Up for a challenge?...

Good morning all,

Ok, here goes... I am a "hard core, old school" AutoCAD user (15yrs)... I love using the keyboard, and have LISP routines and Alias' for everything...

...and this suits me just fine... except for one thing...

The beauty of the keyboard, is that I can enter most of my commands, with my left hand, while keeping my right hand on the mouse... what drives me nuts though, is when I want to enter a transparent command, I have to go out of the way (right side of keyboard), to press the {'} (single quote) key.

Has anyone come up with a way to either map a different key, e.g. the "backquote/tilde" key [`/~] to be a single quote, or some other ingenious method to invoke transparent commands without using toolbar buttons / menu items...???

Any ideas/solutions really appreciated!

Thanks

Steve

 

The only transparent commands I use regularly are my point filters. I made up
commands utilizing the keys surrounding the apostrophe, so I have 2-key calls for
those filters. '[ is .xy of CEN, '] is .xy of End, etc.

Not what you're after, but it was my easy solution when I asked the same question
years ago. HTH.
-doug

using the keyboard, and have LISP routines and Alias' for everything...

hand, while keeping my right hand on the mouse... what drives me nuts though, is
when I want to enter a transparent command, I have to go out of the way (right side
of keyboard), to press the {'} (single quote) key.

"backquote/tilde" key [`/~] to be a single quote, or some other ingenious method to
invoke transparent commands without using toolbar buttons / menu items...???

 

get ye a programmable keyboard.

much usefullness, besides just this one thing.

 

any suggestions on name and model? and tip for programming?


thanks, alex

 

any suggestions on name and model? and tip for programming?

I don't remember how, but I do remember using the dos ansi.sys to accomplish
this feat years ago.
Check -
http://www.delmar.edu/Courses/CIS415L/ANSIsys.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/ansisys.htm

 

http://www.ksikeyboards.com/product/pos/index.html
or
http://www.fentek-ind.com/spkbmck142.htm

i prefer the fentek, but current situations have me using a logitech
cordless, which has a handful of slightly programmable keys. it gets me by.

i find myself using the key programmed for the layer-state-manager the most.

you'll have to read the manual for programming tips.

pretty much whatever you want it to do (within the scope of a keyboard) it
can be done.

 

Hello, GTASteve!
You can generate the most convenient for you keyboard layout (e.g. swap ~ and ').
For Windows NT, 2000, XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
For Windows 95, 98, ME:
http://solair.eunet.yu/~janko/engdload.htm



You wrote on Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:10:16 GMT:

G> Good morning all,

G> Ok, here goes... I am a "hard core, old school" AutoCAD user (15yrs)...
G> I love using the keyboard, and have LISP routines and Alias' for
G> everything...

G> ..and this suits me just fine... except for one thing...

G> The beauty of the keyboard, is that I can enter most of my commands,
G> with my left hand, while keeping my right hand on the mouse... what
G> drives me nuts though, is when I want to enter a transparent command, I
G> have to go out of the way (right side of keyboard), to press the {'}
G> (single quote) key.

G> Has anyone come up with a way to either map a different key, e.g. the
G> "backquote/tilde" key [`/~] to be a single quote, or some other
G> ingenious method to invoke transparent commands without using toolbar
G> buttons / menu items...???

G> Any ideas/solutions really appreciated!

G> Thanks

G> Steve

With best regards, Anatoliy Kurgan.

 

Steve,

A software solution I use, which does the trick and more. QuicKeys at
http://www.cesoft.com/

I'm (mouse) left handed. The + key in the numeric keypad isn't much use to me. With
QK I alias the ' key there. So to enter a distance of 5'-2", I type 5+2 in the
keypad.

Joe Burke