'Alt + E' not working as usual, any help?

[ReachAndre]

Hello all,
in the past I have been able to hold the Alt key and hit any of the options (in this case D for paste to original coordinates.)

I was forced to switch to a different machine and now AutoCAD is now requiring me to hit enter or the down arrow before the edit menu pulls down.

Any help to return AutoCAD to my former setting would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Andre

[tedg]

Hello all,
in the past I have been able to hold the Alt key and hit any of the options (in this case D for paste to original coordinates.)

I was forced to switch to a different machine and now AutoCAD is now requiring me to hit enter or the down arrow before the edit menu pulls down.

Any help to return AutoCAD to my former setting would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Andre

Sounds like you had some customized stuff going on?
I'm not aware of "ALT+D" = "pasting to original coordinates" with OOTB Acad.

If that's the case you would need to re-customize the new machine.

[ReachAndre]

Sounds like you had some customized stuff going on?
I'm not aware of "ALT+D" = "pasting to original coordinates" with OOTB Acad.

If that's the case you would need to re-customize the new machine.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I am trying to hold Alt and then hit E and the D to access the paste to original coordinates.

[scott.wilcox]

Not sure what version you are using, but OOTB Alt-E toggles isoplane drawing aids.

You can assign a shortcut for past to original coordinates (I use CTRL + SHIFT + V) in the CUI.

[tedg]

Sorry for the misunderstanding.
I am trying to hold Alt and then hit E and the D to access the paste to original coordinates.

Ohhh... I get it now. (I didn't know that particular sequence of steps to "_pasteorig").

sorry

Sounds like you may need to reinstall or repair your application?

I don't know, sorry.

[jaberwok]

Not sure what version you are using, but OOTB Alt-E toggles isoplane drawing aids.

That's Ctrl+E.
Alt+E switches the ribbon to the Express Tools tab.

[Railrose]

There used to be an option for enabling hot keys, or something like that, but I'm not finding it. It turned a bunch of that stuff on & off.

[irneb]

The Alt keystrokes comes from the older Windows menus. Usually each pull-down menu has an underlined character which would open that menu if the user pressed it combined with Alt. Then the items inside the menu may, or may not have similar underlined chars. I'm not certain how this works with the ribbon of 2009 / 10 ... but you can assign the various chars in the CUI.

E.g. type CUI, open the ACAD --> Menus branch and select the Edit item. Notice the Properties panel on the right? The name field should have &Edit. The ampersand (&) means the next character is the Alt shortcut. If it is not shown this way, you could change it. If it is shown this way, there may be another menu using the same Key, in which case ACad would automatically assign a different key to one of them (no knowing which). Or as stated previously the ribbon may act differently (I'm still trying to get used to Office 2007's ribbon shortcuts)

BTW, the other Keyboard Shortcuts in the CUI could make for even less keystrokes.

[scott.wilcox]

That's Ctrl+E.
Alt+E switches the ribbon to the Express Tools tab.

You're right. My bad.

This is the one place I change the default AutoCAD setting:

Paste as block is default CTRL + SHIFT + V. I use CTRL + SHIFT + V as paste to original coordinates and CTRL + SHIFT + B for paste as block.

[irneb]

I leave the standard Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Ctrl+V = normal Paste
• Ctrl+Shift+V = Paste as block

But then I add Ctrl+Alt+V as Paste to original coordinates. But yours seems more logical though! I'm just used to mine already ...