Keyboard shortcuts for the modeling component

The following shortcuts are available in the modeling component.

Keyboard shortcuts can be performed on selected items. Selected items can be identified by the focus in the program.

Selection marker that marks the item that is selected. There are certain occurrences of selection markers, such as text cursors.

The focus is usually surrounded by colored frames, which can be dashed or solid.

You can often start actions for the selected items using the Enter key or the space bar.

Shortcut

Action

Alt

Temporarily switches off Guided Modeling and grid when you drag items.

Alt + down arrow

Moves selected objects down by four grid lines.

Alt + F4

Closes the web browser. If changed models have not yet been saved, the system displays a message to notify you. You can cancel the dialog and save the model or leave the model page without saving.

Alt + left arrow

Moves selected objects four grid lines to the left.

Alt + - (minus)

Inserts an optional hyphen at the cursor position in a text.

Alt + right arrow

Moves selected objects four grid lines to the right.

Alt + up arrow

Moves selected objects up by four grid lines.

Backspace

Removes selected object symbols or deletes selected items, such as free-form text and graphic objects.

Ctrl + A

Selects all items.

Ctrl + C

Copies selected items to the clipboard. This enables you to paste copied items from the clipboard into models/diagrams and into other Windows programs.

Ctrl + down arrow

Moves selected items downwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + End

Displays the bottom right pane of the modeling area.

Ctrl + Enter

Inserts a line break for text attributes, such as free-form texts, object names, etc.

Ctrl + F

Opens the Find bar.

Click the bar button Find Search to show the Find bar that you can use to have objects selected in the model.

Find bar

Ctrl + F4

Closes the model tab. If changed models have not yet been saved, the system displays a message to notify you. You can cancel the dialog and save the model or leave the model page without saving.

Ctrl + Home

Displays the upper left pane of the modeling area.

Ctrl + left arrow

Moves selected items to the left by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + Page down

Switches to the next web browser tab from left to right if your web browser supports changing tabs using the keyboard.

Ctrl + Page up

Switches to the next web browser tab from right to left if your web browser supports changing tabs using the keyboard.

Ctrl + right arrow

Moves selected items to the right by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + S

Saves your changes.

Ctrl + Shift + V

Inserts a definition copy of an object if an object is in the clipboard.

Ctrl + up arrow

Moves selected items upwards by increments of one pixel.

Ctrl + V

Pastes the content of the clipboard if this is content that can be placed in the modeling area. If an object is in the clipboard, an occurrence copy of the object is inserted.

Ctrl + X

Cuts selected items and copies them to the clipboard.

Ctrl + Y

Redoes editing steps that were undone.

Ctrl + Z

Undoes preceding editing steps.

Del

Removes selected object symbols or deletes selected items, such as free-form text and graphic objects.

Down arrow

Moves the modeling area contents up (the contents of the modeling area that are further down will be displayed).

Enter

Ends the input.

Esc

Removes selections and closes dialogs. Closing dialogs with the ESC key is the same as clicking Cancel.

F2

Selects the selected text attribute of an element or the object name of a selected object for editing.

F3

Opens the Find bar. When the find bar is open, pressing the F3 key jumps to the next occurrence of the searched term.

Click the bar button Find Search to show the Find bar that you can use to have objects selected in the model.

Find bar

F5

Updates the current view based on the database changes.

F11

Turns full-screen mode on or off if your web browser supports full screen.

Left arrow

Moves the modeling area contents to the right (the contents of the modeling area that are further left will be displayed).

- (minus)

Reduces the display of the model content by 10%.

Page down

Scrolls the screen down. The scroll distance may vary depending on the application.

Page up

Scrolls the screen up. The scroll distance may vary depending on the application.

+ (plus)

Enlarges the display of the model content by 10%.

Right arrow

Moves the modeling area contents to the left (the contents of the modeling area that are further right will be displayed).

Shift

Keeps the shapes of a circle and a square when you place and scale the graphic objects Circle/Ellipse and Square/Rectangle.

Shift + Del

Deletes a structurally relevant object without creating a connection between the remaining objects when you use Smart Modeling.

Shift + down arrow

Moves the object one grid to the left.

Shift + left arrow

Moves the object down one grid.

Shift + Page down

Moves the contents of the modeling area page by page to the right (the contents of the modeling area that are further left will be displayed).

Shift + Page up

Moves the contents of the modeling area page by page to the left (the contents of the modeling area that are further right will be displayed).

Shift + right arrow

Moves the object one grid to the right.

Shift + up arrow

Moves the object one grid up.

Up arrow

Moves the modeling area contents down (the contents of the modeling area that are further up will be displayed).