Appendix: command aliases

An alias is a short way of typing a command on the command line: L instead of LINE, C instead of CIRCLE. LinceCAD uses the usual AutoCAD aliases in each language, so muscle memory works just the same.

• Type the alias and press Enter or Space, as if it were the full name.
• Every command also has an English global name prefixed with _ (_LINE, _CIRCLE), which works in any interface language: it is the one to use in scripts and in AutoLISP.
• As you type, the command line suggests the commands starting with those letters; an exact alias always comes first.

Your own aliases

Aliases can be changed and added with ALIASEDIT: they are saved in lince.pgp, in the configuration folder (%APPDATA%\lince; on Linux, ~/.config/lince), with the syntax of AutoCAD's acad.pgp (LL, *LINE). An AutoCAD acad.pgp can be imported as it is: its external commands are ignored.

• Your own alias wins over a built-in one with the same letters, but not over a command name.
• With _ or . in front, your own aliases are not used.
• They apply at once, without restarting.

Aliases changed in 1.0.0

So that the aliases are those of the AutoCAD 2027 acad.pgp (the English ones in English and the Spanish ones in Spanish), these have changed. If you prefer the old ones, add them with ALIASEDIT.

Also:

• With the English interface the Spanish aliases no longer work (they clashed with AutoCAD's English aliases, such as R, IM or ALI); the Spanish command names still do.
• With a leading _, English aliases work in any interface language (_DDEDIT, _P), as in AutoCAD.
• The global name of BVPARAM is _BVPARAM (_BVSTATE is another AutoCAD command); in English it is BVPARAM. DIMEDIT's Spanish name is now ACOEDIC, as in AutoCAD.
• In Spanish, the aliases follow AutoCAD 2027 in Spanish: POL is PLINE, U is JOIN, RR is TRIM, CO is SLICE… (see the Spanish version of this page).

Built-in aliases

The table lists every command with its name, its global name and its aliases in the language of this page.

See also

Keyboard and shortcuts · The interface · Welcome