Shortcuts

Most gCADPlus users aim to improve drafting efficiency over time. A number of one and two-letter keystrokes can be used as shortcuts and used to start various gCADPlus commands. The ControlClick technique as shown in the movie below can also help speed drafting.

Shortcuts
Draw commands

L – starts the LINE command

PL – starts the POLYLINE command

ML – starts the MULTILINE command

RECT – starts the RECTANGLE command

A – starts the ARC command

I – start the INSERT command

C – starts the CIRCLE command

EL – starts the ELLIPSE command

T – starts the TEXT command

MT – starts the MTEXT command

B – starts the BLOCK command

Modify commands

E – starts the ERASE command

CO – starts the COPY command

M – starts the MOVE command

RO – starts the ROTATE command

DI – starts the DIVIDE command

MP – starts the MATCHPROP command

AO – starts the ALIGN OBJECTS command

AT – starts the ALIGN TEXT command

FT – starts the FIND TEXT command

Miscellaneous

FS – starts a command to show file size (result shown in the command area)

ID – shows Cartesian coordinates of the location

IL – isolate a layer

Right-click menu items when an entity is selected

Right-click the menu when nothing selected

Other Control key option

UNDO – Control + Z

REDO – Control + Y

CUT – Control + X

COPY – Control + C

PASTE – – Control + V