Hot Keys and Shortcuts

The Hot Keys, native to OpenCPN, are described below.These may not work for you, depending on other settings on your computer.
 
  • Ctrl + Space Man Over Board, sets MOB Marker at current GPS position.
  • Left clicking on a chart, centers the chart on that point.
  • Double clicking a vector chart, displays all info for that point (exception below).
  • When the cursor becomes a green arrow, clicking pans in the direction od the arrow.
  • Double clicking on an AIS target, displays the target query dialog.
  • Double clicking on a mark or waypoint, displays the Mark Properties Dialog
  • Double clicking on a route or track, displays the Route/Track Properties Dialog
  • Right clicking on any chart, access a context sensitive menu.
  • Keyboard Arrow Keys. Moves the chart view
  • Alt + Arrow Keys. Moves the chart view in very small steps.
  • +  Zoom In,
  • -  Zoom Out
  • Ctrl + for fine scale zooming in.
  • Ctrl - for fine scale zooming out.
  • Ctrl + scroll wheel, zooming in/out in small steps.
  • Esc ends the process of  route creation or stops the measure pencil.
  • F2 Toggle Auto Follow on / off.
  • F4 Starts the measure tool. Esc Stops it.
  • F5 Toggle Daylight, Dusk and Night mode, if it is built into the Chart.
  • F6 General Dimming, in steps, of the entire Screen.
  • SHIFT + F6 reverses the dimming.
  • F7 or Ctrl + Left-Arrow     Larger Scale Chart (Scale In)
  • F8 or Ctrl + Right-Arrow   Smaller Scale Chart (Scale Out)
  • F9  Chart Quilting temoratily off/on, if quilting is on in the ToolBox
  • F11 Toggle Full Screen view. 
  • Enter or Space Drops a Marker at current GPS position.
  • Ctrl + B hide/show the Chart Bar.
  • Ctrl + G cycles through (monochromatic) green, red and normal screen.∗
  • Ctrl + M Drops Marker at current cursor position.
  • Ctrl + Q Quits OpenCPN
  • Ctrl + R Starts the Routing tool. Esc ends creating route.
  • Ctrl + Y Redo Mark/waypoint  create, move or delete.
  • Ctrl + Z Undo  Mark/waypoint create, move or delete.
  • L toggles all Lights on/off. ENC Mariners Standard display category.
  • O or F12 Show / Hide Chart Outlines.
  • T or F3 Show / Hide ENC Text.
  • S Show / Hide ENC soundings. 
  • A Show /Hide bottom features, usefull when anchoring.
  • D Show /Hide  CM93 Detail Slider. Hide only works, if the slider lost focus.
∗ Ctrl-G may not work on some Windows systems, depending upon the graphics driver implemented.

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