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3. Commands
3.1. AutoCAD 2020
3.1.1 New and changed commands
| BLOCKSPALETTE | Opens the palette of blocks. |
| BLOCKSPALETTECLOSE | Closes the palette of blocks. |
| CLASSICINSERT | Opens the classic Insert dialog box. |
| INSERT | Starts the BLOCKSPALETTE command except in scripts that open the older INSERT command for script compatibility. |
| -INSERT | Starts the command line version of the classic INSERT command. |
| Cleanup | Opens the newly designed Cleanup dialog box. |
| COMPARISON | Closes the comparison toolbar and ends the comparison. |
| COMPAREEXPORT | Exports the comparison results to a new drawing called a snapshot drawing and opens the drawing. |
| COMPAREIMPORT | Imports objects from the comparison file into the current drawing. Only the selected objects that are present in the comparison file and not in the current file are imported. |
| MEASUREGEOM | Adds the Quick option for real-time measurements. |
| AMDIMARRANGE | Now supports the arrangement of multiple horizontal and vertical dimensions. |
| TEXTLAYER | Defines a default layer for new text and multiline text objects in the current drawing. |
3.1.2 New system variables
| BLOCKMRULIST | Controls the number of blocks displayed on the Recent tab of the block palette. |
| BLOCKNAVIGATE | Controls the file and blocks displayed on the Other Drawing tab of the Block Palette. Effective the next time the program is started. |
| BLOCKREDEFINEMODE | Controls whether the Block - Redefine Block task dialog box appears when a block from the block palette with the same name as a block is inserted within the current drawing. |
| BLOCKSTATE | Reports whether the block palette is open or closed. |
3.2 AutoCAD 2019
3.2.1 New and modified commands
| Compare | Compare the differences between two revisions of the same drawing or different drawings and highlight them. |
| -compare | The command window is used to compare and highlight the differences between two revisions of the same drawing or different drawings. |
| COMPARISONINFO | Pastes or copies the property information of the two compared drawing files. |
| sharedviews | Opens the Shared Views palette. |
| sharedviewsclose | Closes the Shared Views palette. |
3.2.2 New System Variables
| COMPARECOLOR1 | Defines the color of the objects that are only present in the first drawing in the file of the comparison result drawing. |
| COMPARECOLOR2 | Defines the color of objects that are only present in the second drawing in the file of the comparison result drawing. |
| COMPARECOLORCOMMON | Determines the color of the objects that are identical in the two compared drawings. |
| COMPAREFRONT | Defines the default display order of overlapping objects in the comparison results drawing. |
| COMPAREHATCH | Determines whether hatch objects are included in the drawing comparison. |
| COMPAREPROPS | Determines whether a change in a non-geometric (display) property is recognized as a change between two drawing revisions. |
| COMPARERCMARGIN | Specifies the offset distance of the boundary frame of a revision cloud that marks the object differences in a comparison result drawing. |
| COMPARERCSHAPE | Determines whether nearby individual changes are merged as a single large rectangle or multiple small rectangles in the comparison results drawing. |
| COMPARESHOW1 | Displays the objects that only exist in the first drawing. |
| COMPARESHOW2 | Displays the objects that only exist in the second drawing. |
| COMPARESHOWCOMMON | Displays the objects that match in both drawings being compared. |
| COMPARESHOWRC | Displays a revision cloud over the difference in the comparison result drawing. |
| COMPARETEXT | Determines whether text objects are included in the drawing comparison. |
| COMPARETOLERANCE | Specifies the tolerance used when comparing two drawing files. Objects are considered identical if they are less than or equal to a certain decimal value. |
| FILLETPOLYARC | Determines the rounding behavior of polylines with arcs, either current or obsolete. Only affects the Polyline option of the ROUND command. |
| MVIEWPREVIEW | Controls the preview behavior when inserting a named or new layout viewport. |
| SECUREREMOTEACCESS | Determines whether files can be accessed from the Internet or from remote servers. |
