Keyboard shortcuts

Every keyboard shortcut in Easelt Builder.

Easelt Builder is built for speed, and the fastest way to work is to keep your hands on the keyboard. This page lists every shortcut in the builder, grouped into four families — Editing, Transform, Canvas, and View — so you can move, rotate, zoom, and preview your dx GUIs without reaching for the mouse.

Editing

These shortcuts cover the core edit loop — undoing and redoing, moving elements between documents with the clipboard, duplicating and deleting, selecting everything at once, and saving your work.

• Undo (Ctrl+Z) steps backward through your edit history.
• Redo (Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z) — both combos do the same thing, so use whichever your fingers reach first.
• Duplicate (Ctrl+D) clones the current selection in place without touching the clipboard.
• Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) move elements through the clipboard, including between documents.
• Delete selection — Del and Backspace both remove whatever is currently selected.
• Select all (Ctrl+A) selects every element on the canvas.
• Save (Ctrl+S) persists your work.

Transform

Once something is selected, these shortcuts nudge it around the canvas and rotate it — all without leaving the keyboard. Hold Shift to change the step size for both movement and rotation.

• Arrow keys nudge the selection one step in the pressed direction; holding `Shift` applies a larger step for faster movement.
• `[` rotates the selection by -15° and `]` rotates it by +15° — a quick way to snap through common angles.
• Hold `Shift` with either bracket for fine control: Shift+[ rotates -1° and Shift+] rotates +1°.

Canvas

These shortcuts control your viewport — zooming into detail, framing your whole design, and panning around a large layout.

• `Ctrl`+scroll zooms in and out centered on your cursor, so the point under the pointer stays put.
• `Ctrl+=` zooms in and `Ctrl+-` zooms out in fixed steps.
• `Ctrl+0` zooms to fit, framing your entire design in the viewport.
• Pan by holding Space and dragging, or by dragging with the middle mouse button.

View

These shortcuts toggle editor chrome and modes — showing the alignment grid, previewing your GUI as players will see it, and backing out of whatever you're currently doing.

• `G` toggles the alignment grid on and off.
• `P` enters preview mode, hiding the editor chrome so you see your GUI exactly as it will render in-game.
• `Esc` is the universal back-out key: it deselects the current selection, stops a running Blueprint test, and exits preview mode.