Keyboard shortcuts
Streamline your workflow with useful keyboard shortcuts for common actions
Table of Contents
Tool selection
Keyboard shortcut | Activates |
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M |
Move & select tool See: Moving and selecting objects |
A |
Pan tool |
C |
Conductor tool |
P |
Pole tool |
Y |
Stay / Guy tool |
S |
Split Conductor or Construction tool |
J |
Conductor Join tool |
O |
Obstruction tool |
T |
Survey / Terrain tool |
G |
Ground Clearance Measure tool |
D |
Clearance Measure tool |
B |
Profile Builder tool |
F |
Datasets tool |
Quick asset zoom
Keyboard shortcut | Activates |
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/ |
Displays a popup to quickly search for, and zoom to, an object in the network model in the perspective, plan, or profile views
If you have a different view open (or none of the above views open), Neara will open and zoom to the selected object in the perspective view |
This shortcut will work when any of the following tools are active:
- Move & select tool
- Pan tool
- Conductor tool
- Pole tool
- Stay / Guy tool
- Split Conductor or Construction tool
- Conductor Join tool
- Obstruction tool
- Survey / Terrain tool
- Ground Clearance Measure tool
- Clearance Measure tool
- Profile Builder tool
- Datasets tool
Positioning and orienting the camera in 2D and 3D views
Keyboard and/or mouse action | Action |
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Scroll up / scroll down using a mouse scroll wheel or trackpad |
Zoom-in and zoom-out in the plan, profile, or perspective view |
Right-click on the mouse while using the mouse scroll wheel |
In the perspective view it will change the field of view
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Right-click anywhere in the 3D perspective view and drag the mouse cursor around |
The view will orbit (rotate in 3D) around the point that you right-clicked on |
Press the
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Pans (shifts the view around without changing the angle that you're viewing from) on the horizontal axes in the plan, profile or perspective view
To pan in the vertical axis press and hold the |
For demonstrations of the effect of these actions, see Positioning and orienting the camera in 2D and 3D views
Extended orientation shortcuts
When a pole or conductor span is selected, these additional keyboard shortcuts are available:
Keyboard shortcut | Action |
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Z |
Zoom the camera to the selected item(s). If multiple items are selected, the level of zoom encompasses all. |
1 |
Orients the camera to a top-down, north-aligned view |
2 |
Orients the camera to a transverse view |
3 |
Orients the camera to an oblique, north-aligned view |
4 |
Orients the camera to an oblique, east-aligned view |