Mirror Objects Faster with Keyboard Shortcuts
In this quick tip, we look at how to quickly mirror objects with keyboard shortcuts. These keyboard shortcuts work in Vectric Aspire, VCarve, and Cut2D.
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Video Transcript:
Hey everyone in today's quick tip, we're going to look at keyboard shortcuts to mirror objects and the way to mirror objects without using your keyboard is by going into transform objects and using the mirror tool. You can select that and you can select your objects and then you have the option to mirror it either horizontally or vertically. But there are also keyboard shortcuts to do all of this without opening this tool.
So to access those keyboard shortcuts, you can go to this little question mark at the top here, that'll open up your web browser and you can see down here is all the mirroring shortcuts, and that's to mirror horizontally and vertically. So we're going to go through all these shortcuts. And also to note this one down here, control V to mirror a copy vertically.
This is the only one that does not work for me because control V is also the keyboard shortcut to paste objects. So I'm not sure exactly how to use this one, but all of the other ones I'll show you how to use. So we're going to go back into Vectric. We're going to close our mirror tool and with our object selected here, if we just want to mirror these shapes horizontally, we just type in the letter H and you can see that we'll flip these right around.
And if we want to go back, we can do undo. If we want to flip these objects vertically, we type the letter V and that'll flip it over vertically. And then you can either type V again, flip it back, or click your undo button if you want to bring it back. Okay so that was only if you want to flip the object and not make a copy.
Now, if you do want to make a copy. And flip horizontally, you would hold the control key and the letter H and you could see that will put a copy on top of this and it also will flip it over. So if you were to double click on that, to go in the transform mode and then move it, you could see now we have a copy that has flipped horizontally.
So I'm going to udo that. And now next, what I mentioned for flipping vertically and making a copy, it is supposed to be control V but you can see that only paste an object that does not work for me. So I'm not exactly sure how to use that one. So that would be the only one I would use the mirror tool for. All right.
Let's select our objects again. The next thing is, if you want a mirror across the center line of your project, so right now we're on the left side here. If we wanted a mirror over to the right side, we would hold the shift key and the letter H and that'll go horizontally and let's go undo to bring it back. If we want to do that vertically, we would hold the shift key and the letter V and that would flip it vertically on the other side of the project.
And then, then we're going to undo. And the last keyboard shortcut for mirroring objects is if you want to create a copy on the other side and keep the original. So right now we're going to mirror a copy to the horizontal. So to do that, we would hold control, shift, and the letter H and you can see that will mirror and create a copy, horizontally across the center line of the project.
And then we can also select both of these. If we want to create a mirrored copy up to the top vertically, we would hold control shift, and the letter V. And you can see now we have a mirrored copy, flipped vertically across the center line of the project.
So those are the four different keyboard shortcuts you can use to mirror objects. And that just makes it a little bit quicker when you're going through a project, rather than having to open the mirror tool every time. So hopefully that tip helps you guys out. If it did make sure you like this video and subscribe for more.
So to access those keyboard shortcuts, you can go to this little question mark at the top here, that'll open up your web browser and you can see down here is all the mirroring shortcuts, and that's to mirror horizontally and vertically. So we're going to go through all these shortcuts. And also to note this one down here, control V to mirror a copy vertically.
This is the only one that does not work for me because control V is also the keyboard shortcut to paste objects. So I'm not sure exactly how to use this one, but all of the other ones I'll show you how to use. So we're going to go back into Vectric. We're going to close our mirror tool and with our object selected here, if we just want to mirror these shapes horizontally, we just type in the letter H and you can see that we'll flip these right around.
And if we want to go back, we can do undo. If we want to flip these objects vertically, we type the letter V and that'll flip it over vertically. And then you can either type V again, flip it back, or click your undo button if you want to bring it back. Okay so that was only if you want to flip the object and not make a copy.
Now, if you do want to make a copy. And flip horizontally, you would hold the control key and the letter H and you could see that will put a copy on top of this and it also will flip it over. So if you were to double click on that, to go in the transform mode and then move it, you could see now we have a copy that has flipped horizontally.
So I'm going to udo that. And now next, what I mentioned for flipping vertically and making a copy, it is supposed to be control V but you can see that only paste an object that does not work for me. So I'm not exactly sure how to use that one. So that would be the only one I would use the mirror tool for. All right.
Let's select our objects again. The next thing is, if you want a mirror across the center line of your project, so right now we're on the left side here. If we wanted a mirror over to the right side, we would hold the shift key and the letter H and that'll go horizontally and let's go undo to bring it back. If we want to do that vertically, we would hold the shift key and the letter V and that would flip it vertically on the other side of the project.
And then, then we're going to undo. And the last keyboard shortcut for mirroring objects is if you want to create a copy on the other side and keep the original. So right now we're going to mirror a copy to the horizontal. So to do that, we would hold control, shift, and the letter H and you can see that will mirror and create a copy, horizontally across the center line of the project.
And then we can also select both of these. If we want to create a mirrored copy up to the top vertically, we would hold control shift, and the letter V. And you can see now we have a mirrored copy, flipped vertically across the center line of the project.
So those are the four different keyboard shortcuts you can use to mirror objects. And that just makes it a little bit quicker when you're going through a project, rather than having to open the mirror tool every time. So hopefully that tip helps you guys out. If it did make sure you like this video and subscribe for more.
