Every key the editor answers to, grouped by what you are doing, and checked against the editor on every build.
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Every key below does what it says in the editor today; the list is checked against the editor’s own key handling each time the site is built. On Windows and Linux, read Cmd/Ctrl as Ctrl. Keys do nothing while you are typing in a field.
Tools
Keys that pick a tool
Keys
What it does
V
Select
B
Draw walls
Z
Draw a zone
F
Place furniture and open the Items tab
P
Paint surfaces
M
Measure, with the measuring tool you used last
X
Delete by clicking
G
Sculpt the terrainOnly where the site tools are part of the plan: on the Business plan.
1
Work on the site1, 2 and 3 each switch layer and return to Select.
2
Work on the structure
3
Work on the furnishings
Esc
Cancel what you are drawing; press again to put the tool down
Selecting and editing
Keys for the selection and its history
Keys
What it does
Cmd/Ctrl+Z
UndoIn the middle of a gesture it cancels the gesture instead.
Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z
Redo
Cmd/Ctrl+C
Copy the selection
Cmd/Ctrl+X
Cut the selection
Cmd/Ctrl+V
Paste: the copy follows the cursor until you click
Delete
Delete the selectionBackspace works too. Deleting 10 or more objects asks first.
Cmd/Ctrl+G
Group the selection for this sessionA click on any member then selects the whole group. Groups are not saved with the home.
Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+G
Ungroup
R
Turn the selection 45° clockwiseSeveral objects turn together around their middle.
T
Turn the selection 45° counterclockwise
R
Flip a selected door or window to the other side of its wall
E
Open or close a selected door or windowWindows that open: sliding, casement, awning, single and double hung, and louvered.
Shift+Click
Add to or take from the selection
Cmd/Ctrl+Click
Add to or take from the selection, also in the Scene tab
Cmd/Ctrl+Right-drag
Turn the selected object by dragging, in 15° stepsAdd Shift to turn it freely.
While you draw
Keys that change a drawing tool as you use it
Keys
What it does
Shift
Change how the tool snaps: Grid, Lines, Angles and OffTap and release it on its own.
Ctrl
Make the grid finer: 0.5 m, 0.25 m, 0.1 m, 0.05 m, then round againTap and release it on its own. On a Mac, Cmd does the same.
Shift
Draw freely, without guides or angle snappingHold it during the gesture.
C
Switch between drawing a whole room and one piece at a time
T
Switch a fence between straight and curved
Alt
Place an item even where something is in the wayHold it as you click.
Shift
In paint mode, change how much one click paints
[+]
Shrink or grow the terrain brush
Moving around
Camera and level keys
Keys
What it does
Right-drag
Orbit
Middle-drag
PanOr hold Space and drag.
Scroll
Zoom
W+A+S+D
Pan with the keyboard
Cmd/Ctrl+Arrow Up
Go up a level
Cmd/Ctrl+Arrow Down
Go down a level
Cmd/Ctrl+K
Open the command palette
Editing a block
These keys work only while a block is open for editing. Blocks walks through each operation.
Keys inside block editing
Keys
What it does
Tab
Start or stop editing the selected block
1+2+3
Pick vertices, edges or faces
G
Move the picked parts
R
Rotate the picked parts
S
Scale the picked parts
E
Extrude the picked face
I
Inset the picked face
Cmd/Ctrl+B
Bevel, in edge mode
Cmd/Ctrl+R
Loop cut
M
Merge the picked vertices
D
Dissolve the picked parts
X
Delete the picked partsDelete works too.
A
Pick everything
Alt+A
Pick nothing
Cmd/Ctrl+I
Invert what is picked
Shift+R
Repeat the last operation
F9
Adjust the last operation
The editor’s own list sits under Settings, Keyboard Shortcuts, with a link back to this page.
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