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Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts

Keyboards and Mouse Shortcuts Overview

Shortcut

Description

DEL

Removes selected items.

ESC

Removes selections and closes dialogs.
Closing dialogs with the ESC key is the same as clicking Cancel.

Page Up

Moves the model window contents down
(the contents of the model window that are further up will be displayed)

Page Down

Moves the model window contents up
(the contents of the model window that are further down will be displayed)

Minus key (-)

Reduces the model by 10%

Plus key (+)

Enlarges the model by 10%

Left arrow

Moves the model window contents to the right
(the contents of the model window that are further left will be displayed).

Up arrow

Moves the model window contents down
(the contents of the model window that are further up will be displayed)

Right arrow

Moves the model window contents to the left
(the contents of the model window that are further right will be displayed)

Down arrow

Moves the model window contents up
(the contents of the model window that are further down will be displayed)

Ctrl + A

Selects all items

Ctrl + C

Copies selected items to the clipboard. This enables you to paste copied items from the clipboard into models/diagrams. If you paste items into  a model,  occurrence copies are created.

Ctrl + V

Generates occurrence copies of the selected items in the model

Ctrl + Shift + V

Generates definition copies of the selected items

Ctrl + End

Displays the bottom right pane of the window

Ctrl + F

Opens the Find dialog for you to search the entire database for items
(selects search box)

Ctrl + Left Arrow

Moves selected items to the left by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Up arrow

Moves selected items upwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Right arrow

Moves selected items to the right by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Down arrow

Moves selected items downwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Home

Displays the top left pane of the model window.

Ctrl + X

Cuts selected items and copies them to the clipboard.

Shift + Left arrow

Moves selected objects to the left by increments of one gridline.

Shift + Up arrow

Moves selected objects upwards by increments of one gridline.

Shift + Right arrow

Moves selected objects to the right by increments of one gridline.

Shift + Down arrow

Moves selected objects downwards by increments of one gridline.

F2

Selects the object name of a selected object for editing.

Shift + Page Down

Switches to the next tab from left to right.

Shift + Page Up

Switches to the next tab from right to left

Ctrl + Y

Redoes editing steps that were undone.

Ctrl + Z

Undoes preceding editing steps.

Ctrl + D

Closes the active model window

Ctrl + Shift + D

Closes all tabs and opens(switches to) explorer tab.

Ctrl + Left mouse button

Enables you to include individual items in the selection one after the other
or remove them from the selection.

Scroll the mouse wheel

Moves the model up or down

Ctrl + Scroll the mouse wheel

Reduces (scrolling down) or enlarges (scrolling up) the zoom factor of the model.

Shift + Scroll the mouse wheel

Moves the model to the right (scrolling up) or left (scrolling down).

Ctrl + `

Opens Explorer tab

Ctrl + 1,2,3......9

Window/Number: When you open models, the first nine models are offered
for activation in the Window menu. Press a number to activate the
corresponding model and bring it to the foreground.

Ctrl + M

New model

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