Guide / Chapter 19

Shortcuts

PVA’s key bindings cannot be rebound. Ctrl stands for the Command key on macOS and the Control key on Linux; where a platform has its own standard key for a command (Undo, Save, Preferences), the tables show both forms. Menu entries show their chord beside the label (see 1AU View), and the Settings window’s Shortcuts page shows the same list (see Settings).

Unless noted, a chord works with the keyboard focus anywhere in the main window, including the many that have no menu entry. Text fields keep their own Delete, Backspace and word-jump keys, so Delete Selection and the nudge chords act only when the canvas has the focus. Delete removes just the selected nodes, with no confirmation. Copy is CtrlD, not the platform’s Copy key. Bare digits 1 to 9 recall saved camera views while a 3-D viewport has the focus, and they take precedence over macros.

Edit

Session

Graph

Commands that act on the selected nodes and on evaluation. Deep Copy creates a Snapshot node holding a captured copy of the payload (see Copying).

Canvas

View commands and the Quick Add and Connect menus. While the Quick Add palette is open, CtrlD adds the highlighted row to favorites or removes it (see Favorites).

Nodes

Export

Macros

While Macro Mode is on and a 3-D viewport has the focus, recorded macros act on node parameters. Every chord above, every binding in the 3-D viewport table, Ctrl+digit, the bare digits 1 to 9 and a bare wheel notch are reserved (see Reserved gestures).

Help

Mouse and trackpad

A trackpad scroll pans the canvas and Ctrl (Cmd) + scroll zooms; the Trackpad scroll pans style setting swaps them (see Panning and zooming). Scrolling over a spin box, combo box or slider changes its value only while Ctrl (Cmd on macOS) is held.

3-D viewport

The pyvista bindings come from the plotting library; the picking, chord and recall entries belong to PVA. VTK’s single-letter bindings are disabled in every viewport (see Suppressed VTK keys), so those letters are free for macros, except q and Shift+C.