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Hotkeys

instead of selecting the menu item or clicking Next/Last Command
the toolbar button. For example, press the
Ctrl and Z keys at the same time to perform You can navigate a list of up to 100 recently
used tools using the Cancel Selection/
an Undo . Previous Command, Next Command and
Previous Command hotkeys. The tools in
Note: If a key or key combination is in use as this list are organized according to the order
a system hotkey, it cannot be used as a pro- in which you selected them during the
gram hotkey.
current program session.
You can specify the hotkeys associated with Cancel Selection/Previous Command,
Chief Architect tools in the Customize Next Command and Previous Command
Hotkeys dialog. In this dialog, you can are hotkeys only: they do not have toolbar
program hotkeys to activate tools and invoke buttons associated with them and are not
a variety of commands such as opening found in the menu.
dialogs, including Defaults dialogs.
By default, Cancel Selection/Previous
Number keys can be, and are, used as Command is assigned to the Esc key. This
hotkeys. Bear in mind that if a number key is command can be used to:
assigned as a hotkey, the corresponding • Cancel a current object selection.
number pad key will invoke the same • Cancel a current drawing or editing
command as long as it is not assigned to action that is in progress.
something else. The converse, however, is
not true: if a number pad key is assigned as a • Activate the previously used tool or com-
hotkey, the corresponding number key will mand if no object is selected or action in
not invoke that command. progress.
Create Hotkey List When cancelling a selection or a com-
mand, be careful to press the Esc key
A list of the hotkeys available to the current only once to avoid changing the currently
program user can be saved in .html or .xhtml active tool.
format.
By default, Next Command is assigned to
Select Tools> Toolbars and Hotkeys> the Shift+Esc keys. This command can be
Create Hotkey List to open the Save used to deactivate the current command and
Hotkey List File dialog, a standard Save instead activate the one that is next in the list
dialog, and create a hotkey list that can then of recently used tools.
be opened in a web browser window and
printed, if you wish. If you prefer, you can assign two different
hotkeys to the Cancel Selection and
Previous Command instead of one single
hotkey.

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