Commands may be issued by selecting a pulldown menu, screen menu, digitizer tablet item, or by typing a command at the command prompt. 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 Options 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 CAD commands. This allows you to execute the commonly used CAD 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.
For command entry at the Command: prompt, pressing Enter repeats
the last command. Also the prompt history records the sequence of
previous commands, and you can run these previous commands without
invoking the menu. To access the commands, use the keyboard up and
down arrows. The up arrow moves backwards in the history and the
down arrow moves forward. As you press the arrows, the previous
command names appear at the command prompt. When you get to the
command that you want to run again, press Enter.