Keyboard shortcuts
The complete keyboard map — palette, command keys, files & tabs, views, selection, sketching and measure.
General
- ⌘/Ctrl K — command palette (search every command) · plain S does the same in an idle 3D view
- ? — the shortcut cheat sheet, listing the command keys live for the mode you're in
- F1 — Help Center (press again to close)
- ⌘/Ctrl Z / ⌘⇧Z or ⌘Y — undo / redo
- Enter — commit the open feature form (same as ✔ OK)
- Esc — back out one layer: tool → selection → pick/panel → close
Files & tabs
- ⌘/Ctrl S — save · ⌘⇧S — save as
- ⌘/Ctrl O — open · ⌘/Ctrl N — new
- ⌘/Ctrl E — Export ▾ (the format list for this document) · ⌘/Ctrl I — Import ▾; see Saving, opening & exporting
- ⌘/Ctrl T — new part tab · ⌘/Ctrl W — close tab
- ⌘/Ctrl Tab / ⌘⇧Tab — next / previous tab
Command keys (part mode)
Every ribbon button on the Features, Surfaces, Tools and Sheet Metal tabs also answers to a single letter — E Extrude, C Cut, R Revolve and so on. Each tab has its own letter set, so the same key means different things on different tabs; the button shows its key as a small keycap, and the tooltip spells it out.
- They fire only in the graphics area — never while you're typing in a field, picking geometry or measuring.
- They are non-committing: the key opens the form, exactly like clicking the button, and Esc backs out.
- Press ? for the full list of the ones live right now, and to turn the whole single-key layer off if it gets in your way.
- Assembly and drawing commands stay on the ribbon and in ⌘/Ctrl K.
View
- F — zoom to fit (outside a sketch; inside one F is Fillet)
- ⌘/Ctrl 1–7 — front · back · left · right · top · bottom · isometric
- Mouse orbit/pan/zoom follow your navigation preset — see Navigating the 3D view
Selection & editing
- Click — the single face, edge or vertex under the cursor · Ctrl/Shift+click — add it to the selection
- Alt+click — grow that pick along tangency: an edge takes its whole tangent chain, a face its whole tangent region — a slot's wall, a shelled interior, and through a fillet onto whatever it blends into. Also on the right-click menu and the quick bar as Select tangency. What you select this way is what Shell, Draft, Delete Face and Fillet open with
- Delete / Backspace — delete what's selected: a feature (3D view), entities (sketch Select mode), or a view/dimension (drawings)
- Double-click a feature — edit it · right-click — menu (suppress, delete, rename); see Working with the feature tree
Sketch
- Enter — finish the sketch · Esc — end the chain / back out a step
- A — mid-chain: switch line ↔ tangent arc; on rectangle tools: cycle the variants
- Tools by letter: L line · R rectangle · C circle · A arc · S spline · E ellipse · P polygon · F fillet · T trim · O offset · M mirror · D dimension
Measure
- Esc — exit Measure · Delete — clear the current picks
(Flat tree view toggles with the ≡ button in the Feature Tree header; renaming is in the right-click menu.)