============================================= Altium Designer keyboard shortcuts (filtered) ============================================= First published at 5/21/2021 on https://defkey.com/altium-designer-shortcuts Altium Designer is a PCB (printed circuit board) design software package for Windows. It is developed by Australian software company Altium. Easy access to shortcuts ------------------------ Shift + F1 Show keyboard shortcuts for current stage of an interactive command F1 Graphical Editing hot key list Customizing shortcuts --------------------- Ctrl + Left click Click on a command on a menu or toolbar to edit it This will open the Edit Command dialog in which you can add a new shortcut or edit the currently assigned shortcut. General ------- Ctrl + Alt + S Save and release the defined entity Ctrl + Tab Cycle forward to the next open tabbed document, making it the active document in the design workspace F4 Toggle the display of all floating panels F5 Refresh the active document when that document is a web-based document Left click + Move the mouse (Drag and drop from Windows Explorer into Altium Designer) Open a document, project, or design workspace General Editor shortcuts ------------------------ Ctrl + Backspace Redo SCH and SCHLIB -------------- Ctrl + F Find text Shift + Ctrl + B Align selected objects by their bottom edges Ctrl + M Measure the distance between two points on the active schematic document Interactive ----------- Availability of these shortcuts depends on the interactive command and the specific design object that is the focus of that command. Alt Constrain the direction of movement to the horizontal or vertical axis depending on the initial direction of movement PCB and PCBLIB Editor --------------------- Alt + Shift + L Align selected design objects by their left edges while maintaining adequate spacing in observance with applicable design rules 3 Switch the display of the PCB workspace to 3D Layout Mode Num + Switch to the next enabled layer General interactive shortcuts ----------------------------- Note: Shortcuts available will depend on the interactive command and the specific design object that is the focus of that command. L Flip the object being placed/moved to the other side of the board * Switch to the next enabled signal layer R When moving a component to cycle through component conflict resolution modes (Ignore Obstacles, Push Obstacles, Avoid Obstacles) Interactive polygonal object ---------------------------- Note: Following additional shortcuts relate to placing/editing polygonal-shaped objects - Polygon Pour, Region, Coverlay Polygon, Polygonal Room, Extruded 3D Body, Board Shape. 3D Body Placement ----------------- Note: The shortcuts actually available depend on the type of 3D Model being placed or moved - Extruded, Cylinder, Sphere, or Generic 3D Model. For more information, click the source link found bottom of this article. 3D Visualization ---------------- Note: In addition, you can use the applicable drop-down field on the PCB Standard toolbar (PCB Editor), or the PCB Lib Standard toolbar (PCB Library Editor) to quickly choose from a set of predefined 3D views when viewing your board (or library components) in 3D. Ctrl + Num 7 Change the view of the board (or component) in 3D so that you are looking at the board from the back side Managed Component Editor ------------------------ Batch Component Editing Mode Scripting Document Shortcuts ---------------------------- These additional shortcuts are available when working with scripting text-based documents. Accellerator keys ----------------- Accelerator keys are tied to menu system. They consist of sequential use of keys to access a command in main menu. These are some examples of such key sequences. You can build and memorize such sequences by looking at underlined letters in menus. Source: Altium Last modified on (UTC): Friday, May 21, 2021 Defkey © All rights reserved.