Keyboard shortcuts

Everything the editor does without a menu bar.

AEC Markup is built for a Mac book and a trackpad: the pointer belongs to the drawing, so the tools are on letters, the pan is on the space bar, and undo is where your thumb expects it.

Navigate the sheet

Space-drag, or two-finger drag

Pan the drawing

⌘ + / ⌘ −

Zoom in and out

Pinch, or ⌘ + scroll

Zoom around the pointer

⌘ 0

Fit the sheet to the window

Page Up / Page Down

Previous and next sheet

Esc

Cancel the mark you are drawing

Tools

Select — click a mark, drag to move it

Calibrate: drag between two points and type the real distance

L / A / P / N

Length · Area · Perimeter · Count

C / R / E / W / I

Cloud · Rectangle · Ellipse · Arrow · Line

F / T / H / S

Freehand · Text · Highlight · Status stamp

⇧ + drag

Constrain to horizontal, vertical or 45° while drawing

Edit

⌘ Z / ⇧ ⌘ Z

Undo and redo

⌫

Delete the selected mark

⌘ D

Duplicate the selected mark

Right-click

Context menu for the mark under the pointer

⌘ A

Select every mark on the sheet

Double-click a measurement

Edit its label

Files

⌘ O

Open a PDF drawing set from this Mac

⌘ S

Save now (the app also autosaves)

⌘ E

Export the marked-up PDF

⌘ ⇧ E

Export the CSV schedule

How a takeoff works here

Open the set — the PDF is read in the browser and never uploaded.
Calibrate each sheet once: a preset from the title block, or two points and a known dimension. The calibration is editable, and changing it recalculates the sheet's measurements.
Measure with the takeoff tools; each mark gets a label and a group, so the totals panel can add up "Level 1 – partitions" without a spreadsheet.
Mark up with clouds, arrows, notes and status stamps on layers you can hide or lock.
Export the flattened marked-up PDF for the other side, the CSV schedule for pricing, and the printable sheet for the file.

Where your drawings live

In your browser, and nowhere else. The server keeps the project — sheet names, calibration, measurements and marks — so a set opened on another Mac picks up where you left off, but the PDF itself is never sent to us. That is why the sheet rail asks you to re-open the file when you come back: it is matching the drawing you already have, not fetching a copy.