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Keyboard & mouse reference

Keyboard shortcuts are inactive while you are typing in a text field. The status bar at the bottom of the window always shows the interactions available in the current mode.

Tools

Single-click a toolbar button (or press its key) to use a tool once — it reverts to Select after one completed action. Double-click the button to latch it for repeated use.

KeyTool
SSelect
DDraw channel
PAdd point
CAdd component
RDraw region (where you press decides what you draw — see below)
IInsert vertex (only while a channel or region is selected)

One region tool draws everything, and where you press decides what you get: empty space draws a new region, inside a chamber draws a hole, inside a hole draws a pocket. Placing a vertex on a wall welds to it. The chip at the cursor names what the release will make, or why it will not. See Regions & compartments for the welding rules.

View

KeyAction
TabToggle 2D top-down ⇄ 3D orbit view
FFrame the camera on the selection (or the whole design)
EscClose the context menu / abort the current action / return to Select; otherwise step the selection out one tier

Editing

KeyAction
EnterFinish the channel being drawn / close the region polygon
Delete / BackspaceWhile drawing: retract the last bend. Otherwise: delete the selected vertex
Ctrl+ZUndo
Ctrl+Y / Ctrl+Shift+ZRedo
Shift (during a drag)Lock movement to one axis; constrain a dragged region to a square
Ctrl (during a drag)Invert grid snapping

Files

KeyAction
Ctrl+NNew design
Ctrl+OOpen…
Ctrl+SSave
Ctrl+Shift+SSave As…
F1Open the user guide

Mouse

InputAction
Left clickSelect (or apply the active tool)
Left dragMove the selection / draw with the active tool
Right drag3D: orbit · 2D: pan
Middle drag, Shift+right dragPan
Scroll wheelZoom, centered on the cursor
Right clickContext menu for the item under the cursor