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Keyboard and gestures ​

All of this is also in the app under Settings → Controls → Keyboard shortcuts.

⌘ on macOS, Ctrl everywhere else.

Editing ​

ActionKey
Undo⌘/Ctrl + Z
Redo⌘/Ctrl + Y or ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + Z
Place objects on the bedA
Select all objects⌘/Ctrl + A
Duplicate the selection⌘/Ctrl + D — the copies become the selection
Remove the selectionDelete or Backspace — undo brings it back
Nudge the selection 1 mm← → ↑ ↓ — hold Shift for 10 mm, Alt/⌥ for 0.1 mm
Slice the plate⌘/Ctrl + Enter
Put away a card, clear the selection, or put the tool downEsc

Esc closes whatever floats over the plate — the library, the placement card, the brush popout, the print-settings drawer — then works back one step at a time: it puts down the brush, pull-to-floor or Place objects straight away; with Rotate or Scale it clears the selection first, and the next Esc goes back to Select & move.

The arrow keys move the selection the way you are looking at it — → is right on screen, whichever side of the printer you're viewing from — one whole step along the bed's X or Y. A held key keeps going, and the whole run is one undo.

Shortcuts stand down while you are typing in a field, so they can't reach past your caret — that includes the G-code arrows — and the plate shortcuts only work while the plate is on screen. Clicking the plate hands the keyboard back.

The tool panel ​

ActionKey
Jump into the open tool panelTab
Back out to the plateEsc

Tab from the plate lands on the part of the card you actually came for — the X field with Move, Rotate or Scale, the brush mode with Paint, the Place button with Place objects, where Enter then runs it. From there Tab walks the rest of the card as usual, and Esc puts you back on the plate.

Object tools ​

ActionKey
Select & moveM
RotateR
ScaleS
Pull a face to the floorF
Paint supportsB
Brush size and mode, at the pointerShift + B

Press a tool's key again to put it down and go back to Select & move — B to start painting, B to stop.

View ​

ActionKey
Toggle gravityG
Zoom to the selection, or to everythingZ
Model ↔ G-code previewP
Orthographic ↔ perspectiveShift + Space

G-code preview ​

ActionKey
Next / previous layer↑ / ↓
Next / previous extrusion→ / ←

Number fields ​

Every numeric field takes more than typing:

ActionInput
Step up / down↑ / ↓, or scroll the wheel while hovering
Coarse step (×10)Hold Shift
Fine step (×0.1)Hold Alt / ⌥
Run up or downHold + or − — it repeats, and speeds up as you hold

Hover-scrolling is the fast one — you don't have to click into the field first. Holding works on a touchscreen too, and the preview's layer and progress arrows run the same way.

ActionKey
Focus the search on screen — the library's when it is open, settings otherwise⌘/Ctrl + F
Search open workplates⌘/Ctrl + Shift + A

Library and panels ​

ActionKey
Open or close the libraryL — over the plate when one is open
Close the libraryEsc
Dock or hide the print settings⌘/Ctrl + \
Move between models← → ↑ ↓, Home, End — ↓ from the search box drops into the results
Select a model / add itSpace / Enter

On the full library page:

ActionKey
Add models from files⌘/Ctrl + O
Rename the selected modelF2
Remove the selected modelDelete or Backspace, twice
Clear the selectionEsc

Workplates ​

The same keys as tabs in a browser — in the desktop and iPad apps.

ActionDesktop and iPad appBrowser
New workplate⌘/Ctrl + TAlt + T
Close workplate⌘/Ctrl + WAlt + W
Close all workplates⌘/Ctrl + Shift + WAlt + Shift + W
Reopen a closed workplate⌘/Ctrl + Shift + TAlt + Shift + T
Next / previous workplateCtrl + Tab / Ctrl + Shift + TabAlt + Shift + → / ←
Go to workplate 1–8, or the last⌘/Ctrl + 1…9—

A browser keeps Ctrl + W, Ctrl + T and the rest for its own tabs, and no page can take them over — so in the browser the same actions sit on Alt (⌥ on a Mac). Pressing Ctrl + W there anyway asks before the page closes while you have workplates open.

On a Mac, the desktop app also lists these under File in the menu bar.

Mouse ​

ActionInput
OrbitLeft-drag on empty bed
PanRight-drag
ZoomScroll
SelectClick a model
Add or remove one⌘-click on a Mac, Ctrl-click elsewhere — or Shift-click
Move a modelDrag it, with Select & move — no need to click it first
Select with a boxShift-drag — Alt/⌥-drag takes the box's contents away instead
Zoom to a modelDouble-click it — double-click empty bed for everything
Context menuRight-click a model, a workplate tab, or a list row — or ⌃-click on a Mac

In the objects list, Shift-click selects every row between the last one you clicked and this one, and double-clicking a row zooms to that model.

A ⌘- or Shift-click that misses every model leaves the selection alone, so building a selection doesn't fall apart on a slip. A plain click on empty bed clears it.

Touch and pen ​

ActionGesture
OrbitOne finger
Orbit or panTwo-finger swipe — pick which in Settings → Controls
ZoomPinch
Context menuLong-press
Move a modelTap it, then drag it
Add to or remove from the selectionLong-press a model → Add to selection / Remove from selection
Select with a boxTurn on Multi-select, then drag across the bed with the pencil
Erase painted supportTurn the pen over and use its eraser end (Surface Pen, Wacom)

With Multi-select on, the pencil draws a selection box while your fingers keep turning the view — nothing to switch between.

Palm rejection is on by default. Once you've used a stylus, a resting hand stops moving the camera. Turn it off in Settings → Controls if you don't use a pen.

Without a keyboard, undo and redo appear as buttons in the 3D view toolbar instead of shortcuts. They show automatically on touch devices; you can force them on or off in Settings → Controls.

On iPad, long-press opens the system action sheet rather than an in-app menu — it's the OS's own control, so it behaves the way the rest of iPadOS does.