Keyboard shortcuts

Tool shortcuts are plain letters, the same on every platform, matching SketchUp’s defaults wherever SketchUp has one. Command shortcuts use ⌘ on macOS and Ctrl on Windows, Linux, and the web.

Tools

Tool	Key
Select	Space
Line	L
Rectangle	R
Circle	C
Polygon	—
Arc	A
Push/Pull	P
Offset	F
Move	M
Rotate	Q
Scale	S
Flip	—
Tape Measure	T
Paint	B
Orbit	O
Pan	H
Zoom	Z

Polygon, Flip, Protractor, Slice, Section Plane, and Edit Vertex have no default key, same as in SketchUp — reach them via the Draw/Tools menu or the command palette. On macOS the menus also display ⌘-combination accelerators beside the tools; those work too, but the letters above are the ones worth learning.

Commands

Command	macOS	Windows / Linux / web
Command palette	⌘/	Ctrl+/
New	⌘N	Ctrl+N
Open	⌘O	Ctrl+O
Save	⌘S	Ctrl+S
Save As	⇧⌘S	Ctrl+Shift+S
Print	⌘P	Ctrl+P
Close window	⌘W (desktop)	—
Undo	⌘Z	Ctrl+Z
Redo	⇧⌘Z	Ctrl+Shift+Z
Select All	⌘A	Ctrl+A
Select None	⇧⌘A	Ctrl+Shift+A
Invert Selection	—	—
Cut	⌘X	Ctrl+X
Copy	⌘C	Ctrl+C
Paste	⌘V	Ctrl+V
Paste In Place	⇧⌘V	Ctrl+Shift+V
Delete selection	Delete / ⌫	Delete / Backspace
Group	⌘G	Ctrl+G
Ungroup	⇧⌘G	Ctrl+Shift+G
Toggle Outliner (Model Info)	⇧⌘I	Ctrl+Shift+I
Toggle Materials	⇧⌘C	Ctrl+Shift+C
Toggle Components	⇧⌘M	Ctrl+Shift+M
Toggle Tags	⇧⌘T	Ctrl+Shift+T
Toggle Object Info	⇧⌘O	Ctrl+Shift+O
Next Scene / Previous Scene	Page Down / Page Up	Page Down / Page Up
Library	⇧L (viewport) / ⇧⌘L	Shift+L (viewport) / Ctrl+Shift+L
Settings	⌘,	Ctrl+,

During a gesture

These keys change what the current tool operation does. Each is covered in more depth in its tool’s own chapter:

Key	Effect
Esc	Cancel / step back the current gesture; or exit one editing-context level
Enter	Commit the typed value
Type a number/length	Exact value for the current gesture (no input box needed) — also works right after a commit, redoing what you just made at the new value (every draw tool and Push/Pull, Offset, Move, Rotate, Scale)
Shift	Lock to the dominant axis (Line mid-chain, Move, Tape Measure) · pin the drawing plane under the cursor before the first click (Line, Rectangle, Circle, Polygon, Arc; Shift again or Esc releases) · lock the axis/plane (Rotate, Protractor, Slice) · pan while orbiting (Orbit tool; can be pressed or released mid-drag, switching orbit and pan back and forth)
→ / ← / ↑	Lock to the X / Y / Z axis (Line, Move, Rotate, Protractor, Slice, Tape Measure); ↓ clears
⌘/Ctrl (held)	Measure without dropping a guide (Tape Measure) · turn off inertia for a precise, 1:1 orbit or pan (Orbit/Pan tools and middle-button orbit); pressing it while the camera is still coasting stops it dead
⌘/Ctrl (tap)	Line, Rectangle, Circle, Polygon, and Arc toggle Detached: the shape stays apart from the face or drawing under it (the cursor gains a +; stays on until tapped again or the tool changes) · Push/Pull toggles extruding a new object instead of changing the clicked one
Option (Mac) / Ctrl (Windows, Linux) (tap)	Move/Rotate cycles moving/rotating, then a copy (linked by default), then the other kind of copy (independent), then back to moving; the cursor badge reads +, + independent, or nothing, and it stays on until tapped again
Option/Alt (press)	Arc cycles how the arc closes: open · pie · segment
3x or 3/ + Enter	Right after a copy commits: multiply it into 3 copies / divide the distance into 3 (Move; x3 and /3 work too)
4x,3x + Enter	Right after a copy commits: a grid of 4 copies along the move and 3 along a second direction (an arrow key picks that direction)
Shift-click	Toggle each clicked object in the selection (Select tool); same for a Shift-drag marquee
⌘/Option-click (Mac) · Ctrl/Alt-click (Windows, Linux)	Add to the selection, never removing (Select tool); same for a marquee drag. On a Mac, Ctrl-click is a right-click, so use ⌘ or Option there
Shift + ⌘/Option-click (Mac) · Shift + Ctrl/Alt-click (Windows, Linux)	Subtract from the selection, never adding (Select tool); same for a marquee drag
Triple-click	Select a line’s whole connected shape (Select tool)
⌘/Ctrl-click	Paint the whole object instead of one face (Paint tool)
Double-click	Enter a group/component/object’s editing context; end a Line chain
Delete / Backspace	Delete the selection (any tool)

Flying

Hold the right mouse button in the viewport to fly (see Viewing your model). These keys mean movement only while the button is held, or while Camera ▸ Fly is switched on for a trackpad; the rest of the time they are the tool shortcuts above.

Key	Motion
W / S	Forward / back along the view direction
A / D	Strafe left / right
E / Q	Up / down
↑ ↓ ← →	Same as W S A D
Shift (held)	Four times faster
Scroll wheel	Faster / slower, for the rest of the session
Mouse or trackpad finger (Camera ▸ Fly on)	Look around, no button held
Pinch or two-finger scroll (Camera ▸ Fly on)	Faster / slower
Esc (Camera ▸ Fly on)	Switch Fly off

Mouse

Action	Input
Orbit	Middle-button drag (hold ⌘/Ctrl to turn off inertia for a precise orbit)
Pan	Shift + middle-button drag, or the Pan tool (H)
Zoom (to cursor)	Scroll wheel
Fly	Hold the right button; W A S D move, the mouse looks, the cursor hides until you let go