OUR CURRENT KEYBOARD MACRO:

The following is the keyboard macro we currently use in our office. We feel that Multi-Scale Plotting, 3D GotoViews and Clip Cubes are so important to our 2D drafting work that a great many of our keyboard shortcuts are dedicated to these functions.

Your own use of keyboard macros will undoubtedly be a personal and functional decision, so feel free to use these as a start. Some of them may seem to you like they are a waste of good keyboard shortcut keys, but if you do a lot of Multi-Scale Plots (and you should), and you keep your project and details orderly with 3D GotoViews, you should try them out for a while. You might be surprised how much time they save you.

You might also ask why I got rid of so many of the standard shortcuts like stretch, etc. Well that's because we have them in our icon bar across the top of the screen. We feel it's still faster than mousing through the standard menus, and that the time we save with our new keyboard shortcuts outweighs the time it takes to move the mouse to the icon bar.

We also don't use the Alt+N shortcut since the Windows version of DataCAD does not support it. That is because the Windows OS uses Alt+N to open a New file.

Here is what each shortcut does:
 

SHORTCUT	FUNCTION	NOTES
Alt+A	arrows menu	Start drawing arrows (red leader) on the current layer
Alt+B	scale	Goes to Plotter/Scale menu; select scale for use with Text Scale, etc.
Alt+C	clip cube menu	Goes to Clip Cube menu
Alt+D	mltlyout sheet	Goes to the MltLyout menu and displays the current MSP sheet
Alt+E	turn off layer by entity	Place cursor on entity which is on the layer you want to turn off. that layer will turn off.
Alt+F	perpendicular snap	Toggles perpendicular snapping ON/OFF
Alt+G	GotoView Menu	go to 3D GotoView Menu
Alt+H	selection sets	clears previous selection set 8, makes it active and prompts  you to mask by color
Alt+I	identify, set-all	place cursor on line to identify, then invoke the macro. matches  line type, spacing color & layer
Alt+J	delete associative hatch	make hatching non-associative by exploding via 3D Explode. Keeps all origins correct. Default=area.
Alt+K	group function	standard dcad shortcut, select entities to group together
Alt+L	line type menu	puts you in the dcad linetype menu
Alt+M	layout Multi-Scale-Plot	puts you in Multi-Scale-Plotting to lay out the current detail
Alt+N	Not used	Not used (because the Windows version can't use it)
Alt+O	explode dimensions	Explodes associative dimensions to non-associative. Default is by "area".
Alt+P	plotter menu	standard dcad shortcut, select plotter options
Alt+Q	save goto view 10	saves current view as Goto View #1 (we name it "Temp")
Alt+R	rotate	goes to the Rotate menu
Alt+S	stretch	goes to the Stretch menu
Alt+T	text menu	standard dcad shortcut, enter text string
Alt+U	unlock all layers	runs the UNLOCK macro and unlocks all layers, on or off
Alt+V	match line settings	Select entity to match all current line settings (use in conjunction  with ALT-I)
Alt+W	weld function	standard dcad shortcut, select lines to weld together
Alt+X	edit text by entity	place cursor on text entity to edit text contents
Alt+Y	create/name new layer	creates new layer and prompts you to name it
Alt+Z	save 3D GotoView	goes to 3D GotoView and prompts you to enter a name

NOTE: Italics denote a keyboard shortcut which requires cursor placement before invoking the macro.