TheSwamp
CAD Forums => CAD General => Topic started by: gmyroup on October 18, 2007, 08:05:41 AM
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Good morning
What is your preferred method for terminating an ACAD command?
Jerry
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you missed right click only which is what I use
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I actually use all of the above (except I have my right-click set up as an <ENTER> only) depending on the mood/command I'm in.
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Ditto Matt, though ESC is most common, so I voted for that.
I have my RightClick menus set like Hendie. So depending on the command and what it's expecting for entry, I may simply right click.
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All of the above. Right click is Enter Only, too.
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Almost forgot the occasional "three-finger-salute" when ESC won't work. :-)
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Almost forgot the occasional "three-finger-salute" when ESC won't work. :-)
CTRL + Alt + Delete ? :)
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Almost forgot the occasional "three-finger-salute" when ESC won't work. :-)
CTRL + Alt + Delete ? :)
BINGO!
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Thanks for your input everyone. How do you set the right-click so it acts as the enter key?
Jerry
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Thanks for your input everyone. How do you set the right-click so it acts as the enter key?
Jerry
Tools > Options > User-Preferences > Right-Click Customization
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My mouse has 2 extra buttons, one each on each side.
I have the Right one programmed as ESC.
It makes it much easier to terminate a command when ENTER is not appropriate.
craigr
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I prefer to use the right click, but with some of the commands in electrical (or the customization my company did) it doesn't let you enter out of a command, so I have to use esc. I voted for right click though, as that is my preferred way to exit a command.
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Thanks Josh
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I use the Awnold method...
OK, bad joke.
Right Click.
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And for those "special" Civil 3D moments when nothing else will do . . . the old end process button in task manager - it still may take 3 or more tries before kicking in but at least I don't have to resort to the power button since 2007 came out.
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And for those "special" Civil 3D moments when nothing else will do . . . the old end process button in task manager - it still may take 3 or more tries before kicking in but at least I don't have to resort to the power button since 2007 came out.
:-D :-D :-D
When the escape key does not work, I try the End Process route. I give it one minute, Then I hit the power button. Just too impatient.
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DinØ,
There are times that C3D appears to not be working, and Windows will conspire to tell you that it isn't; most cases it IS working and the task will finish. You will note there are a few long pauses in the recent XDREFS tutorial, as I meditated, and read the Help file waiting for it to return a COMMAND line prompt.
Old habit from LDD desktop, ENTER through the promts, until COMMAND line appears. Otherwise it would leave most of your SYSVARS in dissarray. This isn't the issue here, however I have noticed that STRAY clicks, or any form of input while it (C3D) seems to not be working, will surely make it stop.
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Many times it will work its way through. I don't resort to the death penalty unless task manager shows zero activity. It rarely happens since 2007 EXCEPT for when it gets stuck in the command in progress loop. I have tried every variation of the "save" remedies and only once or twice have they worked. If they fail I am left with little choice other than an extended lunch and likely still have to kill the process.
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When you use the escape key, do you hit it multiple times even though the command exits with just one? If so, how many times?
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I hit it 3 times without even thinking about it.
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When you use the escape key, do you hit it multiple times even though the command exits with just one? If so, how many times?
Anywhere from one light tap, to 500 furious poundings, is my guess, for my actions.
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'500 furious poundings' - I like that!
craigr
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Anywhere from one light tap, to 500 furious poundings ...
AKA "percussive cessation".
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Rule #1
when in doubt...hit escape
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I just accidentally found out that the menu key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key) on your keyboard (beside Windows key on right side of space bar) also acts like 'Enter' for some reason. Maybe it's just mine, but anyway...
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I just accidentally found out that the menu key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key) on your keyboard (beside Windows key on right side of space bar) also acts like 'Enter' for some reason. Maybe it's just mine, but anyway...
It works randomly on mine. I hit it like 5 times, and then it ends the command with no errors.
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I voted esc thinking you meant "cancel the command." After reading some response, I'm not so sure. For terminating an active command, like LINE, I usually hit enter sometimes esc. I guess it depends where my hand is. For cancelling, I usually hit esc although I sometimes catch myself hitting ctrl-c. ctlk-brk still works though.
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I sometimes catch myself hitting ctrl-c.
Funny, I did that for the first time in a long time the other day. :)
Then, out of curiosity, I tried typing ^C at the command line... unknown command.
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I just accidentally found out that the menu key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key) on your keyboard (beside Windows key on right side of space bar) also acts like 'Enter' for some reason. Maybe it's just mine, but anyway...
the <spacebar> also works as a terminator
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Undefine, then some piano wire, or a shotgun blast. If I can get my hands on Sarah Connor...
<rimshot>
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For terminating an active command, like LINE,
Ahem, newb thought: The above doesn't leave a "dot" that may mess up osnaps....or some such other?
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For terminating an active command, like LINE,
Ahem, newb thought: The above doesn't leave a "dot" that may mess up osnaps....or some such other?
Nope.
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I just accidentally found out that the menu key (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key) on your keyboard (beside Windows key on right side of space bar) also acts like 'Enter' for some reason. Maybe it's just mine, but anyway...
the <spacebar> also works as a terminator
Throw that into my mix of esc and enter. Probably the most used of the three. Didn't think about it since space is enter in AutoCADexcept in text commands, and filenames
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I've always avoided using escape if at all possible, in the past it would be read as a cancel, and for some commands that may lead to a different result.
ENTER (in its several forms) is the proper way to COMPLETE a command.
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ENTER (in its several forms) is the proper way to COMPLETE a command.
Good call. Esc will TERMINATE a command though.
What's this all about, anyway? I mean, it just seems like a strange question, is all.
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It's not such a strange question to ask if you are writing your own CAD software, and you want to know what the average user considers most intuitive in terms of user interface.
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It's not such a strange question to ask if you are writing your own CAD software, and you want to know what the average user considers most intuitive in terms of user interface.
No, I realize that... just curious about the application is all, I guess... I know WHY he was asking, just ...
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I use spacebar but there are 3 commands (perhaps) that don't terminate with spacebar.
1) qleader and Mtext (Does anyone actually use ctl & enter)
Can't remember 2 & 3
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I stick to escape most of the times... the only downside is sometimes it may bug out, depending on the author's follow-through when coding, and leave some sysvars changed from the state they were in before the command was issued.