
For a Schematic or PCB interactive command, the applicable Use the Shortcuts panel to access a listing of the shortcuts for the active Editor. And when you are running an interactive command, those interactive shortcuts will also be listed in the panel. For example, having a schematic document open will show the various Schematic Editor shortcuts. By keeping the Shortcuts panel visible, you can quickly peruse the shortcuts available to you, depending on what you are working on. Use the Graphical Editing Hot key List dialog to also refresh your memory about the shortcuts available for the currently running interactive command.įor a less transient approach, Altium Designer offers the context-sensitive Shortcuts panel, which can be docked, or made to float in the editor space. Rather than using the Close button to exit the dialog - which can affect the currently running command with a change to the current cursor location - simply press Esc, or Enter, instead. This gives access to the Graphical Editing Hot key List dialog, which simply provides a listing of the shortcuts available (but which cannot be launched), as well as access to the documentation for the currently running command.

Select the required option with the mouse.Īlternative, and while the interactive command is running, use the F1 keyboard shortcut. Use the Shift+F1 shortcuts menu to refresh your memory about the shortcuts available, or use it in the traditional menu sense, to You can either process another command by choosing it from the menu, or press Esc to close the menu without impact on the currently running command. When an interactive command is running, for example, Place » Wire in the Schematic Editor, use the Shift+F1 keyboard shortcut to access a menu, listing all valid shortcuts for that stage of the interactive command. To help with this, Altium Designer provides a shortcut menu that can be used from within all interactive Schematic and PCB commands. In a multi-editor environment like Altium Designer, it can be hard to remember the shortcuts, particularly those special-purpose ones that are available when you are running a command. This page gathers together the default shortcuts that are available across the various design domains within Altium Designer.

Keystrokes are more efficient than carefully positioning a mouse over a button or drilling through menus, and once learned become second nature. Perhaps the single thing you can do to become more productive in any software environment is to learn the shortcut keys.
