Customize Hotkeys

[Cowski4444]

Customized hotkeys for features not set up yet such as "Add Shapes".
Also...

Is it possible to have a hotkey set to allow to center a piece on the workplane? I know there is an icon on top for it but a lot of users, including me, live with hotkeys. Same goes for other icons on the top such as a hotkey to open up the shapes browser.

Thanks Stefan!

[PabloJonesUK]

No 1,2,3,4,5,6 changes view point, when you get a nice view on your project you can use Shift, and 7,8,9,0 to save it, then just use keys 7,8,9,0, to recall your personal view ..

[Cowski4444]

I'm talking about clicking on an object, hitting a key and it centers that object on the workplane..

[PabloJonesUK]

oh ok i understand now ..

[henmedia]

@Cowski4444 There is no key for "Center on workplane" yet, and you can't set your own keys. The fastest way right now is the command search: select the object, press Ctrl+K, type "cen" and press Enter. The search puts what you used last at the top, so from the second time on Ctrl+K and Enter is enough. Shapes work the same way: Ctrl+K, type "cyl", Enter adds a cylinder.

Here is how your own keys could work:

• The keyboard shortcuts list (the keyboard button at the top, next to the command search) gets a "Set key" button next to each command. You press the key you want, and layerling tells you if that key is already taken.
• Every command from the command search can get a key, including each shape and "Center on workplane".
• Your keys are saved in your browser, and "Reset" brings back the default keys.

I'd like to hear what others think first: Would you use this? Which commands would you put on a key first?

[Cowski4444]

The very first key I'd use first is one to center the object on the workplane. :) I use that icon A LOT. lol -- Would be easier, for me, to hit a key since I keep one hand on the keyboard anyways.

Probably next would be one to open the "Add Shape" box.

Maybe next would be a programmable hotkey to drop a box, cylinder, capsule, rounded box (or whatever I choose to program it for) onto the workplane.

Those are the ones, off the top of my head, that I would use, a lot! :)

[henmedia]

@Cowski4444 it's in layerling 1.148.0: you can now put your own keys on commands. Open Keyboard shortcuts (the keyboard button at the top), click Add a key under Your own keys, find the command and press the key you want. Any command of the command search works, so all three of yours do: Center on workplane (Shift+C is free, for example), the new "Open the shapes panel", and any shape like a box, cylinder, capsule or rounded box. If a key is already taken, layerling tells you what it's used for.

[Cowski4444]

Stefan, you are the best!! Thank you very much!!!