Advanced users of EnSight often find themselves performing repetitive tasks. EnSight's macro facility lets you save a sequence of commands and then assign a keyboard key to those commands such that they are executed when the key is pressed. Macros are useful in full screen mode. Note: macros only work when the mouse cursor is in the graphics window. (see Define and Use Macros).

V - toggle selected part visibility

S - toggle global part highlighting

A - Press the A key to cancel saving an animation ("abort")

P - The pick key. Manually change what you are picking using the pick mode pulldown. The default is to pick a part. Simply hover over a part and press the P key and the part will be selected. Or, choose another pick mode. Change the mode to Pick cursor tool location, and move the mouse over a location on a part and press the P key and the cursor will appear at that location on the part.

When Interactive Probe Query is set to Surface pick, P will override the selected pick mode and will place the query probe on the surface of a part. If Interactive Probe Query is not set to Surface pick then P key will use the pick mode.

Use this shortcut to quickly select parts. See the Advanced section of Select Parts

Alt+# (where # is any number from 0-9) - tag selected parts

Ctrl+# - select parts tagged with this number

For the mac, these use the command button.

Ctrl-Left button - Rotation about the screen Z-axis

Ctrl-Middle click (or Right+Left buttons) - Zoom

Ctrl-Right button - Pan

See Rotate, Zoom, Translate, Scale for details on these shortcuts.

F1 - Rotate about screen X-axis by 45 degrees

F2 - Rotate about screen Y-axis by 45 degrees

F3 - Rotate about screen Z-axis by 45 degrees

Ctrl+F1/F2/F3 - Rotates -45 degrees

F4 - Spin the graphics window - with mouse motion

F5 - Front view

F6 - Side view

F7 - Top view

F8 - Return to previous view before F5/F6/F7 was pressed

F9 - Full screen (F9 or Esc to go back)

Ctrl+F5/F6/F7 - Save current view to this key

If you have a stereo graphics card and are running EnSight in stereo mode, there are some function key shortcuts that are helpful. For more information see Enable Stereo Viewing.

F10 - Increase stereo separation angle

F11 - Decrease stereo separation angle

F12 - Toggle 3D stereo on/off

Ctrl+F12 - Swap 3D stereo left/right eyes

You can see this shortcuts in the menu drop-downs. For example, see the File → Save menu has a Ctrl+S beside the command, showing the shortcut. Some of the more useful menu short cuts are as follows.

Ctrl+O - Open results dialog

Ctrl+P - Print image dialog

Ctrl+Q - Quit EnSight

Ctrl+S - Save Session file

Ctrl+Shift+S - Save commands from this session

Ctrl+C - Copy image to clipboard

Ctrl+F - Open the Feature Edit Dialog