Reference
Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
Every keyboard shortcut, mouse action and touch gesture — undo, duplicate, export, fit to screen, connector dragging, pinch zoom and rubber-band select.
Reading this list
⌘ on a Mac, Ctrl everywhere else. The same list is in the app under Help, and both are generated from the same source, so this page cannot fall out of date with the app.
Everywhere
- ⌘/Ctrl + Z
- Undo
- ⇧ + ⌘/Ctrl + Z
- Redo
- ⌘/Ctrl + D
- Duplicate the selection
- ⌘/Ctrl + A
- Select everything
- ⌘/Ctrl + K
- Browse starting points
- ⌘/Ctrl + S
- Save this diagram to your disk
- ⇧ + ⌘/Ctrl + S
- Save every diagram to your disk
- ⌘/Ctrl + O
- Open a diagram file from your disk
- ⌘/Ctrl + E
- Download PNG
- ⇧ + ⌘/Ctrl + E
- Download SVG
- ⌘/Ctrl + B
- Toggle the sidebar
- ⌘/Ctrl + 0
- Fit the diagram to the screen
- Wheel / pinch
- Zoom toward the pointer
On the free-form canvas
- Double-click empty space
- Add a shape there
- Double-click a shape
- Edit its text
- Hover a shape, drag a blue dot
- Draw a connector
- …and drop on empty space
- Create the next shape, already connected
- Drag
- Move the selection
- Drag a corner handle
- Resize
- Drag on empty space
- Rubber-band select
- Shift + click
- Add to or remove from the selection
- Hold Space, or H
- Pan the canvas
- Alt while dragging
- Ignore snapping
- Arrow keys
- Nudge (Shift for bigger steps)
- Delete / Backspace
- Delete the selection
Touch and trackpad
- Tap
- Select a shape, or an item on an auto-layout diagram
- Double-tap a shape
- Edit its text
- Drag one finger
- Move the selection, or pan on empty space
- Pinch with two fingers
- Zoom
- Drag two fingers
- Pan
- Double-tap empty space
- Fit the whole diagram on screen
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