Use the mouse and keyboard in tools
 
 
 

Use the following mouse and keyboard actions, conventions, and button mappings in most or all tools.

Mouse buttons

Creation, transformation, and editing tools use the same mouse buttons for similar functions:

Window Type Mouse Button Convention
Orthographic  

Free across view plane
   

Constrained horizontally
   

Constrained vertically
Perspective  

Constrained along X axis
   

Constrained along Y axis
   

Constrained along Z axis

Keyboard

Note

If you are using single key hotkeys, you must press or click the prompt line before you can type tool input.

Pick while using a non-pick tool

In most tools, you can temporarily switch to picking geometry. While you hold , mouse clicks pick and unpick geometry.