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Summary of most important shortcuts and basic controls

Shortcuts and keybinds

Written by Sjaak Velthoven

In this article keybinds to the most important shortcuts and basic controls can be found.

This article contains infromation about the following topics:

Project panel interactions

Keyboard tools:

How

Content panel

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Close image pop-out

Shift + 1

Control + Enter

Control + Enter

Esc

Shift + 2

Space

m

Shift + m

Ctrl + m

Select multiple objects

Select a row of objects

Shift + 3

Control + left click

Shift + left click the first object then

Shift + left click the last object

Shift + 4

Show/hide last panel

Ctrl + Space

3D viewer interactions

Mouse 3D

How

Select component

Left Click

Select Multiple components

Ctrl + Left click

Move forward/Zoom

Mouse wheel

Orbit

Left click and drag

Left click clipping plane and drag

Pan model

Right click and drag

Middle mouse click and drag

Look at component

Double click

Options menu

Show all

Hide

Look at


Select intersecting

Select parent

Previous selection

Deselect all


Right click then left click

3D viewer Keyboard movement:

How

Move forwards

w

Move backwards

s

Move left

a

Move right

d

Move up

x | Delete

Move down

c | End

Turn/rotate left

q

Turn/rotate right

e

Look up

r | Page Up

Look down

f | Page Down

Look at

l

Reset (birds eye view)

0 (zero)

Back

1

Left

2

Front

3

Right

4

Top

5

3D viewer keyboard select:

How

h

Make translucent

t

g

Shift + g

Select intersecting

y

Select parent

p

Previous selection

z

Shift

Delete

2D viewer shortcuts

Mouse 2D:

How

Move horizontal

Left or Right click on green arrow and drag

Pan 2D view

Right click and drag 2D map

Zoom 2D view

Mouse wheel

Create from 2D

Create a new issue with marker

Right click then left click

Mouse 2D options menu

Document preview interactions

Mouse Documents:

How

Document options

Right click then left click

Pan

Highlight

Free hand

Free hand highlight

Free text

Insert text

Replace text

Keyboard documents:

How

Rotate the document clockwise

CTRL + SHIFT + =

Rotate the document counterclockwise

CTRL + SHIFT + -

Copy selected text or annotations

CTRL + C

Paste text or annotations

CTRL + V

Undo an annotation change

CTRL + Z

Redo an annotation change

CTRL + Y

Open the file picker

CTRL + O

Open the search overlay

CTRL + F

Zoom in

CTRL + =

Zoom out

CTRL + -

Sets the focus to the header

CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + M

Fit the document to the screen width in a small screen(< 640px), otherwiser fit it to its original size

CTRL + 0

Print

CTRL + P

Quickly bookmark a page and open the bookmark panel

CTRL + B

Go to the previous page

PAGEUP

Go to the next page

PAGEDOWN

Go to the previous page in single layout mode (ArrowUp)

UP

Go to the next page in single layout mode (ArrowDown)

DOWN

Hold to switch to Pan mode and release to return to previous tool

SPACE

Select the AnnotationEdit tool

ESCAPE

Select the Pan tool

P

Select the AnntoationCreateArrow tool

A

Select the AnnotationCreateCallout tool

C

Select the AnnotationEraser tool

E

Select the AnnotationCreateFreeHand tool

F

Select the AnnotationCreateStamp tool

I

Select the AnnotationCreateLine tool

L

Select the AnnotationCreateEllipse tool

O

Select the AnnotationCreateRectangle tool

R

Select the AnnotationCreateRubberStamp tool

Q

Select the AnnotationCreateFreeText tool

T

Select the AnnotationCreateTextSquiggly tool

G

Select the AnnotationCreateTextHighlight tool

H

Select the AnnotationCreateTextStrikeout tool

K

Select the AnnotationCreateTextUnderline tool

U

Close tooltip

X

Note: Keyboard document shortcuts can be bound to a different key in the Keyboard Settings menu of the document preview settings menu.

Browser shortcuts

As Catenda Hub is a browser platform it can also be used together with the shortcuts of your browser.
Notable shortcuts:

Keyboard browser

How

Open the previous page from your browsing history in the current tab.

This is similar to Ctrl+z in other programs.

Alt + Left arrow

Search in the words on a page

Ctrl + f

New incognito window (Log in with second user without being logged out from the first)

Shift + Ctrl + n

See here for browser shortcuts:

Internet Explorer

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