Keyboard shortcuts

Command search

Can't find a tool? Press Ctrl+K or click the magnifying glass in the “Help” area, then type what you are looking for: a tool ("fillet", "mirror"), a shape ("cylinder") or a command ("export", "undo"). Move with the arrow keys and press Enter, or click the entry.

• The search understands the English and the German word alike and ignores capital letters and umlauts: "aushoehlen" finds “Hollow”.
• Every entry shows the keys that do the same and the group of the ribbon it lives in, so you learn where it is.
• Entries that are greyed out cannot run right now, mostly because nothing is selected. They stay in the list so the search still tells you where the tool is.

The guide you are reading has a search box too, at the top of every page: type a word or two and it lists the sections that contain all of them, with the matching words marked. Click one, or press Enter for the first, to jump straight there. The page it opens marks every place your words appear and scrolls to the first one in that section; Esc or a click on a mark clears them.

• A shape's name adds that shape to the workplane, just like clicking it in the shapes menu.
• With an empty field the search lists the commands you used last at the top.
• The name of a body in your design finds that body and selects it, which helps in a design with many parts. Bodies only appear once you type.
• It works in sketch mode as well, with the sketch tools.

Your own keys

Any command of the command search can go on a key of your own: a tool you use all the time, a shape, “Center on workplane” or “Open the shapes panel”.

1. Open “Keyboard shortcuts” and click “Add a key” under “Your own keys” at the top of the window.
2. Type a few letters of the command and click it, or press Enter for the first one.
3. Press the key you want, alone or with Ctrl, Alt or Shift. Letters, digits and F1 to F12 can take a command.

A key the editor already uses, one the browser keeps for itself (such as Ctrl+W) or one of your own keys is refused, and the window says what it does. Click a key in the list to change it, the X next to it to remove it, or “Remove all my keys” to start over.

• The key runs the command just as the command search does. If it cannot run right now, mostly because nothing is selected, the status bar says so.
• Your keys show next to their commands in the command search and on the printed list.
• They stay in this browser, like the theme. A key for a sketch tool works in sketch mode, a key for the 3D editor outside it.
• While you type in a field, your keys keep out of the way like all the others.

Interactive Help

Cannot find where to read about a button or a field? Let the program take you there. Click the question mark in the “Help” area, or press Shift+F1. The pointer turns into a question mark, and whatever lies under it is outlined.

• Click a button, a field, a switch, a handle, a group of the ribbon or the title bar of a window. It does not do what it normally does. A small window opens instead, with the name of the element, a short summary of the part of this guide that is about it, up to two more places that mention it, and “Open in the guide”.
• The help is about the element you pointed at, not about the whole window around it. An element without a name of its own uses the nearest one around it; inside a window it falls back on that window's question mark.
• “Open in the guide” opens the guide at that section in a new tab. There the section is outlined in colour, from its heading to its end, so you see where it starts and stops.
• If the guide says nothing about the element, the window says so and offers “Search the guide”.
• Esc, or the question mark again, leaves the mode. On a touch screen there is no hover: a tap on an element opens the window straight away.

The window moves by its title bar like the other windows. The program finds the section by the name of the element - the label on a button, the name of a field - because this guide writes every button as it is called in the program. It looks it up in the same search as the box at the top of each guide page, in the language you are using, and runs entirely in your browser.

Selection

Clipboard

History

File

Grouping and visibility

Shaping the selection

Moving and rotating

View and workplane

Help

Sketch mode

Chamfer and fillet