Keyboard shortcuts

These keyboard shortcuts help you work faster in ProfiCAD:

SHORTCUT ICON ACTION
Ctrl + A Edit - Select All
Shift + A Context menu - Symbol Attributes
Ctrl + B icon: Copy to clipboard as image Edit - Copy to clipboard as image
Ctrl + C icon: Edit - Copy Edit - Copy
Shift + C Context menu - Symbol Connection Points
Ctrl + F   View - Search Panel
Ctrl + L   View - Layers Panel
Ctrl + N icon: File - New File - New
Ctrl + O icon: File - Open File - Open
Ctrl + P icon: File - Print File - Print
Ctrl + S icon: File - Save File - Save
Shift + S   File - Save As
Ctrl + V icon: Edit - Paste Edit - Paste
Ctrl + W   Close the current document
Ctrl + X icon: Edit - Cut Edit - Cut
Ctrl + Z icon: Edit - Back Edit - Undo
* on Numeric Keyboard   View - Center working area
F1 Help
F4 Switch layer
F5 Refresh the symbol list in the diagram editor
F6 Allow moving text with hyperlink
F12 icon: File - Options File - Options
B icon: Draw - Curve Draw - Curve
C icon: Draw - Circle Draw - Circle
E icon: Draw - Ellipse Draw - Ellipse
G icon: Draw - Polygon Draw - Polygon
H icon: Insert - Gate Insert - Gate
L icon: Draw - Polyline Draw - Polyline
M   View - Grid
N icon: Insert - Label Insert - Label
R icon: Draw - Rectangle Draw - Rectangle
S icon: Insert - Wire Insert - Wire
T icon: Insert - Text Insert - Text
U icon: Draw - Line Draw - Line
Z icon: Draw - Rounded rectangle Draw - Rounded rectangle
Esc icon: Go to selection mode Switch to selection mode
space bar   Instant symbol search
backspace   While drawing lines or wires, undo the last segment
Page Up   Go to the previous page
Page Down   Go to the next page

 
Mouse and keyboard controls:
right mouse button + mouse movementpan the drawing area
Shift + drag objectmove object ignoring snap
Ctrl + drag objectclone object
Ctrl + Shift + clickadd or remove object from the selection
mouse wheelzoom in / out
Shift + mouse wheelscroll drawing horizontally
Ctrl + mouse wheelscroll drawing vertically
Ctrl + Shift + mouse wheelsmooth zoom
hold Ctrl while drawing
rectangles, ellipses and lines
constrain to orthogonal mode
arrow keysnudge selected objects by 0.1 mm
chat support