Spline 3D Keyboard Shortcuts

42 shortcuts in 5 groups, from Spline’s official documentation (Windows keys).

The letters are not what you expect

Spline’s shape keys look scrambled until you see the logic of what was left: R draws a rectangle, but ellipse is O (the letter looks like one), triangle is K and polygon is J, because E, T and P were already spoken for elsewhere in the app. The same goes for focus: S frames the selected object and Shift + S squares the camera onto it. Two minutes with just these six keys — plus M to flip between perspective and orthographic — covers most of a modeling session.

Modifier keys do the precision work

While dragging a transform, holding Alt mirrors the change around the object’s centre, Shift locks the aspect ratio, and Shift + Alt does both. The same modifier grammar extends to selection, where Spline documents two parallel maps: in the outliner, Shift + Click selects a range and Ctrl + Click toggles items one by one; in the viewport, Shift + Click toggles and Shift + Drag marquee-selects. Adding Alt + Ctrl to any of these excludes children — the way to grab a parent without dragging its whole subtree along.

What the table deliberately leaves out

Spline’s own table also lists trackpad gestures (pinch to zoom, two-finger drag to pan, Alt + tap-and-drag to orbit) — those are gestures rather than keys, so they live here in prose instead of rows. One more gap worth knowing: the docs give Ungroup only in Mac notation (⌘⇧G); the Windows column is blank, though it pairs with Ctrl + G for grouping. And because Spline runs in the browser, Ctrl + Shift + S saves to a local file while ordinary cloud saving happens automatically.

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