Hotkey Movement Controls

Revision as of 17:07, 4 December 2015 by MatterHackers (Talk | contribs) (Commands)

Revision as of 17:07, 4 December 2015 by MatterHackers (Talk | contribs) (Commands)

Learn how to guide your printer using MatterControl's new hotkey movement controls feature!

Enable Hotkey Movement Controls

In order to enable hotkey movement controls, click the keyboard icon to the right of the Z+ button in the Movement Controls groupbox. The highlighted border around the hotkey button indicates that hotkey controls are enabled as shown in the image below.

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Commands

The following is a list of keyboard mappings for the Movement Control buttons in MatterControl:

Function Key
Home All Home
Home X X
Home Y Y
Home Z Z
X- Left arrow
X+ Right arrow
Y+ Up arrow
Y- Down arrow
Z+ Page Up
Z- Page Down
E+ (Extrude) E
E- (Retract) R