Use the mouse and keyboard in tools

Use the following mouse and keyboard actions, conventions, and button mappings in most or all tools.

Mouse buttons

Creation, transformation, and editing tools use the same mouse buttons for similar functions:

Window Type	Mouse Button	Convention
Orthographic		Free across view plane
		Constrained horizontally
		Constrained vertically
Perspective		Constrained along X axis
		Constrained along Y axis
		Constrained along Z axis

Keyboard

Note:

If you are using single key hotkeys, you must press or click the prompt line before you can type tool input.

• To enter relative positioning mode, type an r before the 3D coordinate.
• To enter absolute positioning mode, type an a before the 3D coordinate.
• Separate coordinate numbers with commas or spaces.
• With most tools you can also use the arrow keys to “nudge” the object by very small amounts.
• With most transformation tools you can also use the arrow keys to “nudge” the object by very small amounts.

Pick while using a non-pick tool

In most tools, you can temporarily switch to picking geometry. While you hold , mouse clicks pick and unpick geometry.