If you have recently shifted from AutoCAD to DraftSight and checking what all AutoCAD Commands are available in DraftSight then this post is for you.
Not all AutoCAD Commands have same name in DraftSight. For easy access we have listed most of AutoCAD Command in following Table. You can search your AutoCAD Command and find it’s name in DraftSight. 🙂
Acronym:
— NA — = Not Available
| Sr. No. | AutoCAD 2018 | DraftSight 2018 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3DARRAY | _PATTERN3D |
| 2 | MIRROR3D | _MIRROR3D |
| 3 | 3DWALK | -- NA -- |
| 4 | 3DORBIT | _ROLLVIEW |
| 5 | 3DPRINT | -- NA -- |
| 6 | 3DFACE | _FACE |
| 7 | 3DMOVE | -- NA -- |
| 8 | 3DPOLY | _POLYLINE3D |
| 9 | 3DROTATE | -- NA -- |
| 10 | 3DSCALE | -- NA -- |
| 11 | ARC | _ARC |
| 12 | BACTION | -- NA -- |
| 13 | ADCENTER | -- NA -- |
| 14 | -ExportToAutoCAD | -- NA -- |
| 15 | AREA | _GETAREA |
| 16 | ALIGN | _ALIGN |
| 17 | 3DALIGN | _ALIGN3D |
| 18 | APPLOAD | -- NA -- |
| 19 | ALLPLAY | -- NA -- |
| 20 | ARRAY | _PATTERN |
| 21 | -ARRAY | _-PATTERN |
| 22 | ACTRECORD | -- NA -- |
| 23 | ACTUSERMESSAGE | -- NA -- |
| 24 | -ACTUSERMESSAGE | -- NA -- |
| 25 | ACTUSERINPUT | -- NA -- |
| 26 | ACTSTOP | -- NA -- |
| 27 | -ACTSTOP | -- NA -- |
| 28 | ATTIPEDIT | _EDITIPBLOCKATTRIBUTE |
| 29 | ATTDEF | _MAKEBLOCKATTRIBUTE |
| 30 | -ATTDEF | _-MAKEBLOCKATTRIBUTE |
| 31 | ATTEDIT | _EDITBLOCKATTRIBUTE |
| 32 | -ATTEDIT | _-EDITBLOCKATTRIBUTE |
| 33 | BLOCK | _MAKEBLOCK |
| 34 | -BLOCK | _-MAKEBLOCK |
| 35 | BCLOSE | -- NA -- |
| 36 | BEDIT | -- NA -- |
| 37 | HATCH | HATCH |
| 38 | SURFBLEND | -- NA -- |
| 39 | BOUNDARY | AREABOUNDARY |
| 40 | -BOUNDARY | _-AREABOUNDARY |
| 41 | BREAK | SPLIT |
| 42 | BSAVE | -- NA -- |
| 43 | BVSTATE | -- NA -- |
| 44 | CIRCLE | CIRCLE |
| 45 | CAMERA | -- NA -- |
| 46 | CONSTRAINTBAR | -- NA -- |
| 47 | PROPERTIES | _PROPERTIES |
| 48 | CHANGE | MODIFY |
| 49 | CHAMFER | CHAMFER |
| 50 | CHECKSTANDARDS | VERIFYSTANDARDS |
| 51 | COMMANDLINE | COMMANDWINDOW |
| 52 | COLOR | LINECOLOR |
| 53 | COPY | COPY |
| 54 | MESHSMOOTH | -- NA -- |
| 55 | BCPARAMETER | -- NA -- |
| 56 | MESHCREASE | -- NA -- |
| 57 | SURFSCULPT | -- NA -- |
| 58 | CONSTRAINTSETTINGS | -- NA -- |
| 59 | CTABLESTYLE | SETACTTBLSTYL |
| 60 | -- NA -- VVCUBE | -- NA -- |
| 61 | A -- NA -- LYSISCURVATURE | -- NA -- |
| 62 | CYLINDER | -- NA -- |
| 63 | DIMSTYLE | DIMENSIONSTYLE |
