*I  General Help i  Action   Files   ACAD ]  Extra £  Utility    OS Shell Á  Configure ô Directory ) Editing Keys  Numeric Fields  Shell Mode * Execution Mode 4  Database ®  Database ÿÿÿÿ Help definition for lc.c H_GENERAL 1 H_ACTION 2 H_FILES 3 H_ACAD 4 H_EXTRA 5 H_UTILITY 6 H_OS 7 H_CONFIG 8 H_DIR 9 H_EDITKEYS 10 H_NUMERIC 11 H_SHELL 12 H_EXEC 13 H_DATABASE 14 *B 1,General Help LaunchCAD the Drawing Manager Valid movement/selection keys in pulldown menus are: Arrow Keys - movement of selection bar [Enter] - selects menu item under bar [Esc] - backup 1 menu or exits from top menu. AltX Immediately exit program Press [Esc] to exit help. *P Move the cursor and press return OR type a command letter to pull down a submenu OR select using the mouse cursor and left mouse button. Also See: ^Action^ ^Files^ ^Directory^ ^ACAD^ ^Extra^ ^Utility^ ^OS Shell^ ^Configure^ ^Editing Keys^ ^Numeric Fields^ Press [Esc] to exit help. *E *B 2,Action acTion Select which AutoCAD Main Menu option to execute. The default is item 2 - Edit an existing drawing. These selections correspond to the AutoCAD opening menu selections. Also See: ^General Help^ *E *B 3,Files Files Select a path and drawing file for AutoCAD to use. You may pick an existing file from a list with the cursor keys, or enter a new filename. LaunchCAD will add the .DWG file extention to the name that you enter. Also See: ^General Help^ ^Directory^ *E *B 4,ACAD ACAD Two files are modified that AutoCAD will use at startup. The first is the batch file that ran this program (if you selected BATCH mode, the second is a script file which AutoCAD will use to execute menu commands. Also See: ^General Help^ *E *B 5,Extra Extra Select a prototype drawing (on another drive and directory if necessary), or enter an initial command for AutoCAD to execute once your drawing has been loaded. Also See: ^General Help^ *E *B 6,Utility Utility This Menu allows you to delete backup files from the current directory, or run other commonly used AutoCAD utilities. These utilities must be in the current directory or in a path DOS can find. Also See: ^General Help^ *E *B 7,OS Shell DOS You may temporarily exit to DOS or optionally specify a DOS command to perform (similar to the AutoCAD SH or SHELL commands). Temporarily exit to the operating system or execute a single command. Also See: ^General Help^ *E *B 8,Configure Configure LaunchCAD Enter the external programs that you wish to use to list or edit text files and to view AutoCAD slides. Also you may specify the directory from which AutoCAD will be executed. If this field is left blank LaunchCAD will execute AutoCAD from the drawing directory. You may select the filename that you wish to use to start LaunchCAD in batch mode. Select execution mode: batch or memory resident, background fill character, and mouse speed Also See: ^General Help^ *E *B 9,Directory Directory Letter key - find name with same first letter Up/Down - move up/down Tab/Lt/Rt - move to dir/file window PgUp/PgDn - move up/down a page Home/End - move to top/bottom file name Alt-D - select disk drive Escape - Exit - no file selected Enter - Select file, or, if a directory is selected the new directory will be displayed. Also See: ^General Help^ *E *B 10,Editing Keys Cursor Movement --------------- Arrow keys - cursor movement Ctrl-LeftArrow - word left Ctrl-RightArrow - word right Home - beginning of field End - end of line/field Ctrl-Home - beginning of first field Ctrl-End - end of last field Tab - next field Shift-Tab - previous field *P Inserting and Deleting ---------------------- Ins - toggle insert mode Del - delete character at cursor BackSpace - delete character left Ctrl-BackSpace - delete word left Ctrl-T - delete word right Ctrl-U - delete to end of field Ctrl-Y - delete to end of form *P Other Editing Keys ------------------ Enter - process current field Ctrl-Enter - process all fields Ctrl-R - restore field Esc - abort data entry Also see: ^Numeric Fields^ ^General Help^ *E *B 11,Numeric Fields Numeric Fields -------------- Editing numeric fields is different than normal text fields. Digits before the decimal point are right justified and space filled. Digits after the decimal point are left justified and zero filled. Pressing [Enter] will process the whole numeric field and pressing the decimal point will process only the digits before the decimal point. Also see: ^Editing Keys^ *E *B 12,Shell Mode Select a Shell Mode end - save current drawing and select new file wend - save current drawing and select new file quit - quit current drawing and select new file lisp - load and execute an AutoLISP program. insert - insert a drawing file as a block. dxfin - load a DXF file. dxbin - load a DXB file. vslide - view an AutoCAD SLD file. menu - load an AutoCAD menu file. ESC / AltX - return to AutoCAD Also See: ^General Help^ *E *B 13,Execution Mode Select the execution mode for LaunchCAD: Batch - AutoCAD will be started from a batch file, this file is modified by LaunchCAD during run time. This mode works best if you don not have EMS memory. Chain - LaunchCAD will execute AutoCAD as a child process. A batch file is not required. Also See: ^General Help^ *E *B 14,Database Database Help... Also See: ^General Help^ *E