This is a rather simple suggestion that I believe can greatly help newcomers learn the hotkeys.
When you hover over a tool icon, a small bubble appears displaying the tool name, but not the associated hotkey. Adding the associated hotkey would help newcomers learn the tool shortcuts.
For Example: Changing the popup text for the paint tool from “Paint” to “Paint (B)”.
That’s all.
PS: Whats the shortcut for the “Search SketchUp” tool?
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Hey @stphnl329: we like your suggestion. As Gerit mentioned, the default hotkeys are available on look up through Search in SketchUp for Web. (Incidentally, the shortcut for search is “Shift + /” or “Shift +S”).
Considering that shortcuts really help people learn and speed up their modeling, we will probably take a look at how to surface shortcuts when we update our tooltips early next year.
I just emailed support about this before seeing there’s a forum topic. I guess in general, the first letter of the tool’s name is the key to switch to that tool.
Searching for the terms “sketchup basic navigation” has a lot of noise generated by partial information, covering 4 commonly used tools. That is frustrating that kind of query doesn’t direct me to a SketchUp official manual of sorts.
Then I search for “list of sketchup hotkeys”. And was surprised to find exactly what I needed as the top result:
Now if I bookmark that, I’ll be able to find it quicker next time.