| 64 | DIMALIGNED | PARALLELDIMENSION |
| 65 | DIMANGULAR | ANGLEDIMENSION |
| 66 | DIMARC | ARCLENGTHDIMENSION |
| 67 | ERASE | DELETE |
| 68 | DIMJOGGED | JOGGEDDIEMNSION |
| 69 | DIMBASELINE | BASELINEDIMENSION |
| 70 | DBCONNECT | -- NA -- |
| 71 | DIMCENTER | CENTERMARK |
| 72 | DIMCONTINUE | CONTINUEDIMENSION |
| 73 | DIMCONSTRAINT | -- NA -- |
| 74 | DIMDISASSOCIATE | UNRELATEDIMENSION |
| 75 | DIMDIAMETER | DIAMETERDIMENSION |
| 76 | DIMEDIT | EDITDIMENSION |
| 77 | DELCONSTRAINT | -- NA -- |
| 78 | DIST | GETDISTANCE |
| 79 | DIVIDE | MARKDIVISIONS |
| 80 | DIMJOGLINE | -- NA -- |
| 81 | DATALINK | -- NA -- |
| 82 | DIMLINEAR | LINEARDIMENSION |
| 83 | DATALINKUPDATE | -- NA -- |
| 84 | DONUT | RING |
| 85 | DIMORDINATE | ORDINATEDIMENSION |
| 86 | DIMOVERRIDE | _OVERRIDEDIMENSIONSTYLE |
| 87 | DRAWORDER | DISPLAYORDER |
| 88 | DIMRADIUS | RADIUSDIMENSION |
| 89 | ANALYSISDRAFTANGLE | -- NA -- |
| 90 | DIMREASSOCIATE | RELATEDIMENSION |
| 91 | DRAWINGRECOVERY | -- NA -- |
| 92 | DSETTINGS | DRFTINGOPTIONS |
| 93 | TEXT | SIMPLENOTE |
| 94 | DVIEW | -- NA -- |
| 95 | DATAEXTRACTION | -- NA -- |
| 96 | DDEDIT | EDITANNOTATION |
| 97 | ELLIPSE | ELLIPSE |
| 98 | EXTERNALREFERENCES | REFERENCES |
| 99 | EDITSHOT | -- NA -- |
| 100 | EXTEND | EXTEND |
| 101 | QUIT | -- NA -- |
| 102 | EXPORT | EXPORT |
| 103 | EXTRUDE | EXTRUDE |
| 104 | SURFEXTEND | -- NA -- |
| 105 | FILLET | FILLET |
| 106 | FILTER | SELECTIONFILTER |
| 107 | SURFFILLET | -- NA -- |
| 108 | POINTLIGHT | POINTLIGHT |
| 109 | FLATSHOT | -- NA -- |
| 110 | GROUP | QUICKGROUP |
| 111 | -GROUP | -- NA -- |
| 112 | GEOMCONSTRAINT | -- -- NA -- -- |
| 113 | GRADIENT | FILLAREA |
| 114 | SECTIONPLANETOBLOCK | -- NA -- |
| 115 | GEOGRAPHICLOCATION | -- NA -- |
| 116 | DDGRIPS | ENTITYGRIPS |
| 117 | -HATCH | _-HATCH |
| 118 | HATCHEDIT | EDITHATCH |
| 119 | HATCHTOBACK | -- NA -- |
| 120 | HIDE | HIDEVIEW |
| 121 | INSERT | INSERTBLOCK |
| 122 | -INSERT | _-INSERTBLOCK |
| 123 | IMAGEADJUST | -- NA -- |
| 124 | IMAGEATTACH | ATTACHIMAGE |
| 125 | IMAGECLIP | -- NA -- |
| 126 | IMAGE | REFERENCES |
| 127 | -IMAGE | EDITIMAGE |
| 128 | IMPORT | IMPORT |
| 129 | INTERSECT | -- NA -- |
| 130 | CVADD | -- NA -- |
| 131 | INTERFERE | -- NA -- |
| 132 | INSERTOBJ | INSERTOBJECT |
| 133 | ISOLATEOBJECTS | -- NA -- |
| 134 | QVDRAWING | -- NA -- |
| 135 | QVDRAWINGCLOSE | -- NA -- |
| 136 | QVLAYOUT | -- NA -- |
