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Keyboard Shortcuts

This page lists the keyboard shortcuts available in the application, and how to change them.

Important

NEW FEATURE: Assignable keyboard shortcuts
Available in: Nightly builds or Releases greater than 2.4.2.

Shortcuts are grouped by the view they apply to, the same way the in-app list groups them. The same key can mean different things in different views: C is the cut tool in Prepare, the G-code window in Preview, and the circle tool while painting. Global keys are the exception — they work anywhere, so nothing else can use them.

Customizing Shortcuts

Every key on this page is a default, and almost all of them can be changed. Open the editor from:

  • Help → Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Preferences → Control → Keyboard shortcuts → Edit…
  • ? while a 3D view has focus, which opens the list on that view's page.

To reassign a shortcut, pick its row and press the new combination. If another shortcut already uses it, the dialog names them and only unbinds them once you confirm. Reset restores the default and asks the same question if that default is now held by something else. A shortcut can also be left unbound.

Only your own changes are saved, so a default that improves in a later release still reaches you.

A few rules the editor applies:

  • A Global shortcut must include Ctrl or Alt, or use a key that types nothing, such as a function key. A bare letter reserved globally would be swallowed in every text field. Space is the one exception — it opens the Speed Dial, and it is left alone while a text field, button or combo box has focus.
  • Shift and Ctrl are reserved as step modifiers on the keys that have steps: 1 mm and camera-space moves of the selection, and 5x slider moves. They cannot be assigned on top of such a key.
  • Some rows are fixed and cannot be reassigned: the mouse buttons, Esc, the digits that pick a filament, and the step modifiers above.
  • Keys are matched by position, not by the letter printed on them, so a layout that moves Q still triggers the same shortcut. Numpad digits count as their main-row equivalents. Punctuation means the character your layout produces, wherever it sits.

The mouse drag rows in the list are not keys. They show what each button does while dragging, which is set in Preferences → Control: Left Mouse Drag (Rotate by default), Middle Mouse Drag and Right Mouse Drag (both Pan), each of which can be None, Pan or Rotate.

Global

Available anywhere in the window, even while typing in a text field.

Key Action
Ctrl + N New Project
Ctrl + O Open Project
Ctrl + S Save Project
Ctrl + Shift + S Save Project as
Ctrl + I Import geometry data from STL/STEP/3MF/OBJ/AMF files
Ctrl + Shift + E Publish 3MF
Ctrl + R Slice plate
Ctrl + G Export plate sliced file
Ctrl + Shift + G Print plate
Ctrl + J Print host upload queue
Ctrl + 0 Camera view - Default
Ctrl + 1 Camera view - Top
Ctrl + 2 Camera view - Bottom
Ctrl + 3 Camera view - Front
Ctrl + 4 Camera view - Behind
Ctrl + 5 Camera Angle - Left side
Ctrl + 6 Camera Angle - Right side
Ctrl + 7 Camera view - Current plate
Ctrl + E Show object labels in 3D scene
Ctrl + P (Windows/Linux)
Cmd + , (macOS)		 Preferences
Ctrl + F Search
Space Open the Speed Dial
Alt + 1-9, 0 Run a speed dial favorite while the dial is open
Ctrl + Tab Switch to the next main tab

Design

Shortcuts for the Design tab, which is shown once the CAD feature is enabled in Preferences. The tab carries two key maps: while a sketch is open single letters drive the sketch tools, and when no sketch is open Shift and a letter drive the modeling tools. Both maps are listed in full in Design Keyboard Shortcuts; the keys below are the ones that act on the view and the document. The Design tab's keys are fixed: they are not part of the assignable shortcut set, so they do not appear in the shortcut editor.

Key Action
Home Isometric view, fitted to the model
P Show or hide the origin planes
A Show or hide the world axes
X Section view on or off
Page Up / Page Down Move the section plane, while the section is on
F Flip the section while it is on, otherwise lay the picked face on the bed
Ctrl + Shift + B Show or hide the printer bed
Ctrl + Shift + P Commit to Plate
Menu / Shift + F10 Open the offer menu on the current selection
F2 Rename the selected feature
Esc Clear the selection

Prepare

Available while the 3D view on the Prepare tab has focus.

