| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| AUDIT | Will fix any errors within the .DWG, can fix the “one or more objects cannot be saved…” problem. |
| MAPCLEAN | Clean up the drawing/delete zero length objects/remove duplicates/etc. |
| OVERKILL | Remove duplicate objects. |
| PURGE | Purge objects/data from the drawing. |
| CLIPIT | Clip an image to a polyline. |
| COPYTOLAYER | Copy objects to another layer. |
| ACEATTACHDATA | Attach data to objects |
| MAPEXPORT | Export DSpec objects to .mif/.tab |
| TEXTMASK | Add background mask to text |
| LAYMRG | Merge AutoCAD layers |
| OSNAPZ | Set to 1 to ignore elevations when snapping to objects (default = 0) |
| DIVIDE | Divides selected object into evenly sized lengths |
| DYNMODE | Setting to 0 stops commands from appearing next to the cursor/crosshair |
| FLATTEN | Convert 3D to 2D objects (and ungroup multiple objects). |
| _MAPTRIM | Trim all objects within a selected (or defined) boundary. Unsure if this works for Feature Lines. |
| VISUALSTYLES | Open the Visual Styles Manager, where you can use the Highlight Intensity setting under Lighting, in your selected Visual Style to modify how bright the object viewer’s surface lighting is. |
| TRIMEXTENDMODE | Set to 0 when the Extend command is in quick mode (1). When in standard mode (0), you may select the boundaries first, then the object to extend. |
| MAPSTATUSBAR | Show or Hide the Map status bar (access to projection library) |
| MINIMUMDISTBETWEENSURFACES | Draws a 3D polyline along intersections of two surfaces |
| EDITFEATURECURVE | Allows you to delete a curve from feature lines. |
| POINT | Create a non-COGO point. Use this for ASPEC stuff. |
| INPUTSEARCHOPTIONS | Customise the auto-complete options for command suggestions. |
| INPUTSEARCHDELAY | Change the delay before command suggestions are shown. |
| RENAME | Rename blocks, or any named object. |
| ZC | Zoom Centre – Use to manually set coordinates of a viewport. |
| LINEWORKSHRINKWRAP | Draws a shrink-wrapped outline around any collections of contiguous linework entities. Note: 3D Faces (and probably other 3D objects) throws it off. |
| IMAGEQUALITY | Change the quality of Raster Images. Set to High to turn on Anti-Aliasing (smoothing, eg. When zoomed in), or Draft to turn AA off. |
| OOPS | Restore the last deleted element (even if other commands have been input since) |
| TEXTTOFRONT | Brings all text in front of all other objects in drawing. |
| HATCHTOBACK | Sets draw order of all hatches to behind all other objects. |
| NCOPY | Copy an element from an XREF into the current drawing. |
| TORIENT | Text Orient: Rotate text/MText/Block Attributes to a specified angle of rotation. |
Useful Commands
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