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 area of the toolbar 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.

• 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.

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