Introduction to ZBrush Shortcuts
ZBrush has revolutionized the 3D sector with its strong characteristics and interactive workflows. ZBrush has an exquisite design, providing today’s digital artists with the world’s most sophisticated instruments. ZBrush produces a user experience that looks extremely real and inspires the artist in it. With its many characteristics that have been created with usability in mind. ZBrush enables you to generate only your fantasy, with the capacity to sculpt up to a billion polygons.
The Z Brush menus operate together in a non-linear and mode-free way, designed according to the circularity theory. This enables fresh and distinctive interaction methods between 3D models, 2D pictures, and 2.5D pixels.
A lot of default hotkeys and mouse actions are provided with ZBrush. The user can also assign custom hotkeys for actions that they frequently use. Let’s look at a few ZBrush Shortcuts.
| Result | Shortcut Keys |
| General Shortcuts | |
| Open Workspace | Ctrl plus O |
| Save Workspace | Ctrl plus S |
| Reverse Changes | Ctrl plus Z |
| Do again | Shift plus Ctrl plus Z |
| Tool Window | Press F1 |
| Select Brushes | Press F2 |
| Select Strokes | Press F3 |
| Select Alphas | Press F4 |
| Select Textures | Press F5 |
| Select Materials | Press F6 |
| Display QuickMenu | Press Spacebar |
| Display/Conceal of Floating Palettes | TAB |
| Display Description of Item | Ctrl Plus cursor over item |
| Description of alternative item | Ctrl Plus Alt Plus cursor on item |
| Allocate Custom hotkey | Ctrl Plus Alt Plus press the product |
| Select Master Projection | G |
| Spotlight and Lightbox | |
| Display/conceal Lightbox | , (press comma ) |
| Load Choosed Item | Double click on the thumbnail of the lightbox |
| Switch the Spotlight on/off | Shift Plus Z |
| Display/hide Dial of Spotlight | z |
| Edit mode Navigation | |
| Rotating Free | Mouse Click & drag Background |
| Move | Alt Plus Click |
| Limit to 90-degree rotation | Click Plus drag |
| Scale | Alt Plus Click |
| Turn around Z-axis | Shift, Click |
| Right-Click Activation | |
| Change Position of Object | Alt Plus Right Click |
| Scale | Ctrl+Right-click |
| Rotate | Right -Click & push |
| Painting and Sculpting | |
| Draw Size | Press S |
| Shift the Focal | Press O |
| Intensity of RGB | Press I |
| Intensity of Z | Press U |
| Increase the size of the drawing by the set units | Press ] |
| Decrease the size of the drawing by the set units | Press [ |
| mode of Edit turn on/off | Press T |
| Draw | Press Q |
| Move | Press W |
| Scale | Press E |
| Rotate | Press R |
| ZAdd and ZSub Toggle | Alt (Keep it down) |
| Sculpting Brushes | |
| Display Brush pop-up | Press B |
| Standard Brush | Press B – Press S – Press T |
| Smooth Stronger | Press B – Press S – Press |
| Move Elastic | Press B – Press M – Press E |
| MPolish | Press B – Press M – Press P |
| ClipCurve | Press B – Press C – Press C |
| ClayLine | Press B – Press C – Press L |
| InsertMultiMesh | |
| Display all meshes in brush | Press M |
| Color | |
| Choose Color under the cursor | Press C |
| Switch to Color | Press V |
| Strokes | |
| Slow Moving mouse | Press L |
| The Last Stroke Replay | Press 1 |
| Record the Stroke | Press 3 |
| Replay All Strokes Recorded | Press 2 |
| Curves | |
| smooth the curve | Press 6 |
| Snapshot the curve | Press 7 |
| Curve will be delete | Click Alt Plus draw across curve |
| 3D- Models | |
| Workspace Tool for Save | Press Shift Plus Ctrl Plus T |
| Fit the mesh to see | Press F |
| Perspective | Press P |
| Grid of Floor | Press Shift Plus P |
| Enable symmetry | Press X |
| Display/conceal Polyframe & Polygroups | Press Shift Plus F |
| Mode of Point Selection | Press Shift Plus Ctrl Plus P |
| Set the point of pivot | Press Ctrl Plus P |
| Clear the Point of pivot | Press Shift Plus P |
| Snapshot the canvas variant | Shift Plus S |
| Sub-Tools | |
| List all of the SubTools | Press N |
| Choose a SubTool | Alt Plus click on SubTool |
| Toggle Colorize Polypaint | Click on the paintbrush icon |
| Clutching Polypaint Colorize for all SubTools | Click Shift Plus on the Paint Brush icon |
| Geometry | |
| Divide | Press Ctrl Plus D |
| Lower Res | Press Shift Plus D |
| Higher Res | Press D |
