Commands may be issued by selecting a pulldown menu, screen menu, digitizer tablet item, or by typing a command at the AutoCAD command prompt. Pressing Enter at the command prompt repeats that last command. Pulldown menus have a row of header names across the top of the screen. Selecting one of these header names displays the possible commands under that name. Screen menu items are shown in the screen menu (typically on the right side of the screen). The screen menu can be toggled off and on inside of the AutoCAD Preferences dialog. The Pulldown menus are the primary method for Carlson command selection. Each section of this manual shows the pulldown menu which contains the commands that are explained in that section. Pulldown menus are sometimes also referred to as dropdown menus.
Command availability depends on which menu is loaded. Carlson menus have a mixture of both Carlson and AutoCAD commands. This allows you to execute the commonly used AutoCAD commands from the menus while running Carlson.
Quick Keys are user-defined short cut names that can be typed in to start commands. To review the current set of Quick Keys, run the Quick Keys command in the Settings pulldown menu. Quick Keys are explained in more detail in the next section.