Aliases in IntelliCAD

Aliases? I thought this is about IntelliCAD. And this
isn't the secret service or so. I know. But aliases
have to do with IntelliCAD.

If you want to start a command, then you can click on a
button in one of the toolbars. But you can also type a
key in the keyboard.

Suppose you want to start the Line command. You can
click on the Line button in the Draw 2D toolbar. But
you can also press the L key.

Press the L key and press the right mouse button. Or
the Enter key. And the Line command is started. You can
now draw a line or lines.

The L key. That's called an alias. It's an alias for
the Line command. There are many aliases in IntelliCAD.
You can have a look at them.

Click on Tools in the menu bar and on Customize in the
pull down menu. The Customize dialog box opens. In it
are four tabs.

Click on the Aliases tab. You'll see two list boxes. In
the listbox at the left are all the aliases. In the
other listbox are the commands.

Click on an alias in the list box at the left. The
command that belongs to the alias will be highlighted
in the list box at the right.

All the aliases are stored in the IntelliCAD program.
But you can change that. Maybe you want to change an
alias.

Click on the New button. The Alias edit box below the
list box at the left will be activated. Here you can
type the name of the new alias.

Next select a command in the list box at the right. And
then lick on the Assign button. The command is now
assigned to the new alias.

You can check what command is activated by using an
alias. Click on the name of an alias in the list box at
the left. The command is highlighted.

In the Customize dialog box you find the New button,
the Delete button, and the Assign button. You know how
you can use the New button and the Assign button.

The Delete button can be used to delete an alias.
Select the alias in the list box at the left. Next
click on the Delete button.

At the bottom of the dialog box are four more buttons.
There you find the Close button, the Import button, the
Export button, and the Rest button.

The Close button is clicked to close the Customize
dialog box. You were doing something with aliases and
now you want to go back to IntelliCAD.

Let's first talk about the Export button. You have
created your own aliases. And now you want to save them
in a file.

Click on the Export button. The Select Alias File
dialog box opens., In it you can give the alias file a
name and select a folder.

The alias file can be saved in two formats. You can
save it in the ICA format or you can save it in the PGP
format. That's an AutoCAD format.

This is how these files look. I only give the first
five lines of each file. You can recognize the alias
and the command that's connected to it.


ICA file

[IntelliCAD Custom Alias File]

nAliases=247
[Alias-0]

Alias=3A

LocalCommand=3DARRAY

GlobalCommand=_3DARRAY

PGP file

; BricsCad Generated PGP file.

3A,*3DARRAY

3DFACE,*FACE

3DLINE,*LINE


Now the Insert command. You have created your own
aliases. And you have saved them in a file. Now you
want to use that file.

Click on the Import button. The Select Alias File
dialog box opens., You can now select your alias file.
It is opened and used.

All the aliases are generated by the IntelliCAD
program. They are not stored in a file. And now you
have created your own aliases.

If you want to go back to the way as generated by
IntelliCAD, then click on the Rest button. The aliases
you created are removed.

Aliases. As you can see. It has nothing to do with the
secret service. It has everything to do with
nIntelliCAD.

It is in fact a feature that is also found in AutoCAD.
Some users prefer to use the keyboard to start a
command. True. It's quicker.

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