| Edge Loop | Press Ctrl Plus E |
| Dynamesh Shortcuts | |
| Remesh Dynamesh sculpt | Press mode Ctrl Plus Drag Background |
| HD- Geometry | |
| Toggle in / out HD Sculpting mode | A (cursor over grid) |
| Render all HD Geometry | Press A (cursor over background) |
| Masking | |
| View Mask | Press Ctrl Plus H |
| Invert Mask | Press Ctrl Plus I |
| Mask All | Press Ctrl Plus A |
| Select Masking Brush | Press Ctrl while selecting a brush from the popup |
| Paint mask on an object (alphas/strokes can be used) | Press Ctrl (hold down) |
| Delete or paint the reverse mask | Press Ctrl Plus Alt (hold down) |
| Reverse mask | Press Ctrl Plus Click Background |
| Clear Mask | Press Ctrl Plus Click Plus drag Background |
| Constant-intensity mask | Press Ctrl Plus Click, Release Ctrl, Drag |
| Alpha-intensity mask (Using Mask Pen) | Press Ctrl Plus Click & Drag |
| Blur Mask | Press Ctrl Plus Click on Mesh |
| Sharpen Mask | Press Ctrl Plus Alt Plus. Click on mesh |
| Topological Masking | |
| in Move, Scale or Rotate mode | Press Ctrl Plus, click Plus drag the action line on the model |
| Poly-Groups | |
| Group Masked and Clear Mask | Press Ctrl Plus W |
| Select Selection or Clip Brush | Press Shift Plus Ctrl |
| Display mesh portion | Press Shift Plus Ctrl Plus Click |
| Hide mesh portion | Press Shift Plus Ctrl Plus Click |
| Grow mesh portion | Press Ctrl Plus Shift Plus X |
| Shrink mesh portion | Press Ctrl Plus Shift Plus S |
| Grow all mesh portion | Press Ctrl Plus Shift Plus A |
| Outer Ring visibility | Press Ctrl Plus Shift Plus O |
| Move selection or clip area | Press Spacebar without releasing the mouse |
| Display entire mesh | Press Shift Plus Ctrl Plus Click Background |
| Display only selected Polygroup | Press Shift Plus Ctrl Plus Click |
| Hide selected Polygroup | Press Shift Plus Ctrl Plus Click twice |
| Reverse visibility | Press Shift Plus Ctrl Plus Click |
| Hide edge loop | Press Shift Plus Ctrl Plus click |
| ClipCurve adds soft direction change | Mouse click Alt once |
| ClipCurve adds sharp direction change | Mouse click Alt twice |
| Stencil | |
| Stencil On | Press Alt Plus H |
| Hide/Display Stencil | Press Ctrl Plus H |
| Coin Controller | Press Spacebar |
| ZSpheres | |
| Preview Adaptive Skin | Press A |
| Draw Mode | |
| Add a child ZSphere | drag ZSphere |
| Delete ZSphere | Press Alt Plus Click ZSphere |
| Add a child ZSphere at the same size | Click Plus drag, press Shift |
| Add a child ZSphere and scale Link Spheres | Press Ctrl Plus drag |
| Insert ZSphere | Mouse Click Link-Sphere |
| Sphere Define magnet/ break mesh | Alt Plus Click Link-Sphere |
| Ring Activities Indoors (Red / White) | |
| Change position of Object mode | W |
| Change position of Object | Click Plus drag center |
| Alternate mesh | Ctrl Plus Click Plus |
| Bend weave | Alt Plus, press the spin center or the start zone |
| Extend mesh | The furthest from mesh, pull the start line |
| Flat mesh | Drag the End Point to the Mesh |
| Inflate | Right-click Plus to move the bottom |
| Scale | Click Plus. Drag the endpoint to the line Direction |
| The scale along the spine | Press the Friction Middle Button Plus |
| Create Edgeloop and deflate / inflate | Hold Ctrl and click Plus. Drag the center point |
| Rotate | R |
| Rotate around the endpoint | Click Plus to drag the other endpoint |
| Rotate around the action line | Click the drag center Plus |
| Joint bend | Alt Plus click Plus drag the endpoint |
| Changing the Brush hotkeys | |
| Click B to get the color of paint up | |
| Then, in this instance, press on the character you want to restrict to C | |
| All you see are the buttons starting with C, turned on C. This is when you see the following document selecting the pen | |
| You can keep CTRL Plus ALT to modify your shortcut to anything you want by pressing on the pen and then typing on your fresh shortcut | |
Conclusion
In this article, ZBrush Shortcuts, we have seen that Shortcuts or hotkeys are keyboard mixes that have the same impact as ZBrush. For example, you can accelerate your working flow by focusing on your carving or painting instead of looking continuously for an interface mouse button.
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