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From the Vault

Originally published September 2003

Many with Multiple

Thankfully, AutoCAD 2002 stays in the Fillet command after you set the Radius. However, as in almost every AutoCAD command, after the command is completed, you're back to the Command line. Yes, you could right-click to invoke the previous command, or hit the spacebar, but have you considered the "Multiple" option for the ongoing use of a command?

Enter MULTIPLE at the command line and you are prompted with "Enter command name to repeat". Enter the command to be repeated and after the successful completion of that command, it starts again. This is great if you're going to be moving several different objects, adding several Mtext objects, erasing numerous groups of objects, applying the same Fillet radius to several corners (set the Radius to 0 to "fix" corners that don't meet), or any number of other procedures where you will be using the same command repeatedly.

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