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## Global
Ctrl + S - Save
Ctrl + Z - Undo
Ctrl + Y - Redo

## Viewport and Graph Panel
A - Select all / Deselect all
B - Start box select tool. Elements in the box will be added to the selection. Press shift to remove them
C - Take viewport screenshot
D - Clone selection
E - Show/Hide empty panel
F - Flexible Part Tool (only active for flexible parts like rubber band, flex tube, etc.)
H - Hide selection
ALT + H - Show everything
I - Invert selection
J - Group selection
Alt + J - Ungroup selection
L - Show/Hide lamp panel
M - Toggle between translation and rotation gizmo
P - Select pivot point
Q - Toggle between small, medium and large transformation grid
R + (X or Y or Z) + numerical value - Rotation along selected axis in the global or local space
S - Select snap point
T + (X or Y or Z) + numerical value - Translation along selected axis in the global or local space
V - Toggle between Global and Local Space
W - Display selection tools
Z - Toggle between shaded, shaded with edges and wireframe mode

CTRL + Left Click - Add or remove element to or from the selection

NUMPAD 8 or 2 - Translate along Z axis
NUMPAD 4 or 6 - Translate along X axis
Page Up or Page Down - Translate along Y axis

← or → - Rotate selection 45° along Y axis
↑ or ↓ - Rotate selection 45° along X axis
Home or End - Rotate selection 45° along Z axis (keys next to page up and page down keys on an apple keyboard)

Esc - Deactivate selected tool / Cancel rotation or translation
Ctrl + Click - Add or remove a part/group to the selection

Numpad 5 - Toggle between Perspective and Orthographic projection
Numpad 9 - Toggle between Turntable and Trackball orbit style
Numpad 0 - Reset the position of the camera
Ctrl + Numpad 3 - Left view
Numpad 3 - Right view
Ctrl + Numpad 1 - Back view
Numpad 1 - Front view
Ctrl + Numpad 7 - Bottom view
Numpad 7 - Top view
Numpad . - Center selection or scene
Space - Change camera orientation

Del or Bak - Delete selection

Flexible Tool

B - Box select: add to selection
B + Ctrl - Box select: remove from selection
I - Inverse selection
A - Select all / Deselect all
Click + Ctrl - Add / Remove Anchor point to / from selection
E - Extrude first or last anchor points
D - Divide curve joining two anchor points
DEL or BAK - Delete anchor points
S - Snap anchor point or solid part selected

## Animation Editor
A - Select all nodes
B - Start box select
Ctrl + C - Copy selected nodes
D - Duplicate selected nodes
G - Move selected nodes
I - Invert node selection
Ctrl + V - Paste nodes previously copied

Numpad . - Center selection
Numpad 0 - Reset diagram position
Numpad 1 - Reset diagram zoom

Del or Bak - Delete selected nodes

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How do i bend a flexible peace like a tube?

Flex Tool
https://i.ibb.co/LrnbVw1/Flex-Tool.png

In Minecraft, there is a Command that will place a layer of blocks to cover the distance between the two Coordinates that you entered. I am building a very big project, and duplicating every single block is taking a lot of time. Is there a tool that can do this? If yes, then I would love to know about it.
Thanks!

No, but you can simply duplicate a block by pressing d.

Yeah that's what I was doing, but even that is taking a long time. Thanks anyway.

Why did my message get deleted.

What were they?

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This is not a chat room. If the messages are not related to the topic they are deleted.

Não sei como girar as peças!

Arrow keys

Hi! Is it possible to select a lot of pieces at the same time, to copy a construction for example?

Hi Santiago_1d, if you create the part that you need in a separate Workshop project, you can Import it, and it will be completely one piece. Then, when you press D to duplicate it, then the item that you imported will copy and become one entire piece. If you accidentally click on the grid and let go of the piece, go to the small box that shows all the pieces that you inserted and look for the item you imported. When you find the imported item, click on it and it will be selected as one entire piece.
Hope this helps!

In addition to AirCanada's advice, you can also use the Group function [J] or the first folder icon in the left sidebar. First, multi-select the pieces using [Ctrl] or use the select tool (arrow icon - first on the left sidebar). Then group them. Like AirCanada said, if you click on the group name in the Graph tab on the right, it will select the entire group. This also works for any assembly like a minifig upper or lower, which are pre-grouped. If you want the parts to stay locked when you click on any of them, you can do that too. Once your parts are grouped, you can lock them using the lock icon next to the group name in the Graph tab or by ticking the checkbox under the group name in the Object tab. So there are many ways of getting this done. Choose one that works for you.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50879906682_a6c1c33af7_o.png

Hi B1, thanks for the advice, and I really appreciate it. Question about this though. How do you add different pieces to a group. I'm making a MOC that has tons of Clone Troopers, and I want to find a way to make the ENTIRE Clone Trooper minifig one group.

This topic really deserves a video to do it justice, because there are so many intricacies in grouping objects. Here's a quick method using the Graph Tab

  • Select the parts (or groups) you want in a new group by clicking on their name in the Graph Tab.
  • Use [Shift] and/or [Ctrl] to get the correct collection of parts.
  • Hit [J] on the keyboard to group the parts
  • To stay organized, rename the group in the Object Tab directly below the Graph Tab

If you do it this way, you will retain the previous structure for the Upper.

You can also select the parts directly by clicking on them and holding [Ctrl] to select multiple parts before grouping them. If you do this with previously grouped parts, like the Upper, all of the parts will be moved to a new group, but the old group folders won't get deleted. If you open the old folders, they will be empty, because all of your parts are now in that new group. There is a way around this. If you lock the group first then selecting a part by clicking on it will select the group itself.

If you want to move a part (or group) around to another group, you can drag and drop them in the graph view.

If you are on a touchscreen, then none of the keyboard shortcuts will work. You need to use the Select Tool (top icon on the left sidebar) to multi-select your parts and the Group Tool (Folder with arrow pointing into it, 6th icon in the left sidebar) to group the parts. Again, if you want to keep your previous folder structure, lock your groups before you select a part. I don't think you can do the drag-and-drop on the touchscreen though.

Hopefully this is helpful.

Thank you B1!

Happy to help!

@scrubs my message was relating to air Canada not know how to duplicate so i responded and my message got deleted.

how do I increase the size of an object or is that possible???

I don't think that it's possible to increase the size. Then again, I'm not an expert on Mecabricks, so maybe it is possible and I just don't know how or something.

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