Basically, I would like some help utilizing all these buttons so I can touch the keyboard as little as possible and keep my screen tidy without too many buttons.
Using the ctrl, shift and alt modifier keys begins to add varying levels of finger / thumb contortions and you’ll have to use a second hand for many.
I use AutoHotKey to increase the number of easier shortcut key combinations available to me that replace combinations such as ctrl + shift and especially ctrl + shift + alt.
So, I can have a single key press as a shortcut but also a quick double tap press and a long press, e.g. a single T press activates Curic’s DIO Trowel tool and a quick double T press activates the native tape measure tool.
I have a custom tag visibility plugin that toggles tags or groups of tags on / off on the fly which I access with space + key, e.g. space + N toggles the existing arrangement with the proposed arrangement, space + W toggles the wall tag, space + 1 toggles only the ground floor on / off.
space + N is actually ctrl + shift + alt + N.
This means that I can do all my fast modelling in just one scene - previously I followed the Brightman method of having various scenes set up for existing, proposed, external walls off and so on… which meant changing scenes frequently while modelling.
Everyone has something different, and often VERY different.
There’s infinite ways to make things faster. I was just thinking about activating plugins. But controlling tags and the auto hotkey thing is a step above.
I wonder if I can use the auto hotkeys on the buttons of my mouse.
Writing Code and stuff… That’s way over my head at the moment…
I wonder if I can use the auto hotkeys on the buttons of my mouse.