Keyboard accelerators or shortcuts



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Key Sequence

Action

ALT-F3

Single Step Simulation

SHIFT left-click on the NC Tab

Show ACL instead of NC code

CTL-SHIFTimage\btn-3dsim.gif

Continuous loop simulation

SHIFT right-click in graphics window

Dynamic viewing using current view mode

CTL left-click a viewing button

Allows you to stay in the viewing mode.

CTL-ALT left-click-and-drag on any toolbar button

Duplicate and move button around in toolbar

F1

 

Context-sensitive help

SHIFT left-click on an edge when filleting

Selects all edges of the face and adds them to the list

Middle-click-and-drag in the graphics window

Performs viewing based on the current viewing mode. Note that the mouse wheel-click-and-drag also performs this function.

 

SHIFT left-click image\new.gif

Brings up New Part Document dialog

 

CTL left-click image\btn-pickcurve.gif

Causes the warp status for that dialog to toggle

CTL left-click image\btn-finish.gif (in the New Feature Wizard)

Keeps the dialog up so that you can immediately create another feature.

Mouse wheel

Performs zoom

ALT-F2

Start Simulation and Pause Simulation

ALT left-click-and-drag on any toolbar button

Move button around in toolbar.

SHIFT left-click the Show button in the SCL dialog

Brings up a dialog that shows the attributes of the model selected in SCL dialog.

SHIFT left-click while clipping when Multiple Region is on

Removes the entire picked region instead of to the nearest intersection

Holding CTL while toolpath is being computed

Temporarily turns off Toolpath Computation Minimization. Toolpaths will be recomputed for all features even if that feature did not change.

CTL left-click on a column of any list box that does sorting

Activates the second level of sorting.

CTL left-click image\btn-pickcurve.gif

Temporarily toggles the Warp Dialogs setting

Double left-click image\shwcntr.gif

Activate centerline simulation without having to hit the play button.

CTL left-click image\btn-pickcurve.gif (while a feature is selected)

Toggles between simulation of the selection feature and the entire setup.

CTL left-click image\btn-next-tool.gif

Stops the simulation when it encounters the next rapid (in addition to the next operation).

CTL-N

New file

CTL-O

Open file

CTL-S

Save

CTL-P

Print

CTL-Z

Undo

CTL-Y

Redo

CTL-X

Cut

CTL-C

Copy

DEL

Delete the selected object

CTL-F

Find (text in a text window.) The cursor must be in a text window.

CTL-H

Replace (text in a text window.) The cursor must be in a text window.

CTL-A

Select all

CTL-V

Paste

ALT-ENTER

Properties

ALT-R

Refresh

ALT-F1

Centerline simulation

ESC

Stop current simulation

ALT-F2

Play (a simulation)

CTL-R

New feature

CTL-L

Center all

CTL-E

Center selected

CTL-SHIFT-P

Toggles perspective

Alt-1 (2,3,4)

View 1-4

ALT-L

Last view

ALT-SHIFT-V

Save view

CTL-SHIFT-A

Shade selected

CTL-SHIFT-N

Unshade selected

CTL-SHIFT-C

Unshade all

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