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Although it’s good for you to be familiar with tool icons, a more efficient use of your RAM is to remember a tool’s default keyboard shortcut: the simple keyboard input for activating a tool.

We introduce and practice the following shortcuts throughout the book, so there’s no need to bust out index cards and remember them now. But for posterity, this baker’s dozen of shortcuts are those that we think are worth remembering:

 Select (spacebar)

 Line (L)

 Eraser (E)

 Arc (A)

 Rectangle (R)

 Circle (C)

 Push/Pull (P)

 Paint Bucket (B)

 Move (M)

 Rotate (Q)

 Scale (S)

 Tape measure (T)

 Undo (Ctrl+Z) (Mac: ⌘ +Z)

Why are these shortcuts worth remembering? As with shortcuts in other software, activating tools with keystrokes is quicker than moving your mouse to a tool icon or menu location. Also, it takes more of your mental energy to remember where a tool icon or listing is. It costs you less time and less energy to remember the tool as a simple shortcut. And because you’ll be jumping between these tools almost constantly in SketchUp, knowing the keyboard shortcuts adds up to a lot of saved time and energy!

In SketchUp for Web, if you need to look up a tool’s shortcut while modeling, just use Search to find the tool by its name. There’s even a shortcut for Search: Shift + /.