AutoCAD 2004 Command Reference

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AutoCAD
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Command Reference
2004
February 2003
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Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Using AutoCAD Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using This Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Executing Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
References to Other Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Typographical Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3DARRAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3DCLIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Adjust Clipping Planes Window . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3DCONFIG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3DCORBIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3DDISTANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3DFACE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3DMESH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3DORBIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Cursor Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3DOrbit Shortcut Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3DORBITCTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3DPAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3DPOLY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3DSIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3D Studio File Import Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . 37
3DSOUT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3D Studio File Export Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . 40
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3DSWIVEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3DZOOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
ABOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
ACISIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
ACISOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ADCCLOSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
ADCENTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
DesignCenter Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Search Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
ADCNAVIGATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
ALIGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
AMECONVERT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
APERTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
APPLOAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Load/Unload Applications Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 58
Startup Suite Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
ARC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
AREA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
ARRAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Array Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ARRAY Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
ARX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
ASSIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Active Assistance Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 78
ATTACHURL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
ATTDEF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Attribute Definition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 80
ATTDEF Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
ATTDISP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
ATTEDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Edit Attributes Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
ATTEDIT Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
ATTEXT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Attribute Extraction Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 91
ATTEXT Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
ATTREDEF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
ATTSYNC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
AUDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
BACKGROUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Background Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Adjust Background Bitmap Placement Dialog Box . . . . . 100
BASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
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BATTMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Block Attribute Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Edit Attribute Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Settings Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
BHATCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Boundary Hatch and Fill Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 107
Hatch Pattern Palette Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . 116
BHATCH Command Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
BLIPMODE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
BLOCK. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Block Definition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
BLOCK Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
BLOCKICON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
BMPOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
BOUNDARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Boundary Creation Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 127
BOUNDARY Command Line. . . . . . . . . . . . 128
BOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
BREAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
BROWSER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
CAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Understanding Syntax of Expressions . . . . . . . . . 135
Formatting Feet and Inches . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Formatting Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Using Points and Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Using AutoLISP Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Using AutoCAD System Variables . . . . . . . . . . 139
Converting Units of Measurement . . . . . . . . . . 140
Using Standard Numeric Functions. . . . . . . . . . 140
Calculating a Vector from Two Points . . . . . . . . . 141
Calculating the Length of a Vector . . . . . . . . . . 143
Obtaining a Point by Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Obtaining the Last-Specified Point . . . . . . . . . . 143
Using AutoCAD Snap Modes in Arithmetic Expressions . . . 144
Converting Points between UCS and WCS . . . . . . . 145
Calculating a Point on a Line . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Rotating a Point About an Axis . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Obtaining an Intersection Point. . . . . . . . . . . 147
Calculating a Distance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Obtaining a Radius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Obtaining an Angle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Calculating a Normal Vector. . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Using Shortcut Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
CAMERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
CHAMFER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
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CHANGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
CHECKSTANDARDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Check Standards Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
CHPROP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164
CIRCLE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
CLOSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168
CLOSEALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
COLOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Select Color Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
COLOR Command Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
COMPILE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
CONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175
CONVERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178
CONVERTCTB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179
CONVERTPSTYLES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
COPY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182
COPYBASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
COPYCLIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183
COPYHIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184
COPYLINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
CUSTOMIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Customize Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
New Toolbar Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Button Editor Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
CUTCLIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195
CYLINDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
DBCCLOSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
DBCONNECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .201
dbConnect Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Data View Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Query Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Column Values Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Link Select Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Configure a Data Source Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . 225
Data View and Query Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . 225
Export Links Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Export Query Set Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Export Template Set Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Find Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Format Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Import Query Set Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Import Template Set Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Label Template Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Label Template Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 233
Link Conversion Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
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Link Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Link Template Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Link Template Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 239
New Label Template Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . 240
New Link Template Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 240
New Query Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Replace Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Select a Database Object Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 242
Select a Data Object Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Sort Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Synchronize Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
DBLCLKEDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
DBLIST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
DDEDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Edit Text Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Edit Attribute Definition Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 248
DDPTYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Point Style Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
DDVPOINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Viewpoint Presets Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 250
DELAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
DETACHURL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
DIM and DIM1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
DIMALIGNED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
DIMANGULAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
DIMBASELINE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
DIMCENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
DIMCONTINUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
DIMDIAMETER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
DIMDISASSOCIATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
DIMEDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
DIMLINEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
DIMORDINATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
DIMOVERRIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
DIMRADIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
DIMREASSOCIATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
DIMREGEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
DIMSTYLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Dimension Style Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Create New Dimension Style Dialog Box . . . . . . . . 288
New, Modify, and Override Dimension Style Dialog Boxes . . 288
Compare Dimension Styles Dialog Box . . . . . . . . 308
DIMSTYLE Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
DIMTEDIT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
DIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
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DIVIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .314
DONUT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
DRAGMODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316
DRAWORDER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317
DSETTINGS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318
Drafting Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
DSVIEWER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328
Aerial View Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
DVIEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .331
DWGPROPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .342
Drawing Properties Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 342
DXBIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .347
EATTEDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .349
Enhanced Attribute Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
EATTEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .351
Attribute Extraction Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
EDGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .355
EDGESURF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .357
ELEV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .358
ELLIPSE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .359
Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
ERASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .362
ETRANSMIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .363
Create Transmittal Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Password Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
EXPLODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .368
EXPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370
EXTEND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .371
EXTRUDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .374
FILL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377
FILLET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377
FILTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .382
Object Selection Filters Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . 383
FIND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .386
Find and Replace Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
Find and Replace Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 389
FOG. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .389
Fog/Depth Cue Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
GOTOURL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
GRAPHSCR. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
GRID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .393
GROUP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .394
Object Grouping Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Order Group Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
GROUP Command Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
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HATCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
HATCHEDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
Hatch Edit Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
HATCHEDIT Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . 410
HELP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
HIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
HLSETTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
Hidden Line Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . 414
HYPERLINK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Insert Hyperlink Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 416
Edit Hyperlink Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 419
Select Place in Document Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 419
HYPERLINK Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . 420
HYPERLINKOPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
IMAGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 423
Image Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 424
IMAGE Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 427
IMAGEADJUST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
Image Adjust Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
IMAGEADJUST Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . 432
IMAGEATTACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Image Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
IMAGECLIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436
IMAGEFRAME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438
IMAGEQUALITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439
IMPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
INSERT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440
Insert Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441
INSERT Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 442
INSERTOBJ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
Insert Object Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
INTERFERE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450
INTERSECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
ISOPLANE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
JPGOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
JUSTIFYTEXT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
LAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Layer Properties Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
Named Layer Filters Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Save Layer States Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
Layer States Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
Select Linetype Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
Lineweight Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 468
LAYER Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
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LAYERP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .475
LAYERPMODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .475
LAYOUT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .475
LAYOUTWIZARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .477
Layout Wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
LAYTRANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .478
Layer Translator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 478
Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
Edit/New Layer Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
LEADER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .482
LENGTHEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .486
LIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .489
Lights Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 489
New or Modify Point Light Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 492
New or Modify Distant Light Dialog Box . . . . . . . . 494
New or Modify Spotlight Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . 496
North Location Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . 498
Shadow Options Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 499
Sun Angle Calculator Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 500
Geographic Location Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 501
LIMITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .502
LINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .504
LINETYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .506
Linetype Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
Load or Reload Linetypes Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . 509
LINETYPE Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 510
LIST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .513
LOAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .514
LOGFILEOFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .514
LOGFILEON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .515
LSEDIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .515
Landscape Edit Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
LSLIB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .517
Landscape Library Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . 517
Landscape Library Edit Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . 518
LSNEW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .520
Landscape New Dialog Box. . . . . . . . . . . . . 520
LTSCALE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .522
LWEIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .523
Lineweight Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . 523
LWEIGHT Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525
MASSPROP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .527
MATCHPROP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .531
Property Settings Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . 531
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