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Ammar, I agree that configuring your own Aliases h...

2009-05-23T09:02:40.001+02:00

Ammar,
I agree that configuring your own Aliases has a draw back when you go and use someone elses computer, but you can always save your acad.pgp and send it to your email account so if you need to work on another machine you can just configure it with your personalised commands

All what you talked about is good, keyboard comman...

2009-05-22T15:17:55.221+02:00

All what you talked about is good, keyboard commands fasten work, but the point is when you use another PC whose AutoCAD's commands are still original.
for example I use "c" for copy, and "ci" for circle in my PC, but if I use another AutoCAD in another PC, I forget to deal by the original commands (c and co).

Bill, I was trying the Screen Menu, but I just get...

2009-05-08T04:10:34.936+02:00

Bill,
I was trying the Screen Menu, but I just get a box on the right side of the screen with nothing in it, and when I use several commands nothing appears in it.
Note that I am using AutoCAD architecture 2009. Can you tell me what is it that you use thisScreen Menu for?
THanks for the comment anyways.

If you want REAL speed from a menu system, try tur...

2009-05-08T02:19:40.359+02:00

If you want REAL speed from a menu system, try turning on th eold DOS screen menu (Options -> Display -> Screen emnu).

This uses no icons, and is totally context-sensitive. It automatically shifts to show the options for a command no matte rhopw the command was started, and therefore does not require the usual right-click to get th econtext menu for a command.