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MellowCAD

Reference

Keyboard shortcuts

The keys MellowCAD answers: the drafting aids, editing and files, the window and the command line.

The keys MellowCAD answers, the ones an AutoCAD user already has in their fingers. A command is named as you would type it; its aliases are on the commands page.

Drafting aids

KeyWhat it doesCommand
F1Opens the help of the running command in a new tab, or these docs with none.
F2Command history
F3Object snap
F4Selection cycling
F7Grid
F8, Ctrl+LOrtho mode
F9Snap mode
F10Polar tracking
F11Object snap tracking

Editing and files

KeyWhat it doesCommand
Ctrl+ZUndo the last actionU
Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+Shift+ZMultiple redoMREDO
Ctrl+CCopyCOPYCLIP
Ctrl+Shift+CCopy with base pointCOPYBASE
Ctrl+XCutCUTCLIP
Ctrl+VPaste the clipboard into the drawingPASTECLIP
Ctrl+ASelect every object
Ctrl+SSave the drawing to a fileQSAVE
Ctrl+Shift+SSave the drawing to a file under a new nameSAVEAS
Ctrl+OOpen a drawing fileOPEN

Window

KeyWhat it doesCommand
Ctrl+1Show the properties of the selected objectsPROPERTIES / PROPERTIESCLOSE
Ctrl+0Clear toolbars and palettes from the screenCLEANSCREENON / CLEANSCREENOFF
Ctrl+9Command line

Command line

KeyWhat it doesCommand
Enter, SpaceRuns what is typed. With nothing typed it takes the prompt's default or ends the command, and with no command running it repeats the last one.
EscCancels the running command; a first Esc clears what is half typed.
↑, ↓With no command running, brings back the commands typed before.
TabCompletes the command name being typed; at a point prompt, steps through the object snaps under the cursor.
Shift+SpaceSteps through the overlapping objects under the cursor while selection cycling shows its badge.