Reference Guide
Reference Guide
Reference Guide

Special Key-ins

Special key-ins are, for the most part, utilities that cannot be categorized as drawing tools or view controls.

Design file coordinates

These key-ins are used to relocate the global origin and define true North.

To

Key-in

Relocate the global origin or assign coordinates to the global origin.

ACTIVE ORIGIN (GO=)

Define true North.

DEFINE NORTH

Menu activation

This key-in is used to activate menus.

To

Key-in

Activate a paper, cursor button, or sidebar menu.

ATTACH MENU (AM=)

Status bar and Key-in window usage

These key-ins are used to set how the Key-in Window key-ins are interpreted, to change the prompt, and to control the information that is displayed when you snap a tentative point.

To

Key-in

Toggle parsing of Key-in Window input.

SET PARSEALL

Change the Key-in Window prompt.

SET PROMPT

Control information that is displayed in the Key-in Window whenever you snap a tentative point.

SET TPMODE

Other

These key-ins are used to perform miscellaneous tasks.

To

Key-in

Open a command prompt and optionally execute a system command or batch file.

!

Enter a key-in that contains a configuration variable.

$ (EXPAND KEYIN)

Start another Windows application.

%

Exit and start another Windows application.

%%

Check the value of a configuration variable.

EXPAND ECHO

Set the value of a configuration value.

EXPAND SET

Deselect all controls.

NULL

Toggle automatic panning while digitizing.

SET AUTOPAN

Toggle the undo function.

SET UNDO

Reset the digitizing tablet.

TRESET

Display a window (such as a view window) in the second application window, if one is open.

WINDOW CHANGESCREEN