Keyboard Shortcut Keys (AutoCAD)

 AutoCAD Keyboard ShortCut Key

 The Keyboard shortcuts or hotkeys are the short, easy and quick way of activating some of the common AutoCAD operations or commands.
 In this list I've included some of the most frequently used and useful keyboard shortcuts

• Ctrl + N 

We use this shortcut to open a new drawing a tab in AutoCAD. 

•  Ctrl + S 

We use this keyboard shortcut to save a drawing file. 

• Ctrl + Shift + S 

We use this keyboard shortcut to save the drawing as a new file or in short this is shortcut
for “save as” command. 

• Ctrl + 0 

 Function of this command is to  Clears screen to show only the drawing area and hides palettes and tabs. Press it again to reset
default AutoCAD interface. 

• Ctrl + 1 

 This command Select and object and press Ctrl + 1 to open the properties palette which lists properties of the
object. We use this palette to modify most of the properties of the object too. We also
use PR command to open the property palette.

 Related: Increase productivity by modifying the properties in AutoCAD 

• Ctrl + 2 We  use it to open design center palette which contains many AutoCAD blocks that can be used directly in your drawing. 

• Ctrl + 9 We use this keyboard shortcut to toggle the visibility of command line. If for a few reason your instruction is hidden from the drawing space, then use this keyboard shortcut to bring it back.
• Ctrl + C  This command Select objects from the drawing area and press Ctrl + C to copy to objects to the clipboard.

•  Ctrl + V To paste the copied objects of the clipboard in the drawing keeping their original properties, We use this keyboard shortcut. 

• Ctrl + Shift + V 

To paste the copied/ derived objects as a block we can use  keyboard shortcut, the block thus
created can have a random set of characters as is name. We use  keyboard shortcut to
create blocks quickly without going through the produce block window. 

• Ctrl + Z By This keyboard shortcut can be used to undo last action in your drawing. We press this shortcut key multiple times to undo many actions.

•  Ctrl + Y By This keyboard shortcut can be used to redo the last undo action which you have performed. 

• Ctrl + Tab We use this keyboard shortcut to cycle through all open drawing tabs in AutoCAD.