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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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can you copy and paste

can you copy and paste

depends wat u r trying to do
but u can duplicate by clicking on the item and pressing 'd'

yeah did that help

the color chart on my account dosnt show up HELP

@elliot0211 Is it only the color chart or also the group list? Make sure your browser is set to 100% zoom, at other zoom levels the right hand field of workshop can disappear!

I cant get my colors or any of the right side of the screens that shows the groups and colors on it. did i press something or how do i get it back?

I cant get my colors or any of the right side of the screens that shows the groups and colors on it. did i press something or how do i get it back?

@Vetter83, set your browser zoom level to 100%(Ctrl+mouse scroll or change in your browser menu). That will probably make the right side appear again.

is there a way not to get all these notifications on these forums

No, that's not possible at all. You get all notifications at the moment... including a new notification notifying you that I've replied to your post 😄

hahahaha lol thx bro u got this notification too

Happy to see the save shortcut. Will need to start using it ASAP. Lost about an hours work when the site froze then rebooted on me. Autosave would be a nice feature to add.

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Hello,
This is already existing. Go in the file menu and select "Recover Autosave".
It only works the next time you open your browser (reload the workshop page). If you reload it multiple times, it will be overwritten by an empty scene.

can we get a "G" toggeling the Ground plane maybe? 😃 and maybe if possible a finer grid overlay, something less visible on top of the normal grid size would be cool to toggle maybe sometimes precision thingy's. it would be cool to be able to actually see the finer transformation grid.

also, a way to control C (copy) a selection would be nice to have, to be able to copy a selection of bricks and paste from one workshop window to a new design in another workshop window, if possible.

@supcrow, You can toolge the grid size with Q(small, medium and large), I agree, it would be nice to actually see the small grid size when ground is displayed.

About ctrl+c to another workshop, there is a way to do this, but it requires you save a model. Make your selection of the parts you want to copy, invert the selection (I), press delete to remove all parts you don't want to copy, save as a new model. Now you can import you new saved model with the parts you selected to copy into any other mecabricks model.
Maybe not as easy as ctrl+c/ctrl+v but it works...

Also agree that "G" would be a good shortcut to toggle the ground on and off! 👍

thanks for the tips.

I know that you can show everything hidden with ALT H. But is there a way to only unhide a Single hidden group?

@mneilson1707, Yes! If you click on the gear in the group panel for the specific group and at the bottom of the menu choose "Show all" you will show everything in that specific group.

https://i.imgur.com/elv7Tab.png

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