by Dent Cermak » Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:44 pm
The standard AutoCad acad.pgp file has D set as *dimstyle which is the dimension style window. If you wish to lose this hot key setting, you can reset D to your distance key. Open the acad.pgp file in windows explorer and edit away.
Change the line D, *DIMSTYLE to read D, *DIST. Now the distance command will be invoked by either D or DI. Or you can now reset DI to something else.[/b]
A quick word of advice. IF you have never edited a file like this before, or even if you have, FIRST save a copy of the acad.pgp file!! It's best to rename that file on the save to something like acadorig.pgp so you will be able to tell which is the original file. Stuff happens and this is a file that you do not want to lose.