Marking Menus

Marking menus are tool shortcuts that pop-up at your cursor position when you use the Shift + Ctrl keys and the mouse buttons.

You can choose between the following default marking menus configurations, which are based on Workspace, or create your own custom versions.

Switching between marking menus does not affect the current Workspace.

Tip: You can assign a hotkey to quickly switch between marking menus, including custom marking menus. See Hotkeys/Menu Editor.

Export Active

Saves the active marking menu to a .json file, which can be shared and later imported.

Import

Loads the selected .json marking menu file to your system. After importing a file, the marking menus appears in the list.

Marking Menu Editor

Use the Marking Menu Editor to add to, rearrange, or replace the marking menus with the tools you use often.

Options

  • Current - Displays the marking menus available in your Preference Profile. Selecting a marking menu from the list opens it in the editor displaying the current configuration for each button.

    Note: To save screen space, you can collapse one or two of the button sections to focus on just one.

  • Duplicate - Makes a copy of the selected marking menu. Use this option to create a modified version.

  • Delete - Removes the selected marking menu from the list.

  • Style - Choose what to display in your marking menus: Icon Only, Icon & Text, and Text Only.

  • Show Option Box - Turn on to display the option box icon in the marking menus.

Marking Menu Editor Workflows

Add items to a marking menu

You can add tools from the palette, menu items, or diagnostic shaders to marking menus.

  • MMB-drag an item from the Tool palette or menu and drop it onto the Drop to Add zone below the marking menu.

Add pullout groups to a marking menu

You can add pullout groups by dragging tools onto existing Marking Menu items. Add more tools to the pullout by dragging them onto the new group.When creating pullout groups, you must set the Style option to Icon Only. Otherwise, the existing item is replaced with the new tool.

  1. MMB-drag an item from the Tool palette or menu and hover an existing marking menu item until Create Group displays above the cursor, then release the MMB.

  2. Type a name for the new pullout.

    Add more items to the new pullout group by MMB-dragging them onto the new pullout.

Edit marking menu items

Edit marking menu items by renaming, assigning a hotkey, or choosing a custom icon for them.

  1. MMB-drag a marking menu item to the Edit icon. The Shelf Item Editor opens.
  2. Make the desired changes.

Remove a marking menu item

  • MMB-drag a marking menu item to the Delete icon .

Related page

Parent page: Preferences menu