# Tinkercad

Basic Controls

<div id="bkmrk-copy%3A-ctrl-%2B-c-paste">- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Copy: </span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl + C</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Paste: </span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl + V</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Duplicate: </span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl + D</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Delete: </span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">Delete</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Undo: </span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl + Z</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Redo: </span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl + Y</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Show all: </span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl + shift + H</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Bundle group (</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl + B</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">) -Join shapes together so you can move and resize them at the same time without making them one shape.</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Union group (</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl + G</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">) - Join shapes together to make one big shape. Solid parts add more, and holes take pieces away.</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Ungroup (</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl + shift + G</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">) -Break apart any group into its original shapes.</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Align (</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">L</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none"><span style="color: rgb(52, 73, 94);">)</span> - Arrange shapes by their sides, centers, tops, or bottoms. Use the dot handles to preview alignment. Pin a shape so others align to it while it stays in place. Select it again to unpin.</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Mirror (</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">M</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">) - Flip shapes front to back, side to side, or up and down by pressing the arrows.</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Cruise ( </span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">C </span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">) - Slide a shape smoothly along another surface to place it just where you want it.</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Shape Workplace (</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">E</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">) -Use the shape’s original work surface to make changes to it.</span>
- <span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">Drop to workplane (</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">D</span><span class="a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none">) - drop any selected shapes to the workplane.</span>
- Rotate plate: <span style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">hold right mouse button</span>
- Select object: <span style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">click left mouse</span>
- Center on object: <span style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">F</span>
- Ruler: <span style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">R</span>
- Lock editing : <span style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">ctrl +L</span>
- Change workplane: <span style="color: rgb(45, 194, 107);">W</span>

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- Intersecting a solid object with a hole object will remove the intersecting space

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