Keyboard and gestures
All of this is also in the app under Settings → Controls → Keyboard shortcuts.
⌘ on macOS, Ctrl everywhere else.
Editing
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Undo | ⌘/Ctrl + Z |
| Redo | ⌘/Ctrl + Y or ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + Z |
| Place objects on the bed | A |
| Select all objects | ⌘/Ctrl + A |
| Duplicate the selection | ⌘/Ctrl + D — the copies become the selection |
| Remove the selection | Delete 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 down | Esc |
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
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Jump into the open tool panel | Tab |
| Back out to the plate | Esc |
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
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Select & move | M |
| Rotate | R |
| Scale | S |
| Pull a face to the floor | F |
| Paint supports | B |
| Brush size and mode, at the pointer | Shift + 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
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Toggle gravity | G |
| Zoom to the selection, or to everything | Z |
| Model ↔ G-code preview | P |
| Orthographic ↔ perspective | Shift + Space |
G-code preview
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Next / previous layer | ↑ / ↓ |
| Next / previous extrusion | → / ← |
Number fields
Every numeric field takes more than typing:
| Action | Input |
|---|---|
| Step up / down | ↑ / ↓, or scroll the wheel while hovering |
| Coarse step (×10) | Hold Shift |
| Fine step (×0.1) | Hold Alt / ⌥ |
| Run up or down | Hold + 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.
Search
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| 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
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Open or close the library | L — over the plate when one is open |
| Close the library | Esc |
| Dock or hide the print settings | ⌘/Ctrl + \ |
| Move between models | ← → ↑ ↓, Home, End — ↓ from the search box drops into the results |
| Select a model / add it | Space / Enter |
On the full library page:
| Action | Key |
|---|---|
| Add models from files | ⌘/Ctrl + O |
| Rename the selected model | F2 |
| Remove the selected model | Delete or Backspace, twice |
| Clear the selection | Esc |
Workplates
The same keys as tabs in a browser — in the desktop and iPad apps.
| Action | Desktop and iPad app | Browser |
|---|---|---|
| New workplate | ⌘/Ctrl + T | Alt + T |
| Close workplate | ⌘/Ctrl + W | Alt + W |
| Close all workplates | ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + W | Alt + Shift + W |
| Reopen a closed workplate | ⌘/Ctrl + Shift + T | Alt + Shift + T |
| Next / previous workplate | Ctrl + Tab / Ctrl + Shift + Tab | Alt + 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
| Action | Input |
|---|---|
| Orbit | Left-drag on empty bed |
| Pan | Right-drag |
| Zoom | Scroll |
| Select | Click a model |
| Add or remove one | ⌘-click on a Mac, Ctrl-click elsewhere — or Shift-click |
| Move a model | Drag it, with Select & move — no need to click it first |
| Select with a box | Shift-drag — Alt/⌥-drag takes the box's contents away instead |
| Zoom to a model | Double-click it — double-click empty bed for everything |
| Context menu | Right-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
| Action | Gesture |
|---|---|
| Orbit | One finger |
| Orbit or pan | Two-finger swipe — pick which in Settings → Controls |
| Zoom | Pinch |
| Context menu | Long-press |
| Move a model | Tap it, then drag it |
| Add to or remove from the selection | Long-press a model → Add to selection / Remove from selection |
| Select with a box | Turn on Multi-select, then drag across the bed with the pencil |
| Erase painted support | Turn 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.