| SHAREVIEWPROPERTIES | Determines whether drawing properties are considered for shared views. |
| SHAREVIEWTYPE | Determines whether a shared view is created from the current view, model space, layout, or the entire drawing. |
| STUDENTDRAWING | Indicates whether the current drawing was saved with the student version of an Autodesk product. |
3.3. AutoCAD 2018
3.3.1 New and changed commands
| NEUANS | Saves a new named view from the display in the current viewport or by defining a rectangular window. |
3.3.2 New System Variables
| LAYEROVERRIDEHIGHLIGHT | Activates or deactivates the visibility of the background color marker for layers with overrides. |
| THUMBSIZE2D | Controls whether the thumbnails of drawings with 2D visual wireframe styles are set to a screen resolution of 256 x 256 pixels. |
| VISRETAINMODE | Controls the behavior of the VISRETAIN system variable, which is set to 1. |
| XREFLAYER | Specifies a default layer for a new XRef. |
| PDFSHX | Converts the SHX geometry imported from PDF files into individual multiline text objects. |
| MILLISECS | Stores the number of milliseconds elapsed since the system was started. |
| PDFSHXBESTFONT | When converting imported PDF geometry to text, checks whether the PDFSHXTEXT command selects the font with the best match or the first font that exceeds the recognition threshold. |
| REFPATHTYPE | Controls whether the referenced files use complete, relative, or no paths when first mapped to the file of a parent drawing. |
| SELECTIONOFFSCREEN | Controls the selection of objects outside the screen. |
3.4. AutoCAD 2017
3.4.1 New and changed commands
| AMLGISO | Hides or locks all layergroups except those of the selected objects. |
| AMLGUNISO | Recovers all layergroups hidden or locked with the AMLGISO command. |
| AMMOTOR2D | Inserts a motor from a standard parts library. |
| AMRECTBWH | Creates a rectangle by selecting the center of the base as the starting point and specifying the full base and height. |
| AMRECTBWH2 | Creates a rectangle using the center of the base as the starting point and specifying half the base and full height. |
| AMRECTCW2H | Creates a rectangle using the center of the rectangle as the starting point and specifying half the base and full height. |
| AMRECTCW2H2 | Creates a rectangle using the center of the rectangle as the starting point and specifying half the base and half the height. |
| AMRECTCWH | Creates a rectangle using the center of the rectangle as the starting point and specifying the whole base and height. |
| AMRECTCWH2 | Creates a rectangle using the center of the rectangle as the starting point and specifying the full base and half the height. |
| ARMRECTLWH | Creates a rectangle using the center of the height as the starting point and specifying the full base and height. |
| AMRECTLWH2 | Creates a rectangle by selecting the center of the height as the starting point and specifying the full base and half the height. |
| AMRECTQBT | Creates a square using the base center as the starting point and specifying the full base. |
| AMRECTQBY | Creates a square using the center of the base as the starting point and specifying half of the base. |
| AMRECTQCR | Creates a square using the center of the square as the starting point and specifying half the base. |
| AMRECTQCW | Creates a square using the center of the square as the starting point and specifying the length of the base. |
| AMRECTQLR | Creates a square using the center of the height and specifying the full base. |
| AMRECTQLY | Creates a square using the center of the height as the starting point and specifying half the base. |
| AMRECTQXY | Creates a square using a corner of the base as the starting point and specifying the full base. |
| AMRECTXWH | Creates a rectangle using a corner of the rectangle as the starting point and specifying the full base and height. |
3.4.2 New system variables
| AMLGCOLORMODE | Makes the layergroup color available for editing. |
| AMLGLTMODE | Makes the line type of the layer group available for editing. |
| AMLGLWMODE | Makes the Line Thickness property of the layergroup available for editing. |
| AMNOTETAB | Specifies whether the Annotation Icon dialog box or the context-sensitive ribbon tab of the Ribbon Command Line Comment is displayed when editing command line comments. |
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