in this video you will learn how to assign keyboard shortcuts to macros
system variables and literally any command as you may know this is not
possible in AutoCAD without having programming
knowledge however I found a simple way to achieve this we won’t use command
aliases due to its limitations without further say let's start
in this example I'll assign a keyboard shortcut to a macro I'll use the quick
revision cloud what it does is it creates a quick revision cloud with simply two
clicks we're going to use the action recorder to do this you can find it on
the manage tab or you can type a actrecord and then you will use your macro
as you normally do when we hit stop or when we type actstop to stop our
action recorder you can choose the name or the keyboard shortcut to your macro
now we have to tweak it a little bit so it can work on every situation and not
only on this drawing because if we just use it without any modification to the
action recorder it's gonna create our quick revision cloud in the same
location as we create our action recorder so what we're gonna do is we're
gonna click where it says insertion point and we're gonna do pause for user
input the same thing in here
now we're gonna test our new keyboard shortcut for our macro RC and boom how
neat is that!
so you assigned your first keyboard shortcut to your macro now second
example we're going to use our make unique block macro as you can see these
doors are the same I'll do the same process record or a city record and I'll
use my macro as I normally use it
when I hit stop I will sign the keyboard shortcut that I want for this specific
macro
now I'll have to tweak it a little bit so it can work for any block and not
just for this one so again pause for input so it can work with these or the
other block and here we see that we have two flatten and we don't need this so we
will remove it and we're going to test our keyword shortcut
and boom we're gonna edit this block just to see that our keyboard shortcut really
worked
Boom
so it actually did, again you can find the make unique block macro in my other
tutorials in this third example I'll sign a keyboard shortcut to a system
variable I hate to type image frame all the time cause it's so long so again
I'll record it
and then I'll assign my keyboard shortcut IF, simple
so now if I type I F oops you saw that nothing happened, why?
because we forgot to tweak it a little bit so here I will pause for input again
and now we use If 0 to turn off the image frame
or one to turn it on how neat is that as you can see you can assign any keyboard
shortcuts to any of your favorite tools macros and any command the last example
is wipeout frame which I assign it the shortcut W F so wipeout frame on and
wipeout frame off how neat is that for more tricks subscribe comment and share
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