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Keyboard short cut for previous view

Geof Gainer — Mon, 26 May 2025 05:28:20 GMT

Since the last update my keyboard shortcut for switching to the previous view--say back to a detail from plan or 3D--doesn't work. It just toggles successively through all the open windows. I'd fix it but I can't find the command listed in Keyboard Shortcuts. Anyone know what it's named?

Re: Keyboard short cut for previous view

CosminF — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:25:14 GMT

Hi,

I found the settings you might be looking for in - Window - Navigate.

Maybe you can define your custom ones there.

Hope this helps.

Re: Keyboard short cut for previous view

Geof Gainer — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:14:56 GMT

Right idea, but no luck, thanks Cosmin. I've searched commands with "go" "back" "toggle" etc but can't find it.

How do other people do this: if you're in any window—plan, section, layout, detail, schedule, etc—how to you get back to the previous window you were just in? For the past twenty years I've just hit command-~. Now that just cycles me through every open window till I get back to the right one a dozen clicks later.

Re: Keyboard short cut for previous view

CosminF — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:02:51 GMT

I personally use F2 or F3 to toggle between plan and section and avoid opening too many “tabs” at once.

Re: Keyboard short cut for previous view

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:29:52 GMT

@Geof Gainer,

There is the "Show Previous Tab" and "Show Next Tab" pair of commands, but I am not sure that is what you are looking for.

Re: Keyboard short cut for previous view

Geof Gainer — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:57:17 GMT

I believe the problem turns out to have been an operating system upgrade. All my other apps toggles back and forth between your current window and the last one you looked at with command-~. But for some reason in AC you toggle sequentially through all your dozen or so open windows. Really frustrating when you're used to zipping back and forth between two views without having to look at the keyboard. Any way this can be fixed within AC, or is it a Mac problem?

Re: Keyboard short cut for previous view

Barry Kelly — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:57:25 GMT

There are commands for showing last section, elevation, etc., that you can assign shortcuts for.

Personally I find it easier you just click on the tab itself or on the view in the view map list.

Or as Laszlo mentioned, there is a command for "Show Previous Tab".

Barry.

Re: Keyboard short cut for previous view

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:32:02 GMT

I think what Geoff wants is the ability to switch to the previous active Tab, not the previous Tab in the list of Tabs.

If you have, let us say, 6 Tabs open, and you are on Tab 1 (Floor Plan), then you click Tab 5, which is a Layout, then the Show Previous Tab command will take you to Tab 4, not Tab 1, where you were before going to Tab 5.

So, unfortunately, there is no Show Previous Active Tab command in Archicad. Barry's suggestion may be the next best thing.

Re: Keyboard short cut for previous view

Geof Gainer — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:18:09 GMT

Thanks Laszlo, that's exactly right, and I used to be able to do it. But I think it stopped working with command-~ because of a macOS change, not a fault of AC, so I'm guessing it's not something that Graphisoft can change back.