Keyboard Reference

Mouse-click modifiers in Selection mode:

  • Shift: Hide by color.

  • Control: Invert selection state by color.

  • Alt: Select single object.

  • Shift+Alt: Hide a single object.

  • Control+Alt: Invert selection state of a single object.

  • Control+Alt+Shift: Disambiguate to select or hide by group.

Shift+drag: Creates a rectangle to hide objects.

Control+right-click: Shows a context menu to change the displayed data type.

Alt+mousewheel: First-person navigation mode.

Keyboard operations:

Key

Function

Backspace

Clear the current selection.

Delete

Deletes the current selection.

Esc

Cancel the current mode.

A

Show all.

D

Disambiguate to select or hide, by color, the object(s) the mouse pointer is hovering over.

G

Show the range dialog.

H

Hide by color.

Control+K

Skin the model.

L

Refers to the current selection: Shift+L = Hide the Selection; Control+Shift+L = Show Selection Only; Control+Alt+L = Zoom to Selection (the button in the View Shift control set).

O

Puts the mouse in Select mode.

Alt+O

Shows the drop-down menu in the tool bar.

Shift+O

Execute the default action.

S

Select faces by planarity for the face the mouse is hovering over.

Control+S

Toggle face selection by planarity for the face the mouse is over.

Shift+S

Hide faces by planarity for the face the mouse is over.

Also see the View Manipulation Quick Reference.