Keyboard shortcuts

On this page

In the views
In Edit mode
Selecting
Move, rotate and scale
While drawing
Menus and the command palette

Every key CreaBIM knows. This page is made from the app's own menus and key list, so it always matches the version you are running.

Keys reach the views even after you click in a menu bar or the browser. Most keys act on the view under the pointer.

Tip: You don't need to learn these. Every command is also on a menu, a button or the right-click menu, and Ctrl+K finds any of them by name.

The keys below work in the views. Menu commands show their own shortcuts beside them in the app.

In the views

Key	What it does
`Home`	Frame everything in the 3D view
`.`	Frame the selection in the 3D view
`Ctrl`+`Space`	Show the area under the pointer alone, and back
`Ctrl`+`Page Up`	The previous workspace
`Ctrl`+`Page Down`	The next workspace
`/`	Show the selection alone, and back
`F3`	Snapping on or off
`Alt (hold)`	Suspend snapping while you click
`Shift`+`G`	Show or hide the guides in every view
`Alt`+`Z`	X-ray: see through walls, slabs and roofs
`Alt`+`F2`	Show or hide the trace reference under the view
`Ctrl`+`P`	The sheet in front as a PDF
`D`	Dimension (with nothing selected; with a selection, D shows or hides its live dimensions)
`T`	Tag
`Ctrl`+`[`	Fold the project browser to a rail, or open it
`Ctrl`+`]`	Fold Properties to its tabs, or open it
`Tab`	Object mode / Edit mode (with several things under the pointer: the next of them)
`Shift`+`T`	Tag all: every door, window, fixture and room not tagged yet
`N`	Note (on a sheet: text on the paper)
`Shift`+`A`	Add: find any tool by typing (with nothing selected; with a selection, all of its type)
`Page Up`	The previous sheet, or view of the same kind
`Page Down`	The next sheet, or view of the same kind
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`P`	Export sheets: all, chosen or this one, as PDF
`Shift`+`right-click`	Put the pivot cursor here
`F1`	Help about the tool in use (again to close)
`Space`	Flip the selected wall, door, window or section, or the wall being drawn; with the Object tool, turn the next object a quarter
`Shift`+`Space`	Flip the hand of the selected door
`Ctrl`+`O`	Open a project
`Ctrl`+`S`	Save
`Ctrl`+`Shift`+`T`	Next theme

In Edit mode

Key	What it does
`Num1`	Pick points
`Plus`	Divide: one part more (or a larger size)
`Equals`	Divide: one part more
`]`	Divide: one part more
`Minus`	Divide: one part fewer (or a smaller size)
`[`	Divide: one part fewer
`Num2`	Pick edges
`Num3`	Pick faces
`click`	On a corner: pick it (Shift+click picks more)
`drag`	Off the grips: pick the corners in a box; inside a hole: move it
`Del`	Remove the picked corners or hole, never the element
`Backspace`	Remove the picked corners, as Delete
`Double-click`	On a corner: remove it
`right-click`	On a corner, an edge or a hole: add or remove corners, make an arc, remove the hole
`Tab`	While dragging a grip: type a length
`Esc`	Cancel the drag; then drop the picks; then finish editing

Selecting

Key	What it does
`Ctrl`+`A`	Select everything
`Alt`+`A`	Select nothing
`B`	Then drag in 3D: select with a box
`Shift`+`click`	Add to the selection, or take away
`Tab`	Pick the next of the elements under the pointer
`Shift`+`Tab`	Pick the previous one
`Enter`	Open the selected element in Edit mode, or finish editing
`Double-click`	On the selected element: open it in Edit mode
`Del`	Delete what is selected
`H`	Hide the selection
`Shift`+`H`	Show only the selection
`Alt`+`H`	Show everything again

Move, rotate and scale

Key	What it does
`M`	Move by a base point
`G`	Grab: move with the pointer
`R`	Rotate
`S`	Scale
`Shift`+`D`	Duplicate and move the copy
`Ctrl`	While moving: leave copies behind, or snap to steps
`Enter`	Finish the move with the distance typed
`Backspace`	Take back the last digit typed
`Esc`	Step back, then cancel
`E`	Extrude the selected face or sketch

While drawing

Key	What it does
`Shift (hold)`	Keep lines square
`Esc`	Drop the clicks so far; again to go back to Select
`Enter`	Finish an outline, a sketch or a detail component
`1–4`	Slab, roof and shaft: Polygon, Rectangle, Fill room, From sketch
`L`	Draw straight lines (slab outlines and sketches)
`A`	Draw an arc (slab outlines and sketches)
`C`	Draw a circle (sketches)
`Q`	Rest on the point or edge under the pointer for its guide lines
`K`	Keep the guide line under the pointer as a guide

Menus and the command palette

Key	What it does
`Ctrl`+`K`	Command palette: find any command, tool or view
Arrow keys	Walk an open menu
`Enter`	Pick the highlighted entry
`Esc`	Close the menu