{"id":11581,"date":"2021-08-31T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2021-09-08T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T21:07:40","slug":"have-you-tried-command-preview-in-autocad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/have-you-tried-command-preview-in-autocad\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Tried: Command Preview in AutoCAD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For this next installment of our <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com/blogs\/autocad\/tag\/have-you-tried\/\" target=\"_blank\">Have You Tried series<\/a>, we have another great time-saver that we are excited to share with you: command preview. 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