Keyboard shortcuts

The keys and mouse controls that speed up modeling — and where to find the full cheat sheet.

Shortcuts work whenever the editor has focus and you are not typing in a text field. On a Mac, press ⌘ wherever this guide says Ctrl — the editor accepts either.

Any tool, shape, generator, or panel can take a single letter or digit — not only the ones that ship with a key (M, R, S, X, F, D, and the modeling tools). A shape’s key places it; a tool that needs a choice first, like Mirror or an export format, opens where it lives. The Ctrl combinations are fixed. The cheat sheet reads your keys live, so it stays right after you change one.

1. See every shortcut at once: press ? or F1 in the editor to open Help, choose Keyboard shortcuts, and open the full cheat sheet. It always shows your current keys, including any you have changed.
2. Edit: Ctrl+Z undoes, Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y redoes, Ctrl+D duplicates, and Delete removes the selection.
3. Transform: M, R, and S switch the gizmo between move, rotate, and scale, X toggles world and local space, and the arrow keys nudge the selection across the plate.
4. Combine: Ctrl+G groups the selection into a union, and Ctrl+Shift+G ungroups it.
5. View and file: F fits the view to the model, D drops the selection onto the plate, / or Ctrl+K searches everything, Ctrl+S saves, and Ctrl+E exports an STL.
6. Camera: right-drag orbits, middle-drag pans, and the scroll wheel zooms.
7. Change a key in the cheat sheet: click a tool’s key, or Set key on one that has none, and press the new key. Search the cheat sheet to find any tool, or right-click the tool itself and choose Change shortcut…. The reset arrow puts one key back; Reset to defaults puts back all of them.