Shortcuts & tips
Tools
- V
- Select
- L / P
- Connector / polyline connector
- R C D H T
- Rectangle, circle, diamond, hexagon, text
- E
- Generic device
- Esc
- Cancel / deselect / back to select
Editing
- Double-click / F2
- Edit label or text in place
- Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y
- Undo / redo
- Ctrl+C V X D
- Copy, paste, cut, duplicate (keeps connections)
- Ctrl+A
- Select all
- Ctrl+G / Ctrl+Shift+G
- Group / ungroup
- Del
- Delete selection (connectors of deleted shapes go too)
- Arrows / Shift+Arrows
- Nudge by 1 px / one grid step
- [ ] Shift+[ ]
- Layer backward / forward / to back / to front
Connections
- Drag port → port
- Hollow dots are free ports, filled ones are used. Only compatible ports highlight.
- Right-click a link
- Add a waypoint, remove one, straighten, reverse direction, edit label
- Alt+click waypoint
- Remove that waypoint
- Drag waypoint
- Reshape a polyline; orange handles reshape bezier curves
- Right-click a device
- Trace downstream (what it feeds) or upstream (what feeds it); everything else fades
- F
- Filter view: highlight signal types (video, SDI, network, power, …) or device types
View
- Wheel
- Zoom around the cursor
- Space+drag / middle mouse
- Pan
- Ctrl++ / - / 0
- Zoom in / out / reset
- Shift+1
- Zoom to fit
- Alt+drag marquee
- Select everything the box touches (instead of contains)
- Ctrl+S / Ctrl+O
- Save / open JSON
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