wma Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I know you can use the "x" on the keyboard to switch to the little selection arrow, rather than going to the tools palette, which is useful. However I quite often am using, say, the trim tool (ie. the one with the scissors symbol that chops a bit of line out between two other lines it crosses), and am constantly switching back and forth from that to the selection arrow. (Trim a line, select a line and move it, trim something else, select a line and resize it, trim another line, etc.) In this situation it would be really useful to toggle between the two tools with a keyboard shortcut. Basically what I want is a keyboard shortcut that will take you back to the tool you last used before using the selection arrow, whether that's the trim tool or something else. Is there a way of doing this? Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Knowing your version of Vectorworks would help to answer, but in 2009 you can hold the space bar down, select another tool, release the space bar and it will revert. Quote Link to comment
wma Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 I'm on 2008 but that seems to work. Excellent, thank you! Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 The "boomerang" or "pause" mode is called activated with the space bar as Ray says. Press the space bar and by default you get the Pan tool. Hit the X key, you get the 2D Selection tool. Select or move the object and release the spacebar and you are back to the tool you had selected. Not quite as nice as a true toggle tool command, but not bad. It might be possible to write a menu command that would toggle tools, but it would probably not be very convenient. Quote Link to comment
j.christ Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 I'd suggest to find the default keyboard shortcuts list (online help I believe) for VW2008. My guess you'd only be using 50% of what's available. Check this post it's a VWX shortcut drawing and might help... http://techboard.nemetschek.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showthreaded&Number=112358 Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Too bad the space bar can't be mapped to the selection tool...switching between VW and other software would be much less painful. Hardcoding the keyboard hasn't been good practice for decades. Quote Link to comment
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