Hotkey Movement Controls

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.

Commands

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

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