Control-alt-click shortcut for Grasshopper, showing the origin of the file path component on the Grasshopper ribbon

Hidden keyboard and search shortcuts in Grasshopper

Keyboard/mouse shortcuts

Ctrl + Alt: Get category and subcategory of component. Want to know where the ‘path’ component lives? Hold Ctrl + Alt, then click on it.

grasshopper-ctrl-alt-shortcut

Keyboard shortcuts

Modify the draw order

The draw order affects which components sit on top of each other visually. It also affects the calculation order.

Ctrl+B: send component to back of draw order (and will be calculated first)
Ctrl+F: send component to front of draw order (and will be calculated later)

Grasshopper draw order shown by two panels

Search bar shortcuts

Create a number slider

3 3-slider A slider from 0 to 10 (integers)
300 300-slider A slider from 0 to 10 (2 decimal places)

References

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/what-hotkeys-and-shortcuts-are-available-in-grasshopper

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