Tool Shortcuts

Overview

Use keyboard shortcuts to switch tools without opening menus. The current tool changes immediately and stays active until you switch back to selection.

Tool Keys

• V — Selection tool
• T — Text tool
• R — Rectangle tool
• O — Ellipse tool

Notes

• Switching to a tool enables draw mode for that tool.
• Press V to return to selection mode.

Auto Layout Keys

• Shift + A — Toggle Auto Layout on the selected frame/group, or suggest + wrap a multi-selection in a new Auto Layout frame. Multi-selection wrapping uses a tight zero-padding wrapper by default.
• Ctrl + Shift + A — Remove Auto Layout from the selected container, or from the parent Auto Layout container when a child is selected.
• X — Toggle Auto Gap mode (packed / space-between) on the selected Auto Layout container.
• Ctrl + Arrow — Reorder the selected Auto Layout item within its parent container.
• Arrow — When the selected object is a direct child of a Grid auto-layout container, move it by one Grid cell instead of nudging by pixels.
• Shift + Arrow — In Grid auto-layout, jump the selected item farther across cells on the same shared move command.