinates on a leader. |
| Z | Zoom. |
| Z0 | Zoom zero. Zoom window from 0,0 to 36,24. |
| ZA | Zoom All. |
| ZD | Zoom dynamic. |
| ZE | Zoom extents. |
| ZI | Zoom in. Zoom 1.5X. |
| ZO | Zoom out. Zoom 0.5X. |
| ZV | Zoom viewmax. Zoom out as far as possible without a regen. |
| ZW | Zoom window. |
| ZZ | Zoom previous |
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