Sketch is a lightweight, easy to use vector design tool for the digital design born small but powerful, and has an elegant interface. Sketch also for icon design and interface design born, it is lightweight easy to learn, an experienced designer will be able to spend hours freely use their design skills in the Sketch. Many times due to its light weight makes it easier for us to use the mouse to complete, while ignoring some of its better with a more efficient operation and shortcut keys, in our study and work, you can learn it some obscure shortcuts improve operational efficiency, but also allows us to work more efficiently. The small series finishing Sketch need to know the keyboard shortcuts!
Please install Sketch 55 for mac (vector drawing software) v55.2 (latest version updated 10-6-13)
General shortcuts
control + h: toggle lever
control + l: switching alignment guides
control + g: switching grid
Space: Small hand tools
Enter: Edit the currently selected layer
⌘ + 3: Scroll to the selected layer
⌘ + 2: amplifying the selected layer
Z: Zoom tool. Press click or drag with a mouse and a zoom area, the zoom inverted with Z + Alt + Click
Escape: Exit, exit the current tool, uncheck all layers, or back in the Inspector
Tab / Shift-tab: switching the current layer in the selected combination
Insert Layer
r: Insert a rectangle (the Rectangle)
o: inserting an ellipse (Oval)
l: inserts a straight line (Line)
u: Insert a rounded rectangle (Rounded)
t: Insert a text layer (Text)
v: vector layer (the Vector)
p: Pencil Tool (Pencil)
Move and scale layers
alt + drag: make a copy of the layer
`Alt + hover: displaying and other layers of the spacing
alt + resize: scaling from both ends toward the middle
changing the size of shift +: scaling
These are some hidden shortcuts, of course, there are many shortcuts are listed in the menu. Proficient in the use of keyboard shortcuts will help you greatly improve work efficiency.
Hidden command
Sketch has some hidden parameter, for some advanced applications. To use these commands, open the Terminal application, enter these commands. For the command to take effect, Sketch need to restart. Want to disable any of these settings, set YES to NO, or vice versa.
defaults write com.bohemiancoding.sketch svgExportSkipAssignIdToLayerName -bool YES
When this item is set to YES, Sketch when you export SVG files, you will not use the name of the layer as the ID field.
These are the small series bring sketch describes commonly used shortcuts for everyone. There are more detailed, useful features, We Come concerned about the small series!