Hotkey Reference

Tools

• Shift+S - Pointer Tool
  

• Shift+G - Magnify Tool
  
• Shift+C - Camera Tool
  
• Shift+E - Entity Tool
  
• Shift+B - Block Tool
  
• Shift+A - Texture App Tool
  
• Shift+T - Apply Current Texture
  
• Shift+D - Decal Tool
  
• Shift+X - Clipping Tool
  
• Shift+V - Vertex Manipulation Tool
  
• Shift+P - Path Tool

Clipboard/Selection

• Ctrl+C - copy objects to clipboard (also ctrl+insert)
  

• Ctrl+V - paste objects from clipboard (also shift+insert)
  
• Ctrl+X - cut objects to clipboard (also shift+del)
  
• Ctrl+E - center on selection (vertex/object) in all views
  
• Shift+Q - clear selections
  
• PgUp - previous selection in "hit" list
  
• PgDn - next selection in "hit" list

Grid

• [ - grid lower
  

• ] - grid higher
  
• Shift+R - toggle grid on/off
  
• Shift+W - toggle snap to grid
  
• p - (with mouse cursor in 3D view) toggle 3D grid on and off

Grouping

• Ctrl+G - group objects
  

• Ctrl+U - ungroup objects

Carving/Hollowing

• Ctrl+Shift+C - carve
  

• Ctrl+H - hollow

Creating Objects

• Enter - create object drawn with block/entity tool
  

• Alt+Shift+C - insert original prefab
  
• Ctrl+R - create prefab with selected objects
  
• Ctrl+T - create entity with selected objects; to add objects to an existing entity, select it and the objects and hit Ctrl+T (you will be prompted)

Other Object Operations

• Ctrl+B - snap selected objects to grid (based on bounding box)
  

• Alt+Enter - selected object's properties

File Stuff

• Ctrl+N - new file
  

• Ctrl+O - open file
  
• Ctrl+S - save file

Undo/Redo

• Ctrl+Z - undo
  

• Ctrl+Y - redo

2D Views

• Ctrl+I - flip vertical
  

• Ctrl+L - flip horizontal
  
• Tab - switch view types (top/side/front)
  
• +/- - zoom in/out (hold Ctrl to synchronize all 2D views)
  
• 1 to 9 - preset zoom levels
  
• Space - hold space and left mouse button to drag view
  
• Alt - disable snap to grid while dragging with the mouse

3D View

• Space - While holding the spacebar:

  • holding the left mouse button allows you to rotate your angle of view in any direction, while the viewing point remains stationary.
    

  • holding the right mouse button will allow you to move left, right, up, and down while keeping the viewing angle constant.

• Space+Shift - While holding the spacebar and Shift:

  • the left mouse button acts the same as above.
    

  • the right mouse button allows you to move forward and backward, as well as from side to side.

• z - Pressing the (lowercase) z puts the editor 3D view into its new "noclip" mode (this mode can be disabled in the 3D options dialog)

  • the mouse acts like +mlook is on (moving it around will change the player's direction of focus).
    

  • W - forward
    
  • S - backward
    
  • A - strafe left
    
  • D - strafe right

• Shift+Right-mouse-click - will select an entire brush and bring up the 3D View context menu, as above.
  

• p - (with mouse cursor in 3D view) toggle 3D grid on and off
  
• o - (with mouse cursor in 3D view) display frames per second and yaw/pitch of camera.

Morph Tool

• Ctrl+F - split faces (vertex manipulation) - must have two edges or vertices selected
  

• Alt+E - vertex scaling

Selection Tool

• Ctrl - hold Ctrl and click to select multiple objects
  

• Shift - hold Shift when rotating to constrain rotation to 15 degrees; hold Shift when moving an object to create a copy (clone) of that object
  
• (drag) - hold left mouse button and drag to select with a box; press Enter to select objects hitting the box, or press Shift+Enter to select objects only entirely within the box.

Camera Tool

• Shift - create a new camera by holding Shift and dragging with the left mouse button.
  

• PgUp - cycle to the previous camera position
  
• PgDn - cycle to the next camera position
  
• Delete - delete the current camera position

Clipper Tool

• Enter - perform clip
  

• Ctrl - hold Ctrl and drag with the left mouse button to move both handles of the clipper
  
• Shift - hold Shift and drag with the left mouse button to create a new clip plane without performing the previous clip.
  
• o - (with mouse cursor in 2D view) toggle clip sizes on and off

Miscellaneous

• Alt+B - export again
  

• Ctrl+A - auto-size 4 views to center
  
• Shift - (while in Texture Application mode) select entire object
  
• Shift+L - texture lock
  
• Shift+Z - maximize/restore view
  
• Ctrl+M - transform dialog
  
• Alt+P - check map for errors
  
• F9 - run map
  
• Escape - abort current tool/mouse operation (drag/drop)