| 137 | QVLAYOUTCLOSE | -- NA -- |
| 138 | JOIN | WELD |
| 139 | SECTIONPLANEJOG | -- NA -- |
| 140 | LINE | LINE |
| 141 | LAYER | LAYER |
| 142 | -LAYER | _-LAYER |
| 143 | LAYERSTATE | -- NA -- |
| 144 | QLEADER | SMARTLEADER |
| 145 | LENGTHEN | EDITLENGTH |
| 146 | MESHSMOOTHLESS | -- NA -- |
| 147 | LIST | GETPROPERTIES |
| 148 | LWEIGHT | LINEWEIGHT |
| 149 | -LAYOUT | _-SHEET |
| 150 | LINETYPE | LINESTYLE |
| 151 | -LINETYPE | _-LINESTYLE |
| 152 | LTSCALE | LINESCALE |
| 153 | MOVE | MOVE |
| 154 | MATCHPROP | PROPERTYPAINTER |
| 155 | MATBROWSEROPEN | -- NA -- |
| 156 | MEASURE | MARKLENGTHS |
| 157 | MEASUREGEOM | -- NA -- |
| 158 | MIRROR | MIRROR |
| 159 | MLINE | RICHLINE |
| 160 | MLEADERALIGN | -- NA -- |
| 161 | MLEADERCOLLECT | -- NA -- |
| 162 | MLEADER | -- NA -- |
| 163 | MLEADEREDIT | -- NA -- |
| 164 | MLEADERSTYLE | -- NA -- |
| 165 | MESHSMOOTHMORE | -- NA -- |
| 166 | NAVSMOTION | -- NA -- |
| 167 | NAVSMOTIONCLOSE | -- NA -- |
| 168 | MSPACE | MODELMODE |
| 169 | MARKUP | -- NA -- |
| 170 | MTEXT | NOTE |
| 171 | MVIEW | VIEWPORT |
| 172 | SURFNETWORK | -- NA -- |
| 173 | NEWSHOT | -- NA -- |
| 174 | NEWVIEW | -- NA -- |
| 175 | OFFSET | OFFSET |
| 176 | SURFOFFSET | -- NA -- |
| 177 | OPTIONS | OPTIONS |
| 178 | OSNAP | ENTITYSNAP |
| 179 | -OSNAP | _-ENTITYSNAP |
| 180 | PAN | PAN |
| 181 | -PAN | _-PAN |
| 182 | PASTESPEC | PASTESELECTED |
| 183 | PARAMETERS | -- NA -- |
| 184 | -PARAMETERS | -- NA -- |
| 185 | BPARAMETER | -- NA -- |
| 186 | -PARTIALOPEN | -- NA -- |
| 187 | SURFPATCH | -- NA -- |
| 188 | POINTCLOUD | -- NA -- |
| 189 | POINTCLOUDATTACH | -- NA -- |
| 190 | POINTCLOUDINDEX | -- NA -- |
| 191 | PEDIT | EDITPOLYLINE |
| 192 | PLINE | POLYLINE |
| 193 | POINT | POINT |
| 194 | HIDEPALETTES | -- NA -- |
| 195 | CVSHOW | -- NA -- |
| 196 | CVHIDE | -- NA -- |
| 197 | POLYGON | POLYGON |
| 198 | SHOWPALETTES | -- NA -- |
| 199 | PROPERTIESCLOSE | HIDEPROPERTIES |
| 200 | PREVIEW | PREVIEW |
| 201 | PLOT | |
| 202 | PSPACE | SHEETMODE |
| 203 | POLYSOLID | -- NA -- |
| 204 | PUBLISHTOWEB | -- NA -- |
| 205 | PURGE | CLEAN |
| 206 | -PURGE | _-CLEAN |
| 207 | PYRAMID | -- NA -- |
| 208 | QUICKCALC | SMARTCALCULATOR |
| 209 | QUICKCUI | -- NA -- |
| 210 | QUICKPROPERTIES | -- NA -- |
| 211 | REDRAW | REFRESH |
| 212 | REDRAWALL | REFRESHALL |
| 213 | RENDERCROP | -- NA -- |
| 214 | REGEN | REBUILD |
| 215 | REGENALL | REBUILDALL |
