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7. Key reference

Always availableFunction keys⌘ (Command) ※ on Windows this is CtrlThe Alias board: change the ⌘ shortcuts to suit your own fingersThe habits of EnterOnly in the 3D room
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Always available

Esc  one step back (let go, close a window, cancel)

U   undo (as many times as you like)

Tab  re-pick among overlapping objects / cycle snap candidates

E, Delete erase the selection

Space hold it and drag with the left button = pan

Function keys

F5  rotate the isometric face (left, top, right)

F8  ortho on/off (Shift = reversed while held)

⌘ (Command) ※ on Windows this is Ctrl

⌘A  select all  ⌘⇧A deselect all

⌘C  copy  ⌘X  cut

⌘V  paste (click where it goes)

⌘⇧V paste at the coordinates it was copied from

⌘Z  undo (the same job as U)

⌘S  save  ⌘⇧S save as

⌘O  open (DXF, DWG, PDF, JWW, STL)

⌘N, ⌘T a new drawing tab

⌘P  export to PDF

⌘K  the Alias board (see below)

The Alias board: change the ⌘ shortcuts to suit your own fingers

Open it from エイリアス (Alias) on the ribbon, 鍵 or KEYS in the Command Line, or ⌘K.

Every ⌘ shortcut above can be changed on this board.

  1. Click the row you want to change.
  2. Press the new shortcut just as you would use it (⌘⇧C, say). A shortcut you cannot press can also be entered by clicking the keyboard map.
  3. If somebody already holds that shortcut, it is refused on the spot and you are told whose it is: “そのキーは○○が使っています” (that key belongs to ○○).
  • The keyboard map on the board shows the current owners in colour: blue = somebody's shortcut / orange = a letter used by a single-key tool / pale = free. The ⌘, ⌘⇧ and ⌘⌥ toggles above it change which layer you are looking at.
  • 既定 (Default) at the right of a row restores the factory shortcut; 外す (Clear) leaves it with none. (Even with no shortcut, the ribbon and the Command Line still reach it as before.)
  • One job can hold up to two shortcuts (⌘N and ⌘T, for instance).

⚠️ L, C, A, D, O, U, E and F8 are single-key tools and lie outside this board (they cannot be changed).

⚠️ Punctuation keys (, . / [ ] and so on) cannot be used as shortcuts. Depending on the keyboard layout, the printed character and the physical position do not match.

The habits of Enter

  • An empty Enter sometimes means “carry on as you are” (accepting a row of dimensions, running a unit scale, keeping the last text height, and so on).
  • An empty Enter sometimes means “cancel” (when typing a name or a piece of text). The prompt beside the cursor tells you which it is, each time.

Only in the 3D room

Drag with the left button, or the arrow keys = rotate

1–5 = top, front, right, left, back  0 = isometric

PageUp / PageDown = raise or lower the extrusion height. Esc = back to the drawing.