Keyboard shortcuts

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
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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Action