Reply To: Underscored letter Shortcuts – faster workflow

[Dwayne Savage]

As for speeding up workflow. There are a few options and key maps I setup. The real power of pie menus is if you hold the key down. For example press and hold Ctrl+tab to get mode pie menu. Now you only have to move the mouse cursor towards the option when you hit the circle it will be highlighted. Let go of the key and it select that item. As you gain muscle memory the pie menu becomes faster. Now with that said. In preferences->keymap- there is an option for pie menu on drag. This makes pressing tilde(technically the grave accent) gives you fly/walk mode. Hold tilde down and move mouse give view pie menu. Tab toggles edit mode. Hold tab and drag get mode pie menu. Z toggles wireframe. Hold Z and drag get shading pie menu. If you choose to check extra shading pie menu items it will add 2 options to the shader pie menu. Toggle X-ray mode and toggle overlays. That’s 15 hotkeys made into 3 and a mouse movement just by checking 2 boxes. 

Then you can click key-binding button and in search field type grave. Then in key maps below under 3D view you have view and view navigation(the first one since there are 2). On view click the assign key box. It’s the one to the left of the x button. Type d. On the first view navigation expand it. Where it says click. Click that and change it to double click. Then click in assign key box and press d. Why d? It’s on the home row for typing. This is closer to other common hotkey. So that’s d does nothing. D and drag gives view pie. Hold d and hold left mouse button gives you draw annotations. Hold d and right mouse button to erase annotations. Double pressing d to enter fly/walk mode. 

In preferences under themes expand 3D Viewport and find face orientation front click the color and change the alpha to 0. This way you can leave face orientation checked under overlays drop-down. The blue won’t show, but if you see red then you know you are looking at the back of the face. Then again you may not run into that problem as much as I do.