The eCAD editor
While the Diagram, PCB, Symbol or Pads workbench is active, the document's tab draws that workbench's editor where the 3D view goes: the wiring diagram, the schematic and board, the part's symbol, or its pads. Switch to any other workbench and the 3D view comes back. The editor's tools are the workbench's buttons in the toolbar row, and its side panels are the Assembly parts and Inspector dock tabs.
One document, one undo
Every edit you make in the editor is an edit of the open document: it lights the tab's unsaved dot, reaches the autosave, and is one step of the document's undo history, alongside the model's feature edits. Ctrl+Z takes back the newest edit wherever it was made, and Ctrl+Y or Ctrl+Shift+Z redoes it. Typing into one field is one step until the keyboard leaves that field, so typing a reference, clicking away and typing there again later takes two presses to undo.
Escape and Delete
In Diagram, PCB, Symbol and Pads, Escape cancels the operation in progress and returns to Select in one press, wherever the pointer is. This also drops an unfinished wire, routed track or shape, and cancels a move in progress. An open menu takes Escape first to close.
Delete or Backspace removes the selected item, even with the pointer over a side panel. Ctrl+Z restores it. Deleting a PCB component removes it from both that board and its schematic; its native assembly part remains available in Assembly parts. With a text field focused, these keys edit the text instead.
The tool card
Two settings belong to the moment you use a tool rather than to any selection, so they sit in a card over the top right of the editor rather than in a panel you might have closed:
- Label name, while the Label tool is armed on a PCB's schematic. The field takes the keyboard as the tool arms, so type the name, then click a wire or pin to place it.
- Stock part for new connections, in a wiring diagram while the Select tool is up. Each connection you draw after that carries this stock part number.
Tabs and sketches
Each open document has its own diagram, board, symbol and pads, and switching tabs keeps each one's pan, zoom and view. Choosing one of these workbenches while a sketch is being edited finishes the sketch first, exactly as its Finish button does, so the drawing is kept.