Ron's Brain Dump

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Note, these are Vectric Aspire v11 key-mappings; not sure if they apply to older or newer versions.

# Quick Keys
Various values can be typed in while dragging out shapes. In most cases, the left mouse button must be pressed in order to input a value (i.e.dragging to create a circle, dragging a vector to move it, or dragging one of the rotating/scaling points around a vector to rotate/scale it).

The exception to this is the polyline tool and the arc tool. Once the first point is entered the Quick Keys can be used without having to depress the left mouse key. Entering values defines the next end-point.

## Space
Pressing Space re-opens the last vector creation form you used. This is very useful when using other forms in between each shape / text / dimension you create

# General Shortcut Keys
| Ctrl + A | Select All vectors |
| Esc | Deselect all vectors |
| Select Right to Left | Selects all vectors inside and touching selection rectangle |
| Select Left to Right | Only selects vectors fully inside selection rectangle |
| N | Toggles between Selection and Node Editing modes |
| Esc | Switches to Selection Mode (exits Node editing or Transform mode) |
| T | Opens the Scale form for Transforming the vectors. |
| M | Opens the Move form |
| R | Opens the Rotate form |
| J | Opens the Join Vectors form |
| 9 | Rotates selected object 45° counterclockwise |
| 0 | Rotates selected object 45° clockwise |
| Esc | Exits vector drawing and editing tools and closes the data entry form |
| Right mouse click | Exits vector drawing and editing tools and closes the data entry form |
| Space-bar | Re-opens the last vector creation form you used. |
| Z | Zoom - click top left and bottom right corners to zoom |
| Esc | Exits zoom mode returning to Selection mode |
| Ctrl + F | Zoom to fit Job |
| F | Zoom to fit Material |
| F6 | Zoom to fit Material |
| F1 | Opens the Help File |
| F2 | Opens the 2D Drawing window |
| F3 | Opens the 3D Preview window |
| F4 | Opens the Snap Settings form |
| F5 | Refreshes the 2D window |
| F6 | Scales 2D view to fit material |
| F9 | Center selected object in view |
| F10 | Opens the Alignment Tools form |
| Right mouse click | Opens context sensitive menus |
| Ctrl + Z | Edit Undo |
| Ctrl + Y | Edit Redo |
| Ctrl + C | Copy the selected vectors |
| Ctrl + V | Paste the selected vectors |
| Ctrl and Drag | Pastes a copy of the selected vectors each time the left mouse button is released. |
| Ctrl + X | Cut the selected vectors |
| Alt and Drag | Moves the object either horizontally or vertically aligned with its original position |
| Ctrl + Alt and Drag | Creates a copy of the original object horizontally or vertically aligned to its original position |
| Ctrl + N | Create New file |
| Ctrl + O | Open an Existing file |
| Ctrl + S | Save file |
| Ctrl + I | Import file |
| Page Up | Vertically tiles the 2D View and the 3D View window so you can see them both simultaneously. |
| Page Down | Horizontally tiles the 2D View and the 3D View window so you can see them both simultaneously. |
| Ctrl + M | Opens Measure tool form |

## Tab Navigation
| F11 | Toggle Drawing Tab on |
| F12 | Toggle Toolpath Tab on |
| Ctrl + L | Opens the Layers Tab |
| Ctrl + D | Opens the Drawing Tab |
| F8 | Toggles between the Drawing and Modeling Tab |

## Double Sided Job Setup
| 1 | Toggle Top Side on |
| 2 | Toggle Bottom Side on |
| = | Toggle Multi-Sided View on |

## Mirror
| H | Mirror Horizontally |
| Ctrl + H | Create Mirror Copy Horizontally |
| Shift + H | Mirror Horizontally, around center of material |
| Ctrl + Shift + H | Create Mirror Copy Horizontally, around center of material |
| V | Mirror Vertically |
| Shift + V | Mirror Vertically, around center of material |
| Ctrl + Shift + V | Create Mirror Copy Vertically, around center of material |

## Alignment
| F9 | Moves selected object to the center of the material |
| F10 | Opens the Alignment Tools form |

## Groups
| G | Group the selected objects |
| U | Ungroup the selected objects to their original layers, sub-groups remain grouped. |
| Ctrl + U | Ungroup the selected objects to the group's layer, sub-groups remain grouped. |
| Shift + U | 'Deep' ungroup the selected objects to their original layers. Sub-groups are also ungrouped. |
| Ctrl + Shift + U | 'Deep' ungroup the selected objects to the group's layer. Sub-groups are also ungrouped. |

## Arrow Keys

Nudge selected vectors using the Arrow keys.

