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3D Coat keyboard shortcuts
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First published at 12/23/2020 on https://defkey.com/3dcoat-shortcuts

3D Coat is a digital sculpting software for creating free-form organic and
hard surfaced 3D models. The program can also be used to modify imported 3D
models from various software products.

3D Coat has 95 shortcuts and we have listed all of them below.



File menu
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Ctrl + O                Open file
Ctrl + S                Save file
Ctrl + Alt + S          Save file as
Ctrl + Shift + S        Save incrementally
Ctrl + Shift + O        Import model
Ctrl + Shift + M        Import image plane


Edit menu
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Ctrl + Z                Undo
Ctrl + Y                Redo
Ctrl + P                Edit all layers in external editor
Ctrl + Alt + P          Edit projection in external editor
Ctrl + Shift + F        Offset tool


View menu
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Num 5                   Ortho-projection
1                       View relief only
2                       View unshaded model
3                       View only specular
4                       View wireframe
5                       View shaded model
6                       View low-poly model
7                       View low shaded model
Ctrl + '                Show 2D grid


Popups
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B                       Color picker
F                       Pick pivot point
L                       Show layer list
Space                   Show tools panel
D                       Depth channel
C                       Color channel
R                       Specular channel
T                       List of pens
M                       List of materials
E                       Types of drawing
~                       Quick panel
S                       Symmetry


Layers operations
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Ctrl + Shift + N        Add new layer
Ctrl + Shift + Del      Delete layer
Del                     Erase unfrozen
Insert                  Fill unfrozen
Ctrl + Insert           Fill by mask
Ctrl + Shift + D        Duplicate layer
Ctrl + Shift + E        Merge visible layers
Ctrl + E                Merge down


Freeze operations
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Alt + F                 Toggle freeze view
Ctrl + D                Unfreeze all
Ctrl + Shift + I        Invert freeze / selection
Ctrl + F                Show / hide freeze
Ctrl + Num *            Smooth freezing
Ctrl + Num +            Expand frozen area
Ctrl + Num -            Contract frozen area
Ctrl + Num /            Freeze border


Copy / Paste and pick
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Ctrl + V                Paste
Ctrl + C                Copy
Ctrl + Shift + C        Creation of a new pen from a site
V                       Pick color
H                       Pick layer


Splines
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Left click              Add point to a spline
Enter                   Draw extruded curve
Ctrl + Enter            Pressed in one
Esc                     Delete all points
Backspace               Delete the last point
Tab + Left click + Move the mouse Change the position symmetry plane


Hide operations
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Ctrl + X                Unhide all
Num +                   Expand hidden area
Num -                   Contract hidden area


Smoothing
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Shift + +               Increase level of smoothing
Shift + Wheel up        Increase level of smoothing
Shift + -               Decrease level of smoothing
Shift + Wheel down      Decrease level of smoothing


Glossiness
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/                       Increase opacity of glossiness
;                       Decrease opacity of glossiness


Color
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P                       Increase transparency of texture
O                       Decrease transparency of texture


Camera and custom navigation
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Num 2                   Front
Num 8                   Back
Num 4                   Left
Num 6                   Right
Num 7                   Top
Num 1                   Bottom
Ctrl + Up arrow         Add camera
Ctrl + Down arrow       Delete camera
Ctrl + Left arrow       Switch to previous
Ctrl + Right arrow      Switch to next


Sliders
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O                       Decrease opacity
P                       Increase opacity
9                       Decrease angle
0                       Increase angle
[                       Decrease radius
]                       Increase radius
-                       Decrease degree
+                       Increase degree
Shift + -               Decrease smooth degree
Shift + +               Increase smooth degree
;                       Decrease glossiness opacity
'                       Increase glossiness opacity
<                       Decrease glossiness degree
>                       Increase glossiness degree
X                       Swap colors


Customizing shortcuts
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To define a hotkey, move the mouse over the item you want to set a keyboard
shortcut and press End. You'll see a prompt that allows you to assign a key
to that function.

Source: 3dcoat.com


Last modified on (UTC): Wednesday, December 23, 2020
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