Everything the keyboard and the mouse do in EasyCAS, on one page. Print it
and keep it next to the screen for the first week.
| Keys | Action | Lesson |
|---|
| F1 | Help on the control under the mouse pointer — in any window,
the cyclogram included. Point, do not click. | 2 |
| F2 | Rename the selected element (Rename ID). | 5 |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo. | 4 |
| Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+Shift+Z | Redo. | 4 |
| Ctrl+C | Copy the selection. In a table of the Item tab
or the card: copy the value of the current row. | 4 |
| Ctrl+V | Paste, slightly offset from the original. | 4 |
| Ctrl+A | Select every object. | 4 |
| Del | Delete the current object or the selection, with its
connections. | 4 |
| Shift+arrows | Nudge by one unit; a run of nudges is one undo
step. On a zone, moves its label. | 4 |
| Ctrl+Home | Move the program window to the top left
corner of the screen. | — |
| Enter in the ID box of the item bar | Rename the current element to
the typed ID. | 5 |
| Esc during a calculation | Skip the check of recommended
substitutions; in a dynamic run or a variant calculation, stop the run. | 8 |
| / in this guide | Search the guide. | — |
| Action | Result |
|---|
| Click an object | Make it current; a group is taken whole. |
| Drag over empty space | Rubber-band selection. |
| Drag an object | Move it (and its selection). |
| Ctrl+click an object | Add it to the selection or remove it. |
| Ctrl+click a free connection point | Start a hand-drawn
polyline. |
| Alt+click | Bring the object and its group forward. |
| Shift+Ctrl+click | Send the object and its group
backward. |
| Shift+click | Raise a single object above the others, without its
group. |
| Double-click an object | Pull it up to the item it is connected to, until the
points meet. |
| Press on an outlet, release on an inlet | Make a connection, routed
automatically. |
| Right button on a taken connection point | Break that connection. |
| Right button on an object | Its context menu. |
| Right button on empty space | Paste at the cursor, when the clipboard holds a
fragment. |
| Right button while drawing a polyline | Cancel the whole line. |
| Ctrl+wheel | Zoom the sheet. |
| Ctrl+Shift+wheel | Scale the current object. |
The colour shows the kind of the point, not whether it is taken. Each point holds one
connection.
| Action | Result |
|---|
| Click a green value cell | Edit it; Enter confirms. |
| Double-click a ↔ row | The list of replacements. |
| Double-click Compressor selection, Audit measurement data |
Open that window. |
| Double-click ▲ Warning, » Recommendation | The Problems panel on
that entry. |
| Click the unit cell of a row | A unit of its own for that row, on every
element. |
| Right button on a row | Copy value, Copy row, Copy all (tab-separated, for
Excel). |
| Action | Result |
|---|
| Left button on a band | Move the visor. |
| Ctrl+wheel | Zoom the time axis around the pointer. |
| Wheel button or right button, dragged | Pan the time axis. |
| Double-click | The whole run. |
| Wheel | Scroll the bands when they do not fit. |
| Drag a band by its scale or caption | Move it; drop it on another band to merge
the two. |
| Right-click a band or a row of the list | Move up / down, merge, separate,
hide. |
In the Measurement data window: wheel — zoom, right button — pan, left button —
the analysis period, double-click — the whole range.