Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts work anywhere

Press a key and it works, wherever you last clicked. There is nothing to focus first.

Two things keep their own keystrokes. A field you are typing into swallows them, so typing 25.4 into a dimension never switches you to the Circle tool; click away or press Enter and the shortcuts resume. The Import dialog holds them all while it is open.

Tools

Key	Tool
V	Select
D	Pencil chain
P	Point
L	Line
C	Circle
R	Rectangle
A	Arc, or toggle the next pencil segment between line and arc when a chain is in progress
E	Extrude the sketch: open the dialog over the drawing
Q	Revolve it instead, turning the profile about an axis
O	Offset a closed region of the sketch
W	New construction plane. W for workplane; P is the Point tool
B	Show or hide the constraint badges, the glyphs that say what holds what
F	Fit the view to the drawing. Moves the viewport, never the geometry
M	Arm or drop the measuring tool. Model view only
G	Arm or drop the move arrows. Model view only

A is the one overloaded key. Mid-chain it arms a tangent arc for the next segment instead of switching tools. See drawing with each tool.

Select modes

These gate what a click or a drag box may pick, in both the sketch and model views.

Key	Mode	Picks
1	All	Everything. In 2D points beat curves; in 3D an edge beats the face behind it
2	Vertex	Sketch points, and corners of the solid
3	Edge	Lines and arcs, and edges of the solid
4	Face	Closed profiles, and faces of the solid

Editing

Key	Action
Ctrl/Cmd + Z	Undo
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z	Redo
Ctrl/Cmd + A	Select everything drawn
Ctrl/Cmd + C	Copy the selection
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + C	Copy with constraints
Ctrl/Cmd + V	Paste, honouring how the copy was taken. Repeated pastes stair-step 10 mm each time
Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + V	Paste with constraints, whatever the copy was
Ctrl/Cmd + D	Duplicate, offset 10 mm up and right
Delete or Backspace	Delete the selection

Undo has gaps. See undo, copy and paste.

While drawing

Key	Action
Esc	Close the open command dialog; failing that, abandon whatever is half-drawn, clear the selection, close the context menu, drop the measuring, move and trace tools
Enter	End a pencil chain
Shift (held)	Lock the pending segment to the nearest axis and add the matching Horizontal or Vertical constraint
Shift + click	Add to or remove from the selection
Shift + drag	Add a drag-box selection to the existing one
Shift + drag a dimension label	Lock the annotation's offset to a straight bearing (the axes and the diagonals)

The 3D view

The Alt-led keys aim the camera, and they work only while the model view is showing. The plain letters stay with the tools above.

Key	View
Alt + T	Top
Alt + F	Front
Alt + L	Left
Alt + I	Iso
Alt + N	Square on to the active sketch's plane, or to the construction plane most facing you when no sketch is open

Alt + N keeps to the side of the plane the camera is already on, so it never swings the view through the part.

The panel separators

The edge between the viewport and either panel is a separator. Tab to it, and:

Key	Action
← / →	Move it 16 px. The direction that grows the panel is the one towards the middle of the screen
Shift + ← / →	Move it 48 px
Home	Back to the width it starts at, which is also the narrowest it goes

Mouse

Action	Sketch view	Model view
Left drag on empty space	Drag-box select (must fully enclose)	Orbit
Left drag on geometry	Move it, re-solving live	Drag a sketch point, if one is under the cursor
Middle drag	Pan
Right drag		Pan
Both buttons	Pan
Scroll	Zoom about the cursor	Zoom
Left drag on a panel separator	Widen or narrow that panel	Widen or narrow that panel
Right click	Context menu
Long press, 0.5 s	Context menu (for touch)

Not bound

There is no shortcut for Save, Open, Import, Example, or Clear. The 3D view's own keys are the Alt-led views above; the tool and mode keys still work while it is showing.