| 216 | CVREBUILD | -- NA -- |
| 217 | RECTANG | RECTANGLE |
| 218 | MESHREFINE | -- NA -- |
| 219 | REGION | REGION |
| 220 | CVREMOVE | -- NA -- |
| 221 | RENAME | RENAME |
| 222 | -RENAME | -RENAME |
| 223 | REVOLVE | -- NA -- |
| 224 | ROTATE | ROTATE |
| 225 | RENDERPRESETS | -- NA -- |
| 226 | RPREF | -- NA -- |
| 227 | RENDER | ARENDER |
| 228 | RENDERWIN | -- NA -- |
| 229 | STRETCH | STRETCH |
| 230 | SCALE | SCALE |
| 231 | SCRIPT | LOADSCRIPT |
| 232 | SECTION | -- NA -- |
| 233 | SETVAR | SETVARIABLE |
| 234 | SHADEMODE | SHADEVIEW |
| 235 | SLICE | -- NA -- |
| 236 | SNAP | SNAP |
| 237 | SOLID | SOLID |
| 238 | SPELL | SPELLCHECK |
| 239 | SPLINE | SPLINE |
| 240 | SECTIONPLANE | -- NA -- |
| 241 | SEQUENCEPLAY | -- NA -- |
| 242 | MESHSPLIT | -- NA -- |
| 243 | SPLINEDIT | -- NA -- |
| 244 | SHEETSET | -- NA -- |
| 245 | STYLE | TEXTSTYLE |
| 246 | STANDARDS | DRAWINGSTANDARDS |
| 247 | SUBTRACT | -- NA -- |
| 248 | -MTEXT | -NOTE |
| 249 | TABLET | -- NA -- |
| 250 | TABLE | TABLE |
| 251 | TEXTEDIT | EDITANNOTATION |
| 252 | THICKNESS | SETACTTHK |
| 253 | TILEMODE | SWITCHAREA |
| 254 | TOOLBAR | CUSTOMIZE |
| 255 | TOLERANCE | TOLERANCE |
| 256 | TORUS | -- NA -- |
| 257 | TOOLPALETTES | -- NA -- |
| 258 | TRIM | TRIM |
| 259 | TABLESTYLE | TABLESTYLE |
| 260 | UCSMAN | CSSTYLE |
| 261 | UNITS | UNITSYSTEM |
| 262 | -UNITS | -UNITSYSTEM |
| 263 | MESHUNCREASE | -- NA -- |
| 264 | UNISOLATEOBJECTS | -- NA -- |
| 265 | UNION | -- NA -- |
| 266 | VIEW | VIEWS |
| 267 | VIEWGO | -- NA -- |
| 268 | VIEWPLAY | -- NA -- |
| 269 | -VIEW | -VIEWS |
| 270 | DDVPOINT | -- NA -- |
| 271 | VPOINT | VIEWDIRECTION |
| 272 | VSCURRENT | -- NA -- |
| 273 | VISUALSTYLES | -- NA -- |
| 274 | -VISUALSTYLES | -- NA -- |
| 275 | WBLOCK | EXPORTDRAWING |
| 276 | -WBLOCK | -EXPORTDRAWING |
| 277 | WEDGE | -- NA -- |
| 278 | -- NA -- VSWHEEL | -- NA -- |
| 279 | EXPLODE | EXPLODE |
| 280 | XATTACH | ATTACHDRAWING |
| 281 | XBIND | -- NA -- |
| 282 | -XBIND | -- NA -- |
| 283 | XCLIP | CLIPREFERENCE |
| 284 | XLINE | INFINITELINE |
| 285 | XREF | REFERENCES |
| 286 | -XREF | _-REFERENCES |
| 287 | ZOOM | ZOOM |
| 288 | ANLYSISZEBRA | -- NA -- |
| 290 | SCALELISTEDIT | EDITSCALELIST |
| 291 | VPLAYER | VIEWPORTLAYER |
| 292 | VPMAX | -- NA -- |
| 293 | VPMIN | -- NA -- |
| 294 | VPORTS | VIEWTILES |
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