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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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You have 3 grid sizes for translation and rotation when you use the mouse (top toolbar on the right of undo/redo buttons)
Rotation: 0.5°, 22.5° and 45°

You can also do a rotation around the axis of your choice by typing:
R + axis {X, Y or Z} + value {e.g. 42.2} + ENTER
A yellow tooltip appears in the top middle of the screen to recap what you type.

Thanks!

How can you move the coordinate system with respect to your view? I mean, I can only zoom in at the origin for example, I cannot zoom in on any other point different from the origin. With Blender you can move your view with ctrl + scroll, is there a way to do this in Mecabricks too? The only other solution I can think of is to move your whole creation and place the region where you want to zoom in on in the origin... But hopefully there is a simpler way. Thanks in advance! 😃

How can you move the coordinate system with respect to your view? I mean, I can only zoom in at the origin for example, I cannot zoom in on any other point different from the origin. With Blender you can move your view with ctrl + scroll, is there a way to do this in Mecabricks too? The only other solution I can think of is to move your whole creation and place the region where you want to zoom in on in the origin... But hopefully there is a simpler way. Thanks in advance! 😃

Use right mouse click and drag to pan the whole scene, is that what you're asking for otherwise don't understand what you're asking for?
You can also select a brick/group and press numpad . (period), doesn't work for me though so i have to go through the camera dropdown meny and choose center, that makes the selected brick/group centered.

Wow, I am sorry, I did not know about the right mouse click 😮. But this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much!

Could you please add a quick safe shortcut (Ctrl + S doesn´t work in web)? 😦

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Added Ctrl+S to save.

@Scrubs
Delicious! 😋 Thanks a lot!

Hi Scrubs,

I was wondering if it is possible to assign a shortcut for search. I tend to use keyboard and search mostly so it will greatly speed up the design. Not sure if its only me who think moving between keyboard an mouse is unproductive.

However both 'F' and 'S' keys are already assigned so we do have a challenge to find the suitable one.

Thanks
Istaka Citi.

@IstakaCiti

maybe not, as 'L' is available - as in 'Lookup' - or yet the combination of 'Ctrl + F' the way it is used in many applications/programs 😉

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Do you mean that it would focus the search input field?

  1. ctrl+F
  2. type query
  3. Enter to validate query

Yes Scrubs, that's exactly what I am looking for. Thanks

@mestrini, I had same thought 'L' for lookup 😃

how come it's not working? 😦

#Scrubs 😛

my right hand menu disappeared how do i get it back?

Did you by accident zoom in or out the whole webpage(ctrl+mouse scroll somewhere on the page, but not in the 3D-window)? I managed to do that once and then the right menu turned black/disappeared.

How Can Put Lego Stickers to Parts?

@ComputerFan09
You can choose from the official sticker/print palette or send UV mapped textures of official stickers to Scrubs. You´re NOT able to add your own (custom) stickers to Mecabricks/on a Mecabricks part!

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