| Hold Ctrl | Reduce the nudge distance |
| Hold Shift | Increase the nudge distance |
| Hold Ctrl + Shift | Nudge by the Fixed Nudge Distance which is specified in the Snap Settings (F4) |

## Node Editing

Available while in the node editing mode.  Drag Node when using Quick Keys.

| I | Insert a Point |
| D | Delete Point / Span |
| S | Smooth / Unsmooth Point |
| C | Cut Vector opens the vector |
| B | Convert span to Bezier |
| A | Convert span to Arc |
| L | Convert span to Line |
| P | Makes the selected node the Start Point for machining |
| X | Displays a single node's X and Y location properties |
| Y | Modifies the position of the Y coordinates of the selected nodes to match the position of the first one (when more than one node is selected) |
| H | Enter horizontal mirror mode (press again to exit) |
| V | Enter vertical mirror mode (press again to exit) |
| K | Toggle Keep Bezier Tangency mode, which will fix the start and end directions of Bezier curves when they are being dragged directly |
| J | Join two selected open vectors (at two end nodes if also selected) |
| Right mouse click | Opens context sensitive menus |

| Value Enter | Moves node from original position by that amount in direction of cursor.  Equivalent to:Value L |
| Value , Value Enter | Move the node by that amount relative to its current position.  Equivalent to: Value D Value W |
| Value X Value Y | Moves node to the absolute position X and Y |

## Moving Objects

Drag Object when using Quick Keys.

| Value Enter | Moves object the Value from original position in direction of cursor.  Equivalent to: Value L. |
| Value , Value Enter | Moves object relative to its position by X and Y.  Equivalent to: Value D Value W. |
| Value X Value Y | Moves object to the absolute position X and Y |

## Rotating Objects

Drag rotation handle when using Quick Keys.

| Value Enter | Rotate the selection by Value degrees counterclockwise.  Equivalent to: Value L. |

## Scaling Objects

Drag scaling handle when using Quick Keys.

| Value Enter | Default when dragging edge scale nodes only. |
| Value , Value Enter | Default when dragging corner scale nodes only. |
| Value S | Scale the object by a factor. |

## Polyline Tool

Once the first point is entered the Quick Keys can be used without having to depress the left mouse key. Entering values defines the next end-point.

| Value Enter | Places next point Value away from the last point in the direction of cursor.  Equivalent to: Value L. |
| Value , Value Enter | Place the next point offset by that amount relative to the last point's position:  Equivalent to: Value D Value W. |
| Value X Value Y | Places the next point at position X and Y |
| Value A Value L | Creates a line with an angle of A° and a length L |

| Backspace | Undo last span |
| Space | Finish current polyline and start a new one. |

## Draw Circle

Quick Keys can be used while creating (left mouse button depressed)

| Value Enter | Create a circle with the given radius.  Equivalent to: Value R. |
| Value D | Create a circle of Diameter D |

## Draw Ellipse

Quick Keys can be used while creating (left mouse button depressed)

| Value Enter | Create an Ellipse with the given diameter.  Equivalent to: Value L. |
| Value , Value Enter | Create an ellipse with width and height.  Equivalent to: Value W Value H. |
| Value X | Create an ellipse with width X and use the current height |
| Value Y | Create an ellipse with height Y and use the current width |

## Draw Rectangle

Quick Keys can be used while creating (left mouse button depressed)

| Value Enter | Create a square with the given side length.  Equivalent to: Value L. |
| Value , Value Enter | Create a rectangle with given width and height.  Equivalent to: Value W Value H. |
| Value X | Create a rectangle with width X and use the current height |
| Value Y | Create a rectangle with height Y and use the current width |
| Value R Value X | Create a rectangle with a radius R and width X, using current height |
| Value R Value Y | Create a rectangle with a radius R and height Y, using current width |
| Value W Value H | Create a rectangle with width W and height H |
| Value , Value Enter | Create a rectangle with width and height |

## Draw Polygon

Quick Keys can be used while creating (left mouse button depressed)

| Value Enter | Create a polygon inscribed on circle with the given radius.  Equivalent to : Value R. |
| Value D | Creates a Polygon with diameter D |
| Value S Value R | Create a polygon with number of sides S and radius R |
| Value S Value D | Create a polygon with number of sides S and diameter D |

## Draw Star

Quick Keys can be used while creating (left mouse button depressed)

| Value Enter | Create a star with the given radius. |
| Value D | Create a star with diameter D |
| Value P Value R | Create a star with number of points P and radius R |
| Value P Value D | Create a star with number of points P and diameter D |
| Value P Value I Value R | Create a star with number of points P , Internal Radius % I and radius R |
| Value P Value I Value D | Create a star with number of points P , Internal Radius % I and diameter D |