Keyboard shortcuts

Owned by Mira Gagnon
Last updated: Aug 30, 2023 by Pierre-Luc Gingras
1 min read

If you are on TAKEOFF and you want to know the keyboard shortcut of a specific action, hover your mouse on top of the tool you want the shortcut to, the keyboard shortcut will appear in parenthesis under the mouse.

Shortcut

Action

Shortcut

Action

1 or Shift+Q

New area takeoff

2 or Shift+L

New linear takeoff

3 or Shift+E

New counter takeoff

4 or Shift+M

New measure

5 or Shift+H

New highlight

6 or Shift+A

New annotation

7

Enable the rectangle mode

B

Continue a shape

Space bar or N

Add a new shape or continue the selected counter

Hold shift

  • In drawing mode : force 90 degree angles

  • In rotation mode : disable the forced 22.5 degree angles

  • In rectangle mode : force the shape to be a square

Delete

Delete an object

Escape

Cancel or stop the action in course (e.g. : stop the drawing mode)

Shift+W

Show/hide the template sidebar placed on the right

D

Activate/deactivate the panning mode using the mouse left button

Backspace (<-)

Delete last point while drawing

Ctrl+P

Print current Takeoff page

Double-click

Toggle the transformation mode on the selected takeoffs

Ctrl+C

Copy the selection

Ctrl+V

Start the paste mode. Note : holding the Ctrl button in paste mode allow multiple pasting

Numeric pad

 

+

Zoom in

-

Zoom out

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