Overview of keyboard shortcuts for the BlenderBIM add-on
I could not find any overview of the keyboard shortcuts available in BlenderBIM. But I've collected several keyboard shortcuts I thought it's useful. I thought it would be nice idea if users could add more keyboard shortcuts to this list to get a complete one.
Here's a small start.:
Blender
* ctrl + i -> invert selection
BlenderBIM
* you can hit Ctrl + P to aggregate your selected objects to the active object ( similar to blender object parenting),
* Alt + P to remove an aggregate ( no need to select parent here)
* Shift + A is add Object
Feel free to add more.
EDIT:
There is a wiki page now
https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=BlenderBIM_Add-on/Shortcuts
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sounds like a great wiki page. :)
@Coen this is very useful, also better in a wiki page
Blender:
* Shift + s -> cursor snap menu
* Shift + tab -> toggle snap
BlenderBim
* Shift + q -> calculate all quantities
It would be cool to have a "cheat sheet" like vim, emacs, etc ... :-)
I seeded one...
https://wiki.osarch.org/index.php?title=BlenderBIM_Add-on/Shortcuts
I think the shortcuts are the same as vanilla Blender. Any additional hotkeys are purely used in the tools, and the tools show you what the shortcuts are in the N panel.
@Moult yeah indeed that a list of hotkeys would be redundant for tool commands, but i think that it would be helpful also for other cases, for example like these:
Shortcuts are often context sensitive, let me summarise the ones above with context:
BlenderBIM:
When you have any active BIM Tool:
1. Ctrl + P: to aggregate your selected objects to the active object ( similar to blender object parenting),
2. Alt + P: to remove an aggregate ( no need to select parent here)
3. Shift + Q: Calculate all quantities, of all selected objects.
4. Shift + A: Add the active construction type shown in the Type Manager.
When you don't have an active Tool:
1. Shift E: Pie menu containing BlenderBIM quick functions ( this may need some clean up though at the moment ping @Moult )
Perhaps "Calculcate Quantities" and "Aggregation" should be available without having an active BIM Tool
@SigmaDimensions yes, i updated the wiki page specifying the context ... it can be improved, but at the moment is something :-)
I think also that if there are update, only the Wiki page should be updated, not this thread so there is only one list to look at.. what do you think?
@Massimo haha I didn't see the wiki page, I read in diagonal
After this starts to mature a bit, it would be nice to update the official docs with this.