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The shortcut menu - AutoCAD Architecture Tutorial
From the course: AutoCAD Architecture Essential Training
The shortcut menu
- [Instructor] We're staying in the Floor Plan.dwg file, and we're going to have a look now at another part of the interface that you might not know is there, that's the shortcut menu, or the right-hand mouse button context sensitive shortcut menu, as it is known in full. Now, the idea is, is that when you're working with your AutoCAD Architecture designs, you can select something like a line, like that, like the one we drew earlier, and I can then right click on the mouse. That brings up the shortcut menu. So, you'll notice now I can repeat the line command, I can repeat any recent input, I can isolate objects, I can edit it, I can go to the properties, I can select similar, I can add selected, I can convert it to a polyline, and so on. Now, you'll notice here I've got basic modify tools. So, you'll notice I can modify the line using basic tools. I can also delete the line if I want to. So, if I delete that now, it deletes it, and that's great, because it means I can go and select an…
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