Edit Command Aliases

Despite the increasing responsiveness of the ribbon and the new flexibility of multifunctional grips for polylines and hatches, the command line is still one of the fastest ways to enter commands. And it gets even faster if you add your preferred 2- or 3- (or more) letter command aliases to your PGP file.

I’ve posted about the editing the PGP before, but the command to launch it has moved. It’s now on the Manage tab, Customization panel, “Edit Aliases.”

Once the file opens, scroll all the way to the bottom for the user-defined section. If you add your aliases here, they’ll override any that occur earlier in the file. That way, you have all you custom shortcuts in one place, and there’s no need to modify any existing ones

Be sure to use the proper format for your shortcuts: <alias><comma> <spaces> <asterisk> <command>. The exact number of spaces doesn’t matter, but the rest of does.

After you save your changes and close the file, go back into AutoCAD LT and run REINIT.

Check the box, click OK, and your new command aliases will be ready to use.

Comments

[Murray Clack]

As a side tip: I have seen user where they have edited their PGP file, reinitialized it, but the new alias' do not take affect. I discovered that the user had TWO copies of the PGP file on their machine, and the current session of AutoCAD was using the copy.

To find out which PGP file AutoCAD is using, enter the following at the command prompt: (findfile "acag.pgp")

It will then list the path of the PGP file so you can find it.

[Kate Morrical]

Hi Murray,

Unfortunately, "findfile" is a LISP command and is not available to LT users. But Windows Search works just fine to find all the PGP files on a computer, and then you just need to make sure that the path to the one you want to use is in your Support Paths in Options.