Keyboard Layout

Move detail

Zoom+, Zoom -

View all

Cancel a function

Define detail

Redraw

Rotate view

Activate the Online Help

You can now immediately open the corresponding Help topic for the functions of the Ribbon and its expandable menus by moving the cursor over the desired function and pressing the F1 key.

Dynamic zoom

Show/hide 3-D coordinate system

Switch on/off indicating orientation of active Steel Engineering beam and alignment of active 3-D part in drawing (if alignment has been explicitly set) *

(* if activated in the Configuration Editor via System settings > Visualisation...)

Switch on/off Display of part coordinate system

Repeat last command

Views can be moved directly with the mouse using Drag & Drop. This behaviour can be changed by pressing the D key. After pressing the key, views are locked against Drag & Drop movements during the current HiCAD session. In this state, left-clicking the view frame and moving the mouse with the mouse button held down causes a rectangular zoom window to be drawn. Pressing the D key again changes this behaviour back again.

Activate 2-D menu Auxiliary lines

Copy image detail to Clipboard

Find part

Call start page of Online Help

Start script

Call Script Editor

Move 3-D coordinate system display (see F3)

Create new drawing

Open (load) drawing

Print

Save drawing

Save image detail / copy to Clipboard

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Variables memory

Create macro

Call macro

Save image detail / copy to Clipboard

Copy image detail to Clipboard

Add the selected part to the current part list. The part will be highlighted in a different colour (Marking 3 of the special colours in the Colour Editor). If the part is not the active part, the active part will also be automatically added to the part list.

Move detail

Call the 3-D part lists context menu. Here you can, for example, switch part selection filters on or off.

With some functions, a shaded preview is attached to the cursor for placing objects in the drawing. This is the case, for example, when inserting or transforming parts and when installing new parts in preview mode or when installing standard parts.

This preview can be temporarily hidden by pressing and holding the SHIFT key. This can be useful for performance reasons, for example, with complex models. When the key is released, the preview appears again.

This behavior can be reversed by a corresponding setting in the configuration management. There you will find the Temporary Placement Preview parameter under Visualization. The possible settings are:

• Hide with SHIFT key
  A placement preview is displayed which can be hidden using the SHIFT key as described above. This is the default setting.
• Show with SHIFT key
  No placement preview is displayed. However, pressing and holding the SHIFT key can be used to temporarily fade out the placement preview.

As long as no function is active, pressing and holding the SHIFT key automatically activates the element snap function - independent of the selected identification mode. Pressing the right mouse button while holding down the SHIFT key will directly activate the context menu of the corresponding geometry element. On the one hand, this gives you faster access to the context menus of individual geometry elements, and on the other hand, it is a practical way to find a feature in the ICN from within the geometry - especially for large and complex drawings.

Zoom by moving the mouse

Move View

Cut part/part selection & paste it at another position in the drawing

Switch on/off Display of fitting coordinate system

3-D processing plane

Show only active part

Show all parts

Standard axonometric projection

Glass model

Shaded without edges

Switch active part, scroll by lines

Scroll

Jump to 1st entry

Jump to last entry

Delete entry in a part structure

Select all parts

Copy part/part list to clipboard

Search

Paste part/part list from clipboard

Cut part/part list

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