Appendix A
Shortcut card
Every default shortcut, by menu. Print this page and keep it by your keyboard. On macOS, use Cmd for Ctrl and Option for Alt. You can change any shortcut in Window ▸ Preferences ▸ Shortcuts.
File
- Ctrl+Q
- Exit
- Ctrl+N
- New
- Ctrl+O
- Open
- Ctrl+S
- Save
- Ctrl+Shift+S
- Save As
Edit
- Ctrl+C
- Copy
- Ctrl+X
- Cut
- Delete
- Delete
- Ctrl+Shift+I
- Invert Selection
- G
- Make Component
- Ctrl+V
- Paste
- Ctrl+Y
- Redo
- Ctrl+A
- Select All
- Ctrl+T
- Select None
- Ctrl+Z
- Undo
View
- Ctrl+F1
- Collapse Ribbon
Camera
- O
- Orbit
- H
- Pan
- Z
- Zoom
- Shift+Z
- Zoom Extents
Draw
- A
- 2 Point Arc
- L
- Line
- C
- Circle
- R
- Rectangle
Tools
- E
- Eraser
- M
- Move
- F
- Offset
- B
- Paint Bucket
- P
- Push/Pull
- Q
- Rotate
- S
- Scale
- Space
- Select
- T
- Tape Measure
While a tool runs
| Key or mouse | Effect |
|---|---|
| type a value, Enter | exact length, size, angle or count (2.4, 3m,2m, 45, 5x, /5, 24s) |
| Backspace / Escape | edit the typed value / cancel the current operation |
| Shift (hold) | lock the current inference |
| Right Left Up | lock the red, green, blue axis |
| Down | lock parallel, then perpendicular, to the last edge hovered |
| Ctrl | copy (Move, Rotate), new face (Push/Pull), from the centre (Rectangle), about the centre (Scale), connected (Paint Bucket) |
| Alt | auto-fold (Move, Rotate), stretch (Push/Pull), overlap (Offset), pick up (Paint Bucket), mode (Plant) |
| the mouse | middle-drag orbits, Shift + middle-drag pans, the wheel zooms towards the pointer, a middle double-click recentres |