Keyboard shortcuts: all hotkeys for files, views and selection

Every keyboard shortcut of MeshInspector 2.5.9 by group, for Windows, Linux and macOS, and how to open the list in the app.

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To see all keyboard shortcuts in the app, press F1, or click Show Hotkeys in Home › Settings (on the Quick or the Control tab). The Hotkeys window lists the shortcuts by group.

On macOS press Cmd instead of Ctrl, Option instead of Alt and Backspace instead of Delete. The tables below give both variants. Num keys are the keys of the numeric keypad.

The Hotkeys window of MeshInspector on macOS with the shortcut groups Info, Edit, View, Scene, Objects and Selection.

Files and scene

Action	Windows and Linux	macOS
New	Ctrl+N	Cmd+N
Open Files	Ctrl+O	Cmd+O
Save Scene	Ctrl+S	Cmd+S
Save Scene As	Ctrl+Shift+S	Cmd+Shift+S

Edit: undo, redo and delete

Action	Windows and Linux	macOS
Undo	Ctrl+Z	Cmd+Z
Redo	Ctrl+Shift+Z	Cmd+Shift+Z
Delete Selected	Delete	Backspace

Delete Selected deletes the selected area of a mesh or the selected points of a point cloud. To remove whole objects from the scene, use Remove Selected (see Scene tree and objects).

View and camera

Action	Windows and Linux	macOS
Fit Data	Ctrl+Alt+F	Cmd+Option+F
Front View	Num 1	Num 1
Back View	Ctrl+Num 1	Cmd+Num 1
Right View	Num 3	Num 3
Left View	Ctrl+Num 3	Cmd+Num 3
Top View	Num 7	Num 7
Bottom View	Ctrl+Num 7	Cmd+Num 7
Invert View	Num 9	Num 9
Toggle Orthographic/Perspective View	Num 5	Num 5
Toggle Global Basis	Ctrl+G	Cmd+G
Toggle selected objects visibility	H	H
Toggle shading of selected objects	F	F
Toggle edges on selected meshes	L	L
Toggle faces on selected meshes	T	T
Show Only Previous	F3	F3
Show Only Next	F4	F4

Selection

Action	Windows and Linux	macOS
Select Primitives	Ctrl+W	Cmd+W
Expand Selection	Ctrl+=	Cmd+=
Shrink Selection	Ctrl+-	Cmd+-
Clear Selections	Ctrl+X	Cmd+X

Scene tree and objects

Action	Windows and Linux	macOS
Select All	Ctrl+A	Cmd+A
Select Objects	Ctrl+Q	— (see the note below)
Select next object	Down Arrow	Down Arrow
Add next object to selection	Shift+Down Arrow	Shift+Down Arrow
Select previous object	Up Arrow	Up Arrow
Add previous object to selection	Shift+Up Arrow	Shift+Up Arrow
Rename	F2	F2
Remove Selected	Shift+R	Shift+R

On macOS the Hotkeys window shows Cmd+Q for Select Objects, but Cmd+Q is the macOS shortcut that quits the app, so it closes MeshInspector instead. Save your scene before you try it.

App and help

Action	Windows and Linux	macOS
Settings	Ctrl+,	Cmd+,
Search plugin by name or description	Ctrl+F	Cmd+F
Show this help with hot keys	F1	F1
Toggle statistics window	D	D

The mouse buttons that rotate, move and roll the camera are set in Settings › Control › Mouse; see MeshInspector settings.

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