Key Action
Ctrl + A Select all objects
Ctrl + Shift + A Select all objects on all plates
Alt + Left mouse button Select a part
Ctrl + Left mouse button Select multiple objects
Shift + Left mouse button Select objects by rectangle
Esc Deselect all
Ctrl + Z Undo
Ctrl + Y Redo
Ctrl + X Cut
Ctrl + C Copy to clipboard
Ctrl + V Paste from clipboard
Del (Windows/Linux)
Backspace (macOS)		 Delete Selected
Ctrl + D Delete All
Ctrl + K Clone Selected
+ Add instance
- Remove instance
V Toggle printable for object/part
1-9 Set filament for object/part
A Arrange all objects
Shift + A Arrange objects on selected plates
Q Auto orient all/selected objects
Shift + Q Auto orient all objects on current plate
Arrow Up Move selection 10 mm in positive Y direction
Arrow Down Move selection 10 mm in negative Y direction
Arrow Left Move selection 10 mm in negative X direction
Arrow Right Move selection 10 mm in positive X direction
Shift + Any arrow Movement step set to 1 mm
Ctrl + Any arrow Movement in camera space
Page Up Rotate selection 45 degrees counterclockwise
Page Down Rotate selection 45 degrees clockwise
M Gizmo move
R Gizmo rotate
S Gizmo scale
F Gizmo place face on bed
C Gizmo cut
B Gizmo mesh boolean
L Gizmo FDM paint-on supports
P Gizmo FDM paint-on seam
H Gizmo FDM paint-on fuzzy skin
N Gizmo multi-material painting
T Gizmo text emboss/engrave
U Gizmo measure
Y Gizmo assemble
E Gizmo brim ears
I Zoom in
O Zoom out
Mouse wheel Zoom view
Left mouse button Rotate view (set in Preferences)
Middle mouse button Pan view (set in Preferences)
Right mouse button Pan view (set in Preferences)
Ctrl + M (Windows/Linux)
Cmd + Shift + M (macOS)		 Show/Hide 3Dconnexion devices settings dialog
Ctrl + Shift + Enter Show/Hide wireframe
Tab Switch between Prepare/Preview
Shift + Tab Collapse/Expand the sidebar
F5 Reload the device page
? Show keyboard shortcuts list

Painting

Available while a painting gizmo is open: supports, seam, fuzzy skin or color painting.

Key Action
C Circle
S Sphere
F Fill
G Gap Fill
T Triangle
H Height Range
Esc Deselect all
Shift + Left mouse button Move: press to snap by 1 mm
Ctrl + Mouse wheel Adjust pen radius
Alt + Mouse wheel Adjust section position

Objects list

Available while the object list has focus.

Key Action
Ctrl + A Select all objects
Esc Deselect all
Ctrl + Z Undo
Ctrl + Y Redo
Ctrl + X Cut
Ctrl + C Copy to clipboard
Ctrl + V Paste from clipboard
Del (Windows/Linux)
Backspace (macOS)		 Delete Selected
Ctrl + K Clone Selected
+ Add instance
- Remove instance
V Toggle printable for object/part
D Auto Drop
1-9 Set extruder number for the objects and parts
Space Select the object/part and press space to change the name
Mouse click Select the object/part and mouse click to change the name

Preview

Available while the 3D view on the Preview tab has focus.

Key Action
Shift + G Jump to layer
Arrow Up Vertical slider - Move active thumb Up
Arrow Down Vertical slider - Move active thumb Down
Arrow Left Horizontal slider - Move active thumb Left
Arrow Right Horizontal slider - Move active thumb Right
Home Horizontal slider - Move to start position
End Horizontal slider - Move to last position
Shift + Any arrow
Ctrl + Any arrow		 Move slider 5x faster
Shift + Mouse wheel
Ctrl + Mouse wheel		 Scroll slider 5x faster
C On/Off G-code window
L On/Off one layer mode of the vertical slider
I Zoom in
O Zoom out
Ctrl + M (Windows/Linux)
Cmd + Shift + M (macOS)		 Show/Hide 3Dconnexion devices settings dialog
Ctrl + Shift + Enter Show/Hide wireframe
Tab Switch between Prepare/Preview
Shift + Tab Collapse/Expand the sidebar
F5 Reload the device page
? Show keyboard shortcuts list