Navigation and keyboard shortcuts

Urban offers different ways to interact with its 3D map view and its user interface:

Use mouse buttons for navigation

Use mouse buttons to navigate in the Urban map view, as listed below.

  • Left mouse button—Drag to pan around the view.
  • Right mouse button—Drag to tilt the view or rotate around the point you clicked.
  • Wheel button—Rotate the wheel to zoom in and out to preset zoom levels. Drag the wheel for continuous zoom.
Mouse buttons to navigate in

Use keyboard shortcuts for navigation

Use the following keyboard shortcuts to navigate in the Urban map view:

Keyboard shortcutDescription

+

Zoom in.

-

Zoom out.

N

Set heading north.

P

Set the view perpendicular to the ground.

J

Move down, closer to the view.

U

Move up, away from the view.

W

Tilt the camera up

S

Tilt the camera down..

A

Rotate the view counterclockwise.

D

Rotate the view clockwise.

B and drag

Rotate around from the current point of view.

Arrow keys

Move the view left, right, up, or down.

Keyboard accessibility

Use your keyboard to browse through the UI elements in Urban:

KeyDescription

Tab

Navigate forward through interactive elements.

Shift+Tab

Navigate backward through interactive elements.

Enter

Activate the current selection, for example, a button or a drop-down menu item.

Spacebar

  • Check and uncheck check boxes.
  • Expand accordions and drop-down menus.
  • Activate the current selection, for example a button or a drop-down menu item.

Arrow keys

Navigate through composite UI elements for example drop-down menu items or button options.

Escape

Close the current selection and return the focus to the last visited element.

General keyboard shortcuts

You can use the following general keyboard shortcuts in the plan editor and the project editor. To learn more about the plan editor, see Plan editor. To learn more about the project editor, see Project editor.

Keyboard shortcutDescription

Ctrl+Z

Undo

Ctrl+Shift+Z

Redo

Keyboard shortcuts to edit geometries

You can use the following keyboard shortcuts when you add or edit geometries:

Keyboard shortcutDescription

Click while pressing Shift

Select multiple parcels, spaces or existing metric values in the plan editor.

Right-click

Click a vertex to delete it.

Ctrl

Press and hold while editing to disable snapping.

Tab

Press to enter constraints (distance and angle).

Note:

Editing constraints are currently only available when adding new geometries.