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AUTOCAD DISABLE F1 KEY TIP

FOUND THIS AT THE AUGI FORUM, GREAT STUFF, THANKS TO MIKE PERRY FOR POSTING THIS ON THE FORUM
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Help reassigning that pesky F1 key

I know there are many people who don’t want F1 to be help in AutoCAD. Courtesy of Lynn Allen, here is how to reassign your F1 key to be cancel, so it will act the same way as your escape key.

First execute your CUI command. In the upper left panel, scroll through and find keyboard shortcuts. Click on the plus sign to expand it. You should see shortcut keys and temporary override keys.

Next, in the lower left, you should see the command list. Find the cancel command. You can hit C and that will pop you to the start of the “c” commands, you should be able to find it easily from there.

Once you’ve found it, grab it and drag it up to the shortcut keys under the keyboard shortcuts. It doesn’t matter where, as long as it is in the shortcut keys section. Click on the cancel under the shortcut keys to select it

Now, if you look over on the bottom right, you should see the properties for the cancel command. Click on the key(s) line to select it, then click on the ellipsis (you know, the three dots). In the box where it says Press the New Shortcut Key press F1. Click OK, and then again to exit to the CUI dialog, and your F1 key should now work just like your escape key!

Links:
Autodesk Knowledge Base and CAD related web sites:

ID: TS1055497 - Redefining F1 key to use Cancel command

AutoCAD 2005 or below: Changing the F1 key to Escape! via Lynn Allen

AutoCAD 2006 or above: Changing the F1 key to Cancel via Lynn Allen

AUGI Forum:

Disabling Help

Destroy F1 - in AutoCAD 2006 CUI

Disable the F1 key from opening the Help window?

Change the F1 function key to perform some other function

Last edited by Mike.Perry : 2007-07-10 at 10:32 AM. Reason: Additional information added.

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6 Responses to “AUTOCAD DISABLE F1 KEY TIP”

  1. sabrina says:
    November 12, 2009 at 9:42 pm

    awesome!!!!!
    otto, you’re super ottocad king!!

  2. sabrina says:
    November 12, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    i seriously hate the f1 key!
    hahahhahahahhahahhaha..

  3. sabrina says:
    November 16, 2009 at 11:20 am

    so do you know how to take the boundry that said “produced by an autodesk educational product” away while plotting?
    i hate that even way more more more!!

  4. ottocad says:
    November 16, 2009 at 11:37 am

    select entire drawing with all layers on, etc, and use the “wblock” command, it will ask where you want to save the drawing, etc, and hit ok, if you open that drawing, the “autocad educational” should be removed.

  5. sabrina says:
    November 22, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    mmmmm…. still there……

  6. sabrina says:
    December 8, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    i have another computer question but not about autocad…
    if you’re busy.. it’s ok.. you don’t need to answer me right away..
    i have a pdf image want to open from photoshop and work on it.
    when i open pdf file from photoshop, it asked me do i want to open as “page” or “image”
    the only thing i know is if i open with page i have more options i could choose on the right hand side, but image not…and open with page and pdf file show up as a normal layer, but open with image it show up as a background and locked layer…
    however… what’s the different?
    open with image flat the file?

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