Command shortcuts

CapCad ships command aliases — two or three letters you type on the CAD command line instead of the full command name. They are ordinary CAD aliases, kept in CapCad's own alias file, and you decide whether they apply at all.

Which aliases you get

There is no single CapCad alias table. The set you have depends on two things: your active country profile and the CAD you run. Before using any table on this page, check which file yours comes from.

On AutoCAD

The file CapCad actually uses is:

<CapCad installation folder>\Support\acad.pgp

Three alias sets are installed beside it, and switching the country profile with CAPCAD_COUNTRY_STANDARDS copies the right one over acad.pgp:

Profile	Source file	Mnemonics
Brazil	`acad.pgp-br`	Portuguese — the historical set, listed on the Portuguese page
Spanish-America profiles	`acad.pgp-la`	Spanish — `EJE`, `EJES`, `CRU`, `LN`
Every other profile (UK, generic, airport)	`acad.pgp-en`	English — `ALN`, `STRIP`, `XING`…

Three consequences worth knowing:

A fresh installation lays down the Brazilian set. The acad.pgp the installer copies is a copy of acad.pgp-br. Until a profile switch replaces it, EIXO works and ALN does not, wherever you are.
Open CAPCAD_SHORTCUTS and read the table: it is the reliable answer for your installation. If the aliases are Portuguese and you want the English set, ask support for the acad.pgp-en file and copy it over Support\acad.pgp yourself.
The profile switch only changes the content. It never decides whether CapCad's aliases win over your CAD's own. That stays your CAPCAD_SHORTCUTS Activate / Deactivate choice (see Preferences and working environment).

CAPCAD_SHORTCUTS reads that same Support\acad.pgp and shows you exactly what is in it, so the window is always the authority for your own machine — this page is the reference for what should be there.

On BricsCAD, GstarCAD and ZWCAD

Those hosts read their own alias file — default.pgp, gcad.pgp and zwcad.pgp respectively — and CapCad ships one fixed set per host, with no language variants: the aliases are the Portuguese mnemonics on all three, and the country profile does not change them.

They also differ from the AutoCAD file in three ways:

they still carry the W, Y, 3 and V UCS aliases that AutoCAD's file dropped (on BricsCAD and GstarCAD; ZWCAD's file never had them);
they do not carry SVMAN or SHMAN;
roughly 19 of their aliases name commands that are only available on AutoCAD, so typing them on those hosts has no effect.

On ARES Commander CapCad ships no alias file at all.

The English alias set (`acad.pgp-en`)

The 29 CapCad aliases in the English file:

Alignment and project

Alias	Command	What it opens
`ALN`	`CAPCAD_ALIGNMENT_DRAW`	Draw an alignment
`PRF`	`CAPCAD_PROFILE_DRAW`	Draw a profile
`PROJ`	`CAPCAD_PROJECT_MANAGER`	Project Manager
`ALM`	`CAPCAD_ALIGNMENT_MANAGER`	Alignment Manager
`KM`	`CAPCAD_ALIGNMENT_STATION_GOTO`	Station Navigator

Road markings

Alias	Command	What it opens
`STRIP`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_STRIP`	Marking Strip
`RL`	`CAPCAD_DEVICE_INSERT`	Insert a road device from the library
`A1`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_AREA_1FLOW`	Area Marking, 1 Flow
`A2`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_AREA_2FLOW`	Area Marking, 2 Flows
`A3`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_AREA_3FLOW`	Area Marking, 3 Flows
`AA`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_AREA_FILL`	Filled area marking
`CRO`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_CROSSING`	Crossings
`PARK`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_PARKING`	Parking Bays
`YB`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_YELLOW_BOX`	Conflict-area (yellow box) marking

Traffic signs

Alias	Command	What it opens
`IV`	`CAPCAD_SIGN_INSERT`	Insert a traffic sign
`IS`	`CAPCAD_SIGN_INSERT_SIMPLE`	Insert a sign from the command line
`VA`	`CAPCAD_SIGN_FILL`	Validate and publish a sign drawing
`R1`	`CAPCAD_SIGN_INSERT_STOP_SIGN`	Insert a stop sign

Coordinates

Alias	Command	What it opens
`CC`	`CAPCAD_GEO_POINT_IDENTIFY`	Convert and identify coordinates
`LL`	`CAPCAD_GEO_LATLON`	Quick latitude / longitude

Selections

Alias	Command	What it opens
`SE`	`CAPCAD_SELECT_GROUP`	Select a whole CapCad group
`SS`, `SI`	`CAPCAD_SELECT_BY_HANDLE`	Find a selection or entity by id
`SD`	`CAPCAD_SELECT_GROUP_DELETE`	Delete a CapCad group

Drafting utilities

Alias	Command	What it opens
`CX`	`CAPCAD_COPY_IN_PLACE`	Copy an entity in place, on the current layer
`Q`	`CAPCAD_SPLIT`	Break at one point
`Q2`	`CAPCAD_SPLIT_2POINT`	Split a closed curve
`MR`	`CAPCAD_ROTATION_MATCH`	Match the rotation of one entity to another
`DV`	`CAPCAD_DIVIDER`	Divider Assistant

The Spanish-America alias set (`acad.pgp-la`)

Same 29 commands, Spanish mnemonics. Only the rows that differ from the English set are listed:

Alias	Command
`EJE`	`CAPCAD_ALIGNMENT_DRAW`
`PERF`	`CAPCAD_PROFILE_DRAW`
`EJES`	`CAPCAD_ALIGNMENT_MANAGER`
`LN`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_STRIP`
`BV`	`CAPCAD_DEVICE_INSERT`
`H1`, `H2`, `H3`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_AREA_1FLOW` / `_2FLOW` / `_3FLOW`
`HL`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_AREA_LINEAR`
`CRU`	`CAPCAD_MARKING_CROSSING`

The Spanish set has HL for the linear area marking where the English set has AA for the filled area marking; everything else (PROJ, KM, PARK, YB, the sign, coordinate, selection and utility rows) is identical.

The CAD's own aliases

All three files end with the same block of aliases for native CAD commands. These are not CapCad commands, and they override some of the CAD's stock aliases — that is deliberate, and it is why the Deactivate button exists.

Layers	Draw	Utilities	Modify	Layout
`LO` LAYON	`TX` TEXT	`D` DIST	`R` ROTATE	`CS` CHSPACE
`LF` LAYOFF	`MT` MTEXT	`QS` QSELECT	`T` TRIM	`AS` ALIGNSPACE
`LS` LAYISO	`CI` CIRCLE	`PO` PASTEORIG	`C` COPY
`LP` LAYERP		`XL` -XLIST	`RV` REVERSE
`LC` LAYCUR		`N` NCOPY
`LFF` LAYFRZ		`I` CLASSICINSERT
`LT` LAYTHW
`LU` LAYULK
`LD` LAYDEL

Notes

The UCS letter aliases. On AutoCAD, W, Y, 3 and V are not CapCad aliases: the ribbon buttons run the native _UCS command, and the CAD's stock V = VIEW behaviour applies. The three non-AutoCAD host files carry them.
Some stock aliases are deliberately overridden: DC, DV, IM, IMP, IN, SE and COL. The user-defined section of a pgp file wins, by the CAD's own rules.
An alias only reaches a command that is available on your host. Not every command is available on every CAD, so an alias present in the file can still have no effect.
The Command Library palette searches on the alias as well as on the command name and the ribbon label, and shows all three language tags side by side — useful when you know the Brazilian mnemonic and want the English one.