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Select any of the actions from the scroll menu, and assign a keyboard shortcut to active/toggle that action. Now I don’t suggest changing the defaults, but I have found that I’ve felt the need to add a couple additional keyboard shortcuts to my configuration.Ĭreate your own shortcuts by going to Window-Preferences-Shortcuts.

Sketchup comes with many preset keyboard shortcuts, but gives you the ability to change them or add your own. Subscribe to my YouTube Channel Custom Shortcuts This keeps the mouse in the modeling screen where all the action happens. Instead of using the mouse to select a tool from the drop down menu or the toolbar, you use your non-mouse hand to select it on the keyboard. It’s the same muscle memory that makes learning the keyboard shortcuts so beneficial. You just know where they are and your hands start typing away. You know what letters you need to press, but you don’t have to think about where the letters are. Think about when you type on the keyboard. The really cool thing about Sketchup, is that it allows you to create your own custom keyboard shortcuts so you can create an optimal interface to fit the way you use Sketchup. When you learn keyboard shortcuts and commit them to memory, your hands will “remember” what key to press instinctively. It is a way to make the modeling process more natural and artistic, as opposed to technical and programmatic. Listed below are the shortcut options in SolidWorks when using your mouse.Using keyboard shortcuts can save you a significant amount of time during modeling. Continue to press the key to cycle through all possibilitiesįigure 6: File Menu activated with Accelerator Key Mouse Shortcuts To execute a command, after displaying the menu, with Alt still pressed, press the underlined letter for example, Alt+F, then O to open a document.Īccelerator keys might be used more than once.To access a menu, press Alt plus the underlined letter for example Alt+F for the File menu.