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Keyboard Shortcuts Cheatsheet

Vectorworks Pro Keyboard Shortcuts and Commands Cheat Sheet

Stage beauty, landscape and high-end architectural design tools. Provides Vectorworks smart snapping, Drawing coordinate transformation and layer combination shortcut keys.

QToggle Snapping Grid

Switch grid snapping on and off with one click.

AToggle Snapping Objects

Switch geometric entity boundary snapping on and off with one click.

XSelection Tool

Activate the universal mouse selection tool.

2Line Tool (draw line)

Activates the standard line segment drawing command.

4Rectangle Tool (Draw a rectangle)

Activates the rectangle drawing command.

6Circle Tool (draw a circle)

Activates the circle drawing command.

Ctrl + HSend to Back (Move to bottom)

Change the stacking order of primitives and move them to the bottom.

Ctrl + FBring to Front (Move to top)

Move the stacking order of graphics elements to the topmost display.

Ctrl + Alt + CZoom to Objects

Scales the viewport to fully center the selected entities.

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Classic one-button tool switching system

In Vectorworks, Many numbers and single letters are assigned directly to drawing tools (such as 2 represents line, 4 represents rectangle, X represents selection). When using drawing commands, Press the keyboard with multiple fingers to achieve instant pen cutting without mouse clicks.