If you do it via the menus, then in the cds.log file you
ought to see the commands (Skill) that did what you
said.
Then the trick is to get those same commands to be
executed when / where you want. You could enter
them to the CIW of course (but why?) or make a
bindkey.
Are you sure that your local or chosen cdsinit, cds.env files
are being invoked? Maybe your local CAD support weasel
(or your benevolent tools vendor themselves) changed the
init chain and what you used to have going on, is now just
deadwood.
A question is, does a SKILL snippet work as before if you
enter it in the CIW (perhaps with appropriate preamble, to
make it evaluate right)? If so then chase why it is not
doing the same, in the init chain.
Maybe your local CAD support weasel
(or your benevolent tools vendor themselves) changed the init chain
and what you used to have going on, is now just deadwood.