SketchUp Keyboard Shortcuts: The Complete Cheat Sheet (2026)

Learning SketchUp's keyboard shortcuts is the single fastest way to speed up your modeling. Reaching for a toolbar button breaks your flow; a keystroke keeps your eyes on the model. Here's the complete cheat sheet, organized by what you're actually doing rather than one giant alphabetical list — because you learn them faster grouped by task.

These are the default shortcuts. If any conflict with your habits, you can remap every one of them (covered at the end).

Drawing tools

The tools you use to create geometry:

Push/Pull (P) is the one that defines SketchUp — it turns a 2D face into 3D. Commit it to muscle memory first.

Modifying tools

Moving, copying, and transforming what you've drawn:

A key trick: hold Ctrl (Windows) or Option (Mac) while using Move (M) to copy instead of move. Combined with typing a distance and then a multiplier (like 5x), it creates evenly spaced arrays — one of SketchUp's most powerful habits.

Navigation and view

Getting around your model:

A 3-button scroll-wheel mouse is essentially required for SketchUp — orbit, pan, and zoom all live on the middle button, and they're the moves you'll do thousands of times a day.

Essential system shortcuts

The universal ones that save the most time:

How to set custom shortcuts

Every shortcut above is remappable, and setting your own for the tools you use most is worth five minutes:

1. Go to Window → Preferences (Windows) or SketchUp → Settings (Mac)
2. Select the Shortcuts panel
3. Find the command in the list, or search for it
4. Click in the "Add Shortcut" field and press your desired key combination
5. Assign, and you're done

A common workflow tip: assign single-key shortcuts to the tools you reach for constantly (like a plugin you use hourly) so they're as fast as the built-in ones.

Print it out

The fastest way to learn these is to keep them visible until they're automatic. Screenshot the tables above, or keep this page open in a tab, for your first week — the shortcuts move to muscle memory faster than you'd expect, and once they do, your modeling speed roughly doubles.

Where to go next

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