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For the past few years I have went in upon receiving each new yearly version of AutoCAD and remapped my F-buttons (F1-F12) to Snap to Endpoint, Snap to Node, etc. What got me started in that was the desire to get away from the annoying F1 Help button.

 

I am just now switching away from Civil 3D Land Desktop Companion (2009) to just the base Civil 3D (2011) and I am running into a problem with this. I can remap my buttons the way I like them but now that we have transparent commands (with the F1 button for help being one of them) I can't away from it trying to pull up the help menu every time I hit my F1 button. The difference now is that it tries to pull up the help for the active command (whether there's an active command working or not) rather than just the ordinary help index like it did in LDC.

 

I know the easy fix is just to get away from using the F1 button at all but it's not the answer I'm looking for. Is there a way to turn off or reprogram the help command entirely away from F1??

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A couple of suggestion if you hold the shift key and press the right button on the mouse the individual snaps come up.

 

We have the snaps programmed to a number eg 39 will set snaps to end mid cen int 99 is all on.

 

It just done through lisp defuns which are in Autoload.lsp

 

(defun C:39 ()(setvar "osmode" 39))

(defun C:99 ()(setvar "osmode" 99))

(defun C:8 ()(setvar "osmode" 8))

(defun C:59 ()(setvar "osmode" 15359))

(defun C:9 ()(setvar "osmode" 9))

 

Just set your osnaps to what you want then type osmode it will tell you the number code required. The keyboard number we use is really what ever you want, it could be "nod" only hicup is you need to do before command.

 

You can also do transparent osnap by picking the osnap button on the bottom of the screen in the middle of a command.

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I'm not really too concerned with programming the snaps as there are multiple ways of getting around that. My main concern was just to get the Help function mapped away from the F1 button so that it wouldn't accidently be toggled on.

 

However, have you ever fixed the problem and absolutely have no clue how you did it?? That's me this morning. I finally got the F1 button to stop bringing up the Help menu by programming a temporary overide to the F1 button in my CUI. I thought that fixed the problem. However, this morning just to test things out I deleted that temporary override and the F1 button still doesn't bring up the help feature. :shock:

 

I'm confused but at least I have the problem solved. Thanx for the help.

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Yeah, see this is what I've done for the last three versions I've used ('06, 08' & '09). However, when I went in this time in 2011 it wasn't sufficient. I don't know if it was the product switch from Civ3D Land Desktop Companion to plain Civ3D or if it was because of a change in the software from 2009 to 2011 but something wasn't working there.

 

I could still program the shortcut key to F1 which is what I was doing but it would not override the Help function. e.g. I programmed the F1 key to Snap to Endpoint and everytime I would hit the F1 button it would perform both the snap to endpoint and help function whereas in the earlier product versions the snap to endpoint keyboard shortcut would override the help function.

 

Still not sure how I got it resolved but at least it got fixed.

 

Thanks guys!

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