

A single letter will bring up the most commonly used tools, and there aren’t that many to learn. One of the keys to efficient work is using the SketchUp keyboard shortcuts instead of clicking on the tool icons. But when you’re hard at work on a model, moving the mouse to the toolbar and back again takes more time than you might think.

The tools on the toolbar are easy to figure out, and if you hover the cursor over one of the icons a tag will appear that tells you what the tool does. One of the quirks of learning SketchUp is that the obvious way of doing something isn’t necessarily the best way. THE ICONS CHANGED WITH THE RELEASE OF SKETCHUP 2013 & YOU CAN FIND AN UP-TO-DATE LIST OF KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS HERE UPDATE: THESE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ARE FOR SKETCHUP VERSIONS 8 AND EARLIER.
