Frustrating Selection Cycle

Effective use of keyboard shortcuts significantly improves the efficiency of your workflow whilst reducing your reliance on toolbars and menus, and subsequently increases viewport screen real-estate. The default hotkeys are, however, not the most efficient configuration of shortcuts.

I find the cycle of selection tools with the default shortcut 'Q' incredibly frustrating. Surprisingly, in the end the solution to this issue was about as simple as they come. By default the keyboard shortcut 'Q' is set to 'Smart Select'. This causes the selection tool to cycle each time 'Q's pressed. In the 'Customize User Interface' dialogue box assign 'Q' to 'Select Object' and it'll change the cursor to select without subsequent uses of the shortcut causing selection tool cycling.


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