Shortcut keys

suSteve

Hi I reset the shortcut keys by accident. Is there a way to get them back and if not does anyone have a shortcut.plist that I can use

thank you

Box

There is a reset button in Preferences.
Might be different on Mac.

suSteve

Thanks

when I reset it clears the shortcuts. I pressed reset and lost everything. Pressing reset now does nothing.

any ideas?

thanks

Dave R

The reset button is to put it back to factory defaults which you did and which is why there's no further change when you click on it again. You could look for the shortcuts plist but it was probably overwritten when you hit the button.

It should be under your ~User/Library/Application Support/SketchUp 2013/SketchUp

Box

Sorry, I misread your question and thought you wanted to go to default.

suSteve

thanks the plist is empty. Could someone please attach a Shortcuts.plist so I can replace mine?

thanks again

Box

But everyone's shortcuts will be different.

Dave R

As Box says, it won't be the same as yours. In any case, here's mine from SU2013. You can change the extension back to .plist and drop it into the folder. See what happens.

It would be best to make your own again and then perhaps make a copy of the plist and save it somewhere else.

Shortcuts.txt

suSteve

Thank you. I appreciate they are different but it gives me a good starting point.

thanks again for the help

numerobis

@dave r said:

In any case, here's mine from SU2013. You can change the extension back to .plist and drop it into the folder. See what happens.

It would be best to make your own again and then perhaps make a copy of the plist and save it somewhere else.

Interesting. So is it possible to edit the file and write it back? This would be a big improvement. I really don't understand why there still only is this tiny, confusing scroll window. And the export/import never worked for me - in v8, i have to try it in 2014.

Dave R

The plist file we've been talking about is a Mac thing. You could find the .dat file that SketchUp on Windows generates and edit that. Probably the easiest thing is to use the filter option in the Shortcuts window instead of scrolling through the small scroll window.

numerobis

Thanks!