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.
Switch grid snapping on and off with one click.
Switch geometric entity boundary snapping on and off with one click.
Activate the universal mouse selection tool.
Activates the standard line segment drawing command.
Activates the rectangle drawing command.
Activates the circle drawing command.
Change the stacking order of primitives and move them to the bottom.
Move the stacking order of graphics elements to the topmost display.
Scales the viewport to fully center the selected entities.
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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.
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