Keyboard Shortcuts
See also
For the foundational Blender shortcuts (navigation, selection, transform, edit mode, loop cut, extrude, knife, duplicate, parameters panel, modifiers, render) — see the Golden Twelve card admonition below. The EM-Tools-specific shortcuts on this page are composed on top of the Golden Twelve.
Recommended prerequisite — The Golden Twelve
Before you author proxies, build LOD geometry, or work with semantic shapes in Blender, make sure you have the foundational shortcut grammar fluent. The Golden Twelve is a two-page reference card covering the twelve keyboard-shortcut command families that appear in every EM modelling workflow — navigation, selection, add & position, transform, edit mode, extrude, loop cut, knife, duplicate, parameters panel, modifiers, render. The shortcuts have been stable since Blender 1.0 (1995), so the skill survives every future Blender release.
Cite as: Demetrescu, E. (2026). The Golden Twelve: Reference Card for 3D Cultural Heritage Modelling (v1.0). Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21068528 (CC-BY-SA 4.0). A companion paper is in submission to Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage.
EMtools provides keyboard shortcuts for common operations in the 3D Viewport. All shortcuts are context-aware and only work when relevant data is available.
Shortcut |
Action |
Description |
|---|---|---|
SHIFT+F5 (Win/Linux) FN+SHIFT+F5 (macOS) |
Reload GraphML |
Reloads the active GraphML file from disk |
Option+F (macOS) Alt+F (Win/Linux) |
Select List Item |
Selects the list element corresponding to the active 3D proxy |
Note
More shortcuts will be added in future versions. The system is designed to be easily expandable.