Reference
Keyboard shortcuts
The keys VETRATA Studio starts with. On a Mac, every Ctrl is ⌘. Press ? in the Studio to see your own, and change any of them.
Press a key on your own keyboard, or point at one.
ShiftCtrl
General
- Find a command
- CtrlK
- Cutting PDF
- CtrlP
- Keyboard shortcuts
- ?
Edit
- Undo
- CtrlZ
- Redo
- CtrlShiftZ
- Cut
- CtrlX
- Copy
- CtrlC
- Paste
- CtrlV
- Paste in front
- CtrlF
- Paste in back
- CtrlB
- Transform again
- CtrlD
- Select every piece
- CtrlA
- Group
- CtrlG
- Ungroup
- CtrlShiftG
- Join two anchors with a lead
- CtrlJ
View
- Zoom in
- +
- Zoom out
- −
- Fit the whole pattern
- F
- Grid
- G
- Rulers
- U
- Snap
- N
- Show guides
- Ctrl;
- Lock guides
- CtrlAlt;
Fixed keys
- Drop the selection, or close a dialog
- Esc
- Remove what is selected
- Delete
- Nudge the selection one grid step (Shift 10×, Ctrl a tenth)
- Arrow keys
- Drag off an independent duplicate
- Alt+drag
- Borrow the Selection tool for as long as it is down, whatever tool you are holding
- Hold Ctrl
- Pan around the drawing
- Space+drag
- A guide, as in Illustrator — drag it to move it, back onto a ruler (or click it and press Delete) to remove it
- Drag out of a ruler
- The menu for whatever is under the cursor; on empty canvas, the commands that need no target, the rest greyed with the reason they cannot run
- Right-click
While you are drawing
- With a shape or a line started: type its measurements. With Pen or Curve: finish the path
- Enter
- Finish a Pen path, or make a Curve point a corner
- Double-click
- Any shape tool: the two clicks are its two points, the drag is not required
- Click, then click
- Lock the lead to the fixed directions (Drawing properties, with the Pen or Line, sets which)
- Shift while drawing
- Freehand: fit the whole stroke to one straight lead
- Shift on release
- Slide it ALONG the straight lead it rides, keeping that lead exactly straight
- Shift+drag an anchor
- Shapes: swap corner-first and centre-first. Dragging: ignore snapping
- Alt/Option
- Pen and Curve: finish the path where it stands. Any other gesture: the menu, with Accept and Cancel at the top
- Right-click while drawing
- Abandon the stroke, path, arc or measurement in progress
- Esc
Navigate
- Selection
- V
- Direct select
- A
- Skew
- H
- Split a lead
- S
- Remove a lead
- D
- Knife — again for the Straight knife
- ShiftK
Build the leadwork
- Curve
- ShiftP
- Pen
- P
- Freehand
- Y
- Smooth
- ShiftY
- Line
- L
- Three-point arc
- Q
Shape & detail
- Rectangle
- R
- Ellipse
- E
- Polygon
- 6
- Star
- K
- Rosette
- M
- Rectangular grid
- ShiftG
- Offset rings
- ShiftO
- Shaper
- ShiftN
- Shape Builder
- ShiftM
- Add a note
- T
Glass
- Glaze pieces
- W
Check
- Measure distance — again for Measure objects
- I
Read from the Studio's Keyboard shortcuts dialog on 17 October 2026.