Keyboard Shortcuts

Here is a list of all the Keyboard shortcuts available in Event Floorplan Designer. These shortcuts cannot be changed, but you can create your own Hot Keys which work in a similar way.

F1 : Help

F3 : Toggle ‘Select Stands Only’ on/off - When switched on, you can only select stands.

F4 : Opens a ‘Mini Menu’ while a stand(s) is selected to quickly change some stand properties

F6 : Toggle ‘Angle Lock’ on/off - Locks mouse movements in 45 degree increments while drawing/moving an entity.

F7 : Turn ‘Snap’ ON

F8 : Turn ‘X-Y Co-ordinate’ ON

F9 : Turn ‘Distance / Angle’ ON

CTRL + A : Select all objects

CTRL + C : Copy

CTRL + X : Cut

CTRL + V : Paste

CTRL + I : Entity information

CTRL + N : Start a new drawing

CTRL + O : Open a drawing

CTRL + S : Save the drawing

CTRL + Q : Quit the program

CTRL + Drawing Tab : Pressing and holding CTRL while switching drawing tabs disables the Auto-save that may occur when normally switching tabs. This is useful for when you have to do a lot of copying and pasting between large drawings, speeding up the process of switching drawings.

CTRL + Y : Redo

CTRL + Z : Undo

CTRL + DEL : While stands are selected, this clears the stand Name and Stand Type.

CTRL : While adding multiple stand numbers using the Add Stand Numbers function - Press and hold CTRL while clicking on a stand to decrement the number.

CTRL OR SHIFT - Press and hold one of these to select multiple entities.

O : Border Orientation - While drawing or editing a View Border, press this to toggle the orientation of the border between landscape and portrait.

O : Symbol Insertion Point - While inserting a Symbol, press this to toggle between the insertion base points (if any exist).

U : Unlock Layer - Hover over an entity until the Yellow ‘Tool Tip’ box appears, then press U to unlock the layer that entity is on. NOTE: Will not work if layers have been locked using the Keep Locked function.

L : Lock Layer - Hover over an entity until the Yellow ‘Tool Tip’ box appears, then press L to lock the layer that entity is on.

R : Reset text on a stand - Click and let go on a Blue node that is attached to text, press R and the text will be reset. You can also reset text on multiple stands using the Reset Stand Text function.

Space Bar : Toggle Red/Blue nodes - Press this while a stand(s) is selected and the corner Red/Blue node will swap.

Arrow Keys : Move an object - While an entity is in ‘Move’ mode, press an arrow key in the direction you want to move the entity, a box will appear to let you type a distance to move the entity.

+ : Symbol Rotation - While a Symbol is selected, press this to rotate the symbol anti-clockwise in 45 degree increments

- : Symbol Rotation - While a Symbol is selected, press this to rotate the symbol clockwise in 45 degree increments

U : Undo last segment - While drawing a line, polyline etc, pressing this undos the last segment.

C : Close Line - While drawing a line, polyline, irregular stand etc closes the line.

X or Y : Point Filter - While hovering over a point on an entity, such as an End point, pressing X or Y will lock the cursor in the X or Y plane. Intellisnap also does the same.

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