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Home Design Design Tutorials Zbrush Tutorial ZBrush Shortcuts
 

ZBrush Shortcuts

Updated June 28, 2023

ZBrush Shortcuts

 

 

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 with its many characteristics created with usability in mind. ZBrush enables you to generate only your fantasy, with the capacity to sculpt up to a billion polygons.

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The Z Brush menus operate together non-linear and mode-free, 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 the item
Description of the alternative item Ctrl Plus Alt Plus cursor on the item
Allocate Custom hotkey Ctrl Plus Alt Plus press the product
Select Master Projection G
Spotlight and Lightbox
Display/conceal  Lightbox  , (press comma )
Load Choose Item Double-click on the thumbnail of the lightbox
Switch the Spotlight on/off Shift Plus Z
Display/hide the Dial of Spotlight z
Edit mode Navigation
Rotating Free Mouse Click & drag the 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 the Position of the 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 a 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
The curve will be deleted Click Alt  Plus  draw across the 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 the 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 the position of the Object  mode W
Change the position of the Object Click Plus drag the center
Alternate mesh Ctrl Plus Click Plus
Bend weave Alt Plus, press the spin center or the start zone
Extend mesh The furthest from the 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 the 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 your fresh shortcut

Conclusion

In this article, ZBrush Shortcuts, we have seen that Shortcuts or hotkeys are keyboard mixes with 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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