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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
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      DavidBoulder's image of his key assignments makes me think it would be nice to have a keyboard with the various tool icons instead of letters.

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      • thomthomT Offline
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        @dave r said:

        DavidBoulder's image of his key assignments makes me think it would be nice to have a keyboard with the various tool icons instead of letters.

        If you have a few greens to spare...
        http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

        http://img.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/optimus_maximus_01w.jpg

        If you go to the Demo page you can see a layout for Photoshop.
        http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/demo/

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          (www.artlebedev.com)

          http://img.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/optitact-color.jpg

          http://img.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/optitact-side.jpg

          Apparently it will be cheaper than the Optimus because it doesn't have a screen per key.

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            Though I'm not sure how nice it would be to use a keyboard without physical keys... maybe just a habit adjustment...?

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
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              Cool! But $2400US. 😲

              That would be really neat in conjunction with that tablet I'm eying.

              I was thinking a bit lower tech. Like a keyboard with transparent key covers that could be removed and little icons printed on paper inserted.

              ThinkGeek shows it at $1600US but not available.

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              • Dave RD Offline
                Dave R
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                That could be cool. I see your point but you could make it so frequently used keys are bigger or in easier to reach locations.

                Even the Aux which appears to be only a prototype would be good.

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                • thomthomT Offline
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                  It can display video on its surface. ...so maybe a 3d model...?

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
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                    That would be neat.

                    I was looking at the Project Blog and there's a compact keyboard in the works with larger displays on the keys (64x64) and expected to sell for under $1000US. Of course that was from June. Who knows what's really going to be available.

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                    • DavidBoulderD Offline
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                      I had thought it would be a nice interface to assign keyboard shortcuts to have a keyboard image that you could just drag tools into vs. the current method. Another thing that would be nice (short of improved GUI to assign keyboard shortcuts) is a plugin that would generate a keyboard shortcut screenshot based on your current settings.

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                      • Dave RD Offline
                        Dave R
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                        David, those are great ideas. There's a plugin to generate a list of the assigned keyboard shortcuts. I wonder if it is possible to make a plugin that would paste PNG images at specified coordinates over a drawing of the keyboard.

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                        • EarthMoverE Offline
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                          Drumming up an old thread....but is there anyway to access a list of assigned keyboard shortcuts and perhaps export them as .csv? I'm teaching my wife Sketchup and want to get her used to the shortcuts I have setup, but am being too lazy to write them all down.

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                          • Dave RD Offline
                            Dave R
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                            There's a plugin that will create a list of the assigned shortcuts. I think it is called shortcuts.rb. I'll see if I can find the link.

                            Here you go: http://rld.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=373

                            You can then copy the shortcuts from the list and paste them into whatever sort of document you want.

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                            • Rich O BrienR Offline
                              Rich O Brien Moderator
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                              There's also this....

                              http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=266379#p266379

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                                numerobis
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                                i have my standart modeling tools assigned to mouse buttons in combination with "shift", "strg" and "alt" (the mouse buttons no.3-5 have assigned the function keys "F3", and "F8" and "F10" assigned)
                                I can select them without thinking. It's more like finger gestures that happen automatically.
                                The resulting combinations are at the moment:

                                F3..........................pointer/select
                                F3+shift.................push/pull
                                F3+ctrl...................mirror selection (plugin)
                                F3+alt....................line
                                F8..........................move
                                F8+shift.................rotate
                                F8+ctrl..................scale
                                F8+alt...................rectangle
                                F3+shift+ctrl..........tape measure
                                F3+shift+alt...........circle
                                F8+shift+ctrl..........fredo scale - box scaling
                                F8+ctrl+alt............follow me
                                F3+shift+ctrl+alt....paint bucket
                                F8+shift+ctrl+alt....offset

                                and some keyboard only:

                                ^............................reverse face
                                X............................toggle x-ray
                                Q............................remove all materials
                                H............................toggle hidden geometry
                                G............................make group
                                G+shift...................make component
                                v............................field of view
                                z............................zoom extends

                                T+shift+ctrl............uv-frontface to backface
                                T+shift+alt.............uv-backface to frontface
                                T+shift+ctrl+alt......delete backside material

                                and some standart shortcuts like
                                shift+ctrl+v............paste in place
                                T............................top view
                                .
                                .
                                .

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