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Keyboard shortcuts

Plan Markup is built to be driven from the keyboard: left hand on the keys, right hand on the mouse, and a plan set goes by fast. These are the current shortcuts in both the Mac app and the browser app.

Key Action
V Select
H or Space Pan
M Measure length
L Line
A Arrow
R Rectangle
E Ellipse
C Revision cloud
P Pen (freehand)
G Highlighter
T Text
1 through 9 Arm tool chest preset
Key Action
Shift (while drawing) Snap to 45 degrees, keep shapes square
Backspace (mid-trace) Remove the last vertex
Key Action
⌘Z Undo
⇧⌘Z Redo
Delete Remove selection
⌘D Duplicate selected markup
← ↑ ↓ → Nudge selection (add ⇧ for 10x)
Shift (while moving) Constrain move to horizontal or vertical
Key Action
⌘+ / ⌘- Zoom in and out
⌘0 Fit page
⌘ + scroll Zoom at the cursor
← → Previous and next page
Page Up / Page Down Previous and next page
Key Action
⌘F Search text across all sheets
Enter Next match
⇧Enter Previous match

Search reads the PDF’s own text layer, so it works on drawings produced from CAD and does not work on scanned images. See Limitations and roadmap.