Keyboard Shortcuts.

[justdhruv]

Hi there. I have been following ArchiCAD for the past twelve years now, through seminars, product brochures and online chat forums. All these years i wanted to buy it, but it was prohibitively expensive. I have been working on Vectorworks all these years and i think it is a great programme. Quite recently the National distributors ran a promotional price here in India, and i bought 4 licenses for my office. At this time though, they have provided us with version 9 only. we would be getting the version 10 some time in late october.

Anyway, i have started to learn version 9 on my own with the help of the training and the reference guide. Even after searching quite a lot i could not find the keyboard short cut for pan and zoom. Could anyone help me out here?

[Link]

You haven't told us what platform you are on. For mac use cmd instead of ctrl.

These should be the defaults for AC9:

Pan: Ctrl+,
Zoom - Fit in Window: Ctrl+'
Zoom to Selection: Ctrl+Shift+'
Zoom In: Ctrl+/
Zoom Out: Ctrl+Shift+/

You can also use your arrow keys to pan and your +- keys to zoom manually.

All of this depends on the Shortcut Scheme you have enabled. To check that and to assign different keyboard shortcuts, go to Options > Work Environment then in the left pane go to Work Environment Profiles>Shortcut Schemes>Keyboard Shortcuts. You can even view and print all shortcuts from there.

The best bet is to get a mouse with a scroll wheel and you can roll the wheel to zoom and press the wheel to pan.

Whereabouts in India are you? I may be going through there this October on my way back from the UK.

Cheers,
Link.

[Rakela Raul]

The best bet is to get a mouse with a scroll wheel and you can roll the wheel to zoom and press the wheel to pan.

[justdhruv]

Thanks Link. I am on a Powerbook G4 17" and use a wacom as my input device. I have been fiddling with Archicad for about a week now. I am glad that you can make your own keyboard short cuts. That way i can make them similar to those in Vectorworks.

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