Keyboard shortcuts

⌘ is the Command key on macOS; use Ctrl on Windows and Linux. Shortcuts that use ⇧ need Shift held as well.

Canvas shortcuts are ignored while you are typing in a text field, an inspector input or the inline label editor — those keys stay local to the field.

Undo and redo are the exception, from any control you do not type into: with a tick box, a slider or a dropdown still focused after you changed it, ⌘Z / Ctrl Z undoes that change in the drawing straight away and hands focus back to the canvas, so you need not click anywhere first. In a text field ⌘Z / Ctrl Z undoes your typing, as it does in any other app.

Editing

Repeated pastes cascade, so copies fan out instead of stacking. A fragment containing a container (zone or rack) steps sideways by its own width instead of diagonally.

⌘B, ⌘I and ⌘U (Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, Ctrl+U) do exactly what the inspector's Text style buttons do — on devices, connectors and text blocks alike — and pressing one again clears it.

Selection

Tab steps through the page's nodes only once the canvas itself has focus — click it first. Everywhere else Tab is still the app's own focus order, so tabbing out of the toolbar moves between buttons as it always has. Locked and hidden nodes are skipped, and the walk wraps round at the end.

Moving

Labels and groups

Arrange

⌘B and ⌘F (Ctrl+B, Ctrl+F) on their own are still Bold and Find; only the Shift chord restacks. Forward and backward one step have no key — they are the inspector's ▲ and ▼. The two painter chords call the same Copy and Paint the buttons do, so they carry the same look and say the same things when there is nothing to paint.

Tools

Every tool key is a toggle, as C is (V is the exception: it only ever puts things away): press it once to arm the tool, press it again — or Escape — to put it away. Each key is printed in its own tooltip, so a tool tells you its letter. Typed into a search box, a name field or a label, these are ordinary letters and no tool moves.

View

⇧1 is the same button as Fit diagram to window, and it is matched on the physical key, so it holds on any keyboard layout. The minimap toggle, isometric view and the quarter-turn rotate are toolbar buttons — they have no keyboard shortcut.

Files

Find

Help

Menus and dialogs

Every dialog closes on Escape as well — Objects, the icon library, Document info, the optics report, the cable schedule, Revisions and the rest — so Escape is always the way back out of whatever is in front of you. On the canvas it means something else again: see Escape.