Keyboard shortcuts

This page is short because the application is short of shortcuts, not because the list is abridged — every key it handles is below.

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Application

Keys	Does	Where
Ctrl+Z	Undo	Workbench only — not on the case library or Settings
Ctrl+Y (Ctrl+Shift+Z)	Redo	Workbench only

These are the only two window-level shortcuts. Both are bound to the platform’s standard undo and redo sequences, so whatever Windows reports as Undo and Redo is what works. They are bound on the window rather than on one control, because the tree, the inspector and the viewport all take focus.

Log pane

The log in the bottom dock is a read-only text area with two handled keys.

Keys	Does
Ctrl+C	Copy the selection
Ctrl+A	Select all

Selecting anything stops the log auto-scrolling to the tail; it resumes when the selection is cleared. There is also a Copy log button on the pane, because selecting a thousand lines to copy them is worse than a button that does it.

Setup panel

The panel that opens beside the setup tree handles two keys while the focus is inside it. Escape in the viewport still means what it means there.

Keys	Does
Return, Enter	Accept the edit and close the panel
Escape	Discard the edit and close the panel

Table editors

In a table of rows — refinement rows, wave components, material tables — Return or Enter in a cell on the last row adds a new row. On any other row it does nothing.

Moving around without a mouse

Every control that can be clicked can also be reached with Tab and pressed from the keyboard, with one exception, given at the end. A focused control draws an accent ring; lists draw one round the current row, and only while the list itself has focus.

Keys	On	Does
Tab, Shift+Tab	Anywhere	Move to the next or previous control
Space, Return, Enter	A focused button, tab, chip, card or ✕	Presses it
Space, Return, Enter	A focused toggle or checkbox	Toggles it
Space, Return, Enter	The usage-data checkbox on the welcome dialog	Toggles it, unless the setting is locked by policy
Return	A value field being edited	Commits the edit

Controls that are unavailable — a greyed ribbon command, Apply on an operation that is not ready — are left out of the Tab order rather than stopped on, so Tab does not walk through a row of things that would refuse the press.

A few things only appear when you point at them with the mouse: the ✕ that closes a case tab, the eye and ✕ on a scene-tree row, the ✕ on a saved view. Each of those also appears while its row has keyboard focus, so Tab reaches it the same way.

The setup tree and the case library

These are lists, so they take one Tab stop each and are walked with the arrow keys, rather than every row being a stop of its own.

Keys	On	Does
↑ ↓	The setup tree	Move between rows
Space, Return, Enter	The setup tree	Open the current row’s panel. Locked rows are refused, as a click on them is
Arrow keys	The case library	Move between case cards
Return, Enter	The case library	Open the current case — what a double click does
Space	The case library	Select the current case without opening it — what a single click does

Value fields

Tab stops on the value itself, then on the table button beside it where there is one, then on the ƒ mode button. Arriving in a value field shows its hint — the text behind the ⓘ mark — which is otherwise a hover-only tooltip.

In a table editor, Tab moves from cell to cell.

Adding to a selection

Ctrl-click adds to a selection. The keyboard has no equivalent: Return on a scene-tree row selects that row alone.

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Viewport

One key, and the mouse. There are no keyboard camera controls.

Keys	Does
B	Toggle box selection. If no selection mode is active it turns on Solid first, so the key never appears to do nothing

The toolbar across the top of the viewport — how the model is drawn, what a click selects, box selection, and the section view — is reachable with Tab. On a button with a list behind it:

Keys	Does
Space, Return, Enter, ↓	Open the list
↑ ↓	Move through it. Options the case cannot use are skipped
Space, Return, Enter	Pick the highlighted option
Escape	Close the list without picking

Reset camera in the corner is reachable too. The orientation cube beside it is not, and is the one control in the application that is mouse-only: which face it snaps to depends on where on the cube you click, so there is nothing for a key press to mean.

Input	Does
Left drag	Orbit. Pitch is clamped to ±89°
Left drag, box selection armed	Draw a marquee and select what it covers
Right drag	Pan
Middle drag	Pan
Wheel	Zoom, clamped between 0.002 and 200 times the scene diagonal
Double click	Reset the camera — skipped while a handle is under the cursor, where a double click is two grabs
Left click without dragging	Select, or probe. See below

One button, three meanings

A left click that did not drag is read as a pick rather than an orbit by measuring the travel: more than four pixels is an orbit. Under that threshold, in order:

1. A geometry primitive under the cursor is picked by name — it is checked first because a primitive is nearly always drawn in front of the body it surrounds.
2. Otherwise, in the setup view with a selection mode other than None, the click selects. Ctrl adds to the selection; a plain click on nothing clears it.
3. Otherwise, with post-processing active and probing armed, the click probes at that point.

Selection is cleared when the selection mode changes, because an id means a part in Solid mode and a group in Face mode.