Shortcut Commands

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Shortcut Commands are used to quickly send a command to an axis by pressing the 0-9 shortcut buttons on the RMCTools toolbar, or by pressing Ctrl+0 through Ctrl+9 on the keyboard.

You can assign one or more commands to each shortcut key. Shortcut commands are useful when setting up and tuning an axis, which usually requires moving repeatedly between two or more positions.

Assigning Commands to a Key Combination

There are two ways to assign commands to a shortcut command key combination:

From the Command Tool

In the Cmd box, choose a command and enter the command parameters if there are any.
To store the command, click the Store Shortcut Command button , and click the key combination you wish to assign the command to.

From the Shortcut Command Set Editor

In the Project pane, expand Shortcut Sets, and double-click the shortcut command set you wish to change.
In the Shortcut Command Set Editor, add or remove commands. The number to the left of each item indicates which key combination it corresponds to.
See the Editing Shortcut Command section below for details.

Sending Shortcut Commands

There are two methods of sending shortcut commands.

Press CTRL+num, where num is a digit from 0 to 9.
Click one of the shortcut command buttons on the toolbar. These buttons correspond to pressing CTRL-num:

A black number indicates that the shortcut command has one or more commands assigned to it. A gray number indicates that the shortcut command does not have any commands assigned to it.

Sending a shortcut command will send the command(s) assigned to that key combination of the active shortcut command set. See Shortcut Command Sets below.

Shortcut commands apply to the currently selected controller in the Project pane.

Editing Shortcut Commands

To edit Shortcut Sets, in the Project pane, expand Shortcut Sets, and double-click the shortcut command set you wish to change.

In the Shortcut Command Editor, the numbers to the left of each item correspond to the shortcut key combinations Ctrl+0 through Ctrl+9. For each key combination, you can define which commands will be issued. Each key combination can have only one command for each axis.

To add a command to a key combination:

Click Add Command.
In the Axis box, choose which axis the command should be sent to.
In the Cmd box, choose the command.
If the command has any parameters, fill them out.

To remove a command from a key combination:

Highlight the entire command by clicking the word Command, or the whitespace above the Command box.
Press Delete.

Uploading and Downloading

Any edits in the Shortcut Sets will immediately be reflected on shortcut commands sent to the RMC, without requiring changes to be downloaded. Edits will also be saved in the RMCTools project file when a save is initiated. Downloading Shortcuts Sets will allow them to be saved to Flash, so that they can be uploaded later.

To save the Shortcut Sets in the RMC, in the Shortcut Commands editor, click the Download button , then update Flash.

To upload the controller values from the RMC to the project, in the project tree, right-click Shortcut Sets and choose UploadShortcut Sets from the Controller.

Shortcut Command Sets

Any number of shortcut command sets be created. For each set, any commands can be assigned to each key combination. Only one shortcut command set can be active at a time.

Activating a Shortcut Command Set

On the main toolbar, in the Active Shortcut Command Set box, choose a shortcut command set. The shortcut command set will become active immediately:

Creating a New Shortcut Command Set

In the Project pane, right-click Shortcut Sets, and click New Shortcut Set. A new shortcut command set editor will open.

Renaming a Shortcut Command Set

In the Project pane, expand Shortcut Sets, right-click the shortcut command set and click Rename, or select the shortcut command set and press F2.

Exporting and Importing Shortcut Command Sets

Shortcut command sets can be exported and imported in RMCTools. If you have a favorite command set, you can export it to a file, and then import it to each project you create. Shortcuts command sets can also be copied and pasted.

To export:

In the Project pane, expand Shortcut Sets.
Right-click a shortcut command set and click Export Shortcut Cmd Set.
If you wish to export all the command sets, right-click Shortcut Sets and click Export Shortcut Cmd Set.

To import:

In the Project pane, right-click Shortcut Sets and click Import Shortcut Cmd Set.
Browse to a shortcut command set file that you previously exported and click Open.