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CTRL is your friend!

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A quick little tip for those who don't know:

 

When working with multiple layouts it can be quite tedious to right click > move or copy > create a copy...

if you use this method you'll be happy to know that holding CTRL (Control) on your current layout and dragging it left/right will create a copy for you quick and easy!

 

CTRL has many other applications;

For example when editing a block with multiple attributes, holding CTRL and double clicking will allow you to edit your attribute in place without the annoying pop-up screen!

 

 

Comments

Thanks @Brock_Olly such a simple thing to do and makes you tons more productive 

Great tips! Especially about the attributes. 

oh man, the ctrl double click is slick. I have a editing tool that works on text, mtext, dimensions, atts under one key-in "D", but for those without that, much better than DDATTE dialog!

Another control key trick for attributes - hold down CTRL and left click an attribute and you can adjust its properties independently of the rest of the block it's in. You can build a selection set of just attributes and move them around as a group. I do this in AutoCAD Electrical quite a bit because sometimes the attributes in the symbol get in the way of other things.

Making Multiple Copies With Grips using the Ctrl key remembers displacement for Move or Rotate.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACDLT/2025/ENU/?guid=GUID-BCD1FCDB-67A2-45B0-9679-063505733210

 

Ctrl+Home Start Page

Ctrl+Pg↑, +Pg↓ to switch layouts left/right ⇆Layouts same as tabs on a browser.

Ctrl+Shift+A Select Similar

Ctrl+C Copy with Base Pt

Ctrl+L Sel Previous or set highlighted Mtext to Lower Case

Ctrl+U to set highlighted Mtext to Upper Case

Ctrl+V Paste as Block

Ctrl+F2 Text Window▭

Ctrl+0 Clean screen

Ctrl+1 Properties

Ctrl+Shift+P QuickProp

Ctrl+2 Design Center

Ctrl+3 Tool Palettes

Ctrl+4 Sheet Set Manager

Ctrl+9 Command Line▭

Ctrl+H Toggle Groups Off/On

Ctrl+I Coords Off/On/Relative

Ctrl+R Cycle Viewports

Edits

Ctrl+C Copyclip

Ctrl+V Pasteclip

Ctrl+X Cutclip

Ctrl+Shift+C Copyclip with Base Pt / copybase

Ctrl+Shift+V Pasteclip as Block

Ctrl+Shift+X Cutclip with Base Pt / cutbase

 

 

These are all so awesome!

Shift+right-click selection list of osnap options (endpoint, etc)