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Adobe Substance 3D Painter is a texturing tool for painting realistic materials directly onto 3D models. Adobe publishes the whole default map on one page — the editable shortcuts and, separately, the ones bound to the layer stack that cannot be remapped — so this table is that list rather than a selection from it. Much of it is mouse-driven: the camera, the stencil and brush size and flow are all modifier-plus-drag.

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All Adobe Substance 3D Painter keyboard shortcuts (Windows)

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Esc
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Alt
Space
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Menu
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MMB · Camera translate
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+ 5 more controls in the table below

91 shortcuts

Navigation 21

Action Shortcut
Use tool / paint LMB
Draw straight lines ShiftLMB
Draw straight lines with snapping CtrlShiftLMB
Camera rotate AltLMB
Camera snap rotate AltShiftLMB
Camera translate AltMMB
Camera translate (alternative) CtrlAltLMB
Camera zoom AltRMB
Stencil rotate SLMB
Stencil snap rotate ShiftSLMB
Stencil translation SMMB
Stencil zoom SRMB
Change tool Size / Hardness CtrlRMB
Change tool Flow / Rotation CtrlLMB
Rotate environment ShiftRMB
Auto-Focus (Depth of Field) CtrlMMB
Texture set selection CtrlAltRMB
Context menu RMB
Set Clone tool source location VLMB
Ignore stencil mask N
Resume previous stroke A

View & Camera 18

Action Shortcut
Camera Perspective F5
Camera Orthographic F6
Display next channel C
Display previous channel ShiftC
Display material M
Display next mesh map B
Display previous mesh map ShiftB
Toggle animation Space
Export textures CtrlShiftE
Center the whole mesh F
Toggle quick mask edition U
Clear quick mask Y
Invert quick mask I
Viewport layout 3D/2D F1
Viewport layout 3D only F2
Viewport layout 2D only F3
Swap 2D / 3D view F4
Texture Set isolate AltQ

Tools 17

Action Shortcut
Select Paint tool 1
Select Paint tool + Particles Ctrl1
Select Eraser tool 2
Select Eraser tool + Particles Ctrl2
Select Projection tool 3
Select Projection tool + Particles Ctrl3
Select Polygon Fill 4
Select Smudge tool 5
Select Clone tool (relative source) 6
Select Clone tool (absolute source) Ctrl6
Bake Mesh Maps CtrlShiftB
Increase tool size ]
Decrease tool size [
Invert grayscale tool X
Pick stroke material P
Lazy Mouse D
Hide/ignore excluded geometry AltH

Layers 13

Action Shortcut
Copy layer CtrlC
Cut layer CtrlX
Paste layer CtrlV
Delete layer Del
Duplicate layer CtrlD
Group layer CtrlG
Copy layer content CtrlShiftC
Paste layer content CtrlShiftV
Display mask in viewport AltLMB
Disable/Enable mask ShiftLMB
Drag & drop material CtrlDrag
Manipulator constraint/snapping Shift
Manipulator mirror transformation Ctrl

General 11

Action Shortcut
Hide UI Tab
Undo CtrlZ
Redo CtrlY
Baking F8
Painting F9
Rendering (Iray) F10
Open project CtrlO
Close project CtrlF4
Save project CtrlS
New project CtrlN
Quit application AltF4

Manipulators 11

Action Shortcut
Show/Hide manipulator Q
Increase the manipulator size +
Decrease the manipulator size −
Cycle through manipulation spaces T
Toggle warp edition mode ShiftV
Translate tool W
Rotate tool E
Scale tool R
Surface tool ShiftW
Symmetry L
Pause engine computation ShiftEsc

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Adobe Substance 3D Painter has 91 keyboard shortcuts on Windows — the complete list is free to read on this page. The poster features the most essential ones, curated to stay readable on a wall.
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