Topics in this section

• PAGESETUP

  Controls the page layout, plotting device, paper size, and other settings for each new layout.

• PAN

  Moves the view planar to the screen.

• PARAMETERS

  Controls the associative parameters used in the drawing.

• PARAMETERSCLOSE

  Closes the Parameters Manager palette.

• PARTIALOAD

  Loads additional geometry into a partially opened drawing.

• PARTIALOPEN

  Loads geometry and named objects from a selected view or layer into a drawing.

• PASTEASHYPERLINK

  Creates a hyperlink to a file, and associates it with a selected object.

• PASTEBLOCK

  Pastes objects from the Clipboard into the current drawing as a block.

• PASTECLIP

  Pastes objects from the Clipboard into the current drawing.

• PASTEORIG

  Pastes objects from the Clipboard into the current drawing using the original coordinates.

• PASTESPEC

  Pastes objects from the Clipboard into the current drawing and controls the format of the data.

• PCINWIZARD

  Displays a wizard to import PCP and PC2 configuration file plot settings into the Model tab or current layout.

• PDFADJUST

  Adjust the fade, contrast, and monochrome settings of a PDF underlay.

• PDFATTACH

  Insert a PDF file as an underlay into the current drawing.

• PDFCLIP

  Crops the display of a selected PDF underlay to a specified boundary.

• PDFLAYERS

  Controls the display of layers in a PDF underlay.

• PEDIT

  Edits polylines and 3D polygon meshes.

• PFACE

  Creates a 3D polyface mesh vertex by vertex.

• PLAN

  Displays an orthographic view of the XY plane of a specified user coordinate system.

• PLANESURF

  Creates a planar surface.

• PLINE

  Creates a 2D polyline.

• PLOT

  Plots a drawing to a plotter, printer, or file.

• PLOTSTAMP

  Places a plot stamp on a specified corner of each drawing and logs it to a file.

• PLOTSTYLE

  Controls the named plot styles that are attached to the current layout and can be assigned to objects.

• PLOTTERMANAGER

  Displays the Plotter Manager, where you can add or edit a plotter configuration.

• PNGOUT

  Saves selected objects to a file in a Portable Network Graphics format.

• POINT

  Creates a point object.

• POINTCLOUD

  Provides options to create and attach an indexed point cloud file.

• POINTCLOUDATTACH

  Inserts an indexed point cloud (PCG or ISD) file into the current drawing.

• POINTCLOUDINDEX

  Creates an indexed point cloud (PCG or ISD) file from a scan file.

• POINTLIGHT

  Creates a point light that radiates light in all directions from its location.

• POLYGON

  Creates an equilateral closed polyline.

• POLYSOLID

  Creates a 3D wall-like polysolid.

• PRESSPULL

  Presses or pulls bounded areas.

• PREVIEW

  Displays the drawing as it will be plotted.

• PROJECTGEOMETRY

  Projects points, lines, or curves onto a 3D solid or surface from different directions.

• PROPERTIES

  Controls properties of existing objects.

• PROPERTIESCLOSE

  Closes the Properties palette.

• PSETUPIN

  Imports a user-defined page setup into a new drawing layout.

• PSPACE

  In a layout, switches from model space in a viewport to paper space.

• PUBLISH

  Publishes drawings to DWF, DWFx, and PDF files, or to plotters.

• PUBLISHTOWEB

  Creates HTML pages that include images of selected drawings.

• PURGE

  Removes unused items, such as block definitions and layers, from the drawing.

• PYRAMID

  Creates a 3D solid pyramid.