If you are familiar with AutoCAD, you may think that certain common commands are missing from DWGeditor.

It’s not that they aren’t there, its just that some of them have different names. Here’s how to put those AutoCAD command names into DWGeditor.

Let’s start with a quick example. In AutoCAD, if you want to change the properties of an object you can select Modify | Properties, which starts the Properties command.

It is quite easy to get DWGeditor to recognize those “missing” AutoCAD commands.

Start the Customize command (Tools | Customize) and select the Aliases tab as shown in figure 1.

Figure 1: The Aliases tab of the Customize dialog box lets you create your own aliases.

Now select the New button and then type in the new command name in the Alias window; for example, Properties.

Next, scroll down the Available Commands list and select the existing DWGeditor command that you want to have assigned to your new alias. In the example case of Properties it would be EntProp, as shown in figure 2.

Figure 2: We have created Properties as an  alias for the EntProp command.

1. Aliases are not case sensitive.
2. You will not be warned if you create a new alias whose name is the same as an existing one. The existing one will simply be reassigned to your new selection.
3. The Reset button resets all aliases back to their default values and deletes any custom ones you created.
4. Custom alias lists can be exported and imported.

            Commands:
                        Customize
                                    Command: customize
                                    Menu: Tools > Customize
            System variable:
                        CMDLNTEXT
                                    Command: cmdlntext
                                    Command: setvar