Vault Keyboard Shortcuts

For those of you who like their Keyboard Shortcuts, you can use hotkeys to quickly access Vault commands too.

Vault Client

Paste		Ctrl+V
Open		Ctrl+O
Print		Ctrl+P
Cut		Ctrl+X
Copy		Ctrl+C
Paste as link		Ctrl+Alt+V
Select All		Ctrl+A
Delete		Ctrl+D
Edit Properties…		Ctrl+E
Move to Folder…		Ctrl+Shift+V
Refresh		F5
Find		Ctrl+F
Manage Ownership…		Ctrl+M
Update		Ctrl+U
Change Item Number		Ctrl+H
Check In…		Ctrl+I
Check Out…		Ctrl+O
Go to Working Folder		Ctrl+W
Help		F1
Back		Ctrl+Left
Forward		Ctrl+right

Make Your Mouse Work Harder

We recently had a support query from one of our customers, with regard to setting the extra buttons on their new shiny Microsoft mouse to operate AutoCAD functions, helping to speed things up.

We thought this was a useful workflow, which others may not have found yet, so thought we would share the details as below:

• This has only been tested with a Microsoft mouse, but suspect other manufacturers (i.e. Logitech) will have a similar system.
• Firstly, connect your mouse and download/install the Microsoft Intellipoint software for your device, see the Microsoft website here.
• Once installed go to Control Panel > Mouse, this should give you the Mouse Properties dialogue as below.



Quick F Reminder

I am sure most people will be aware of AutoCAD F (Function) Keys, but we thought a quick reminder would be useful for newer users, or those who didn't realise.

So, by default the following F Keys will give you the relevant result:

• F1 - Shows help
• F2 - Shows the text window (History of used commnads)
• F3 - OSNAP on/off
• F4 - 3DOSNAP on/off
• F5 - Cycles isometric planes
• F6 - Dynamic UCS on/off
• F7 - Grid on/off
• F8 - Ortho on/off
• F9 - Snap on/off 
• F10 - Polar on/off
• F11 - Object Snap Tracking on/off 
• F12 - Dynamic input on/off