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grendizer

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Hello everybody,
 
I'm still new to Houdini and I'm tring to speed up my modelling workflow by setting hotkeys. The problem is, they don't work.
The 2 first ops I tried to assign keys to are: "Polysplit" and "Edge subdivide".
 
First weird thing, When I search the Hotkey Manager, I can't find these 2 ops. In the Houdini forum, someone told me to ​hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift while clicking on a shelf tool to open Hotkey manager for that tool. So that's what I did.
Then I set up "edge divide" to ALT+D. If I hover the mouse on the edge divide shelf tool, I can see my shorctut alt+D.
 
So then, I create a new cube, select 4 of its edges, then hit ALT+D... nothing happens.
 
I'm using an azerty keyboard, is this my problem?
 
I set polysplit on ALT+* and I just got it working on the cube. But in other scenes it wasn't working neither...
 
Thanks and see you soon,
G
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'Alt-D' works here. The reason test 'D' only is to identify whether you can successfully assign keyboard shortcuts on a azerty keyboard. You can always reset these keys. The preferences are also held on disk so you can always backup before testing.  Make sure to check the help file, the '?' from the HotKey Manager.

 

Edge Divide is in the Hotkey Manager - see attached.

 

 

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I think I'm narrowing down the problem. So for now my conclusions are:
 

1) On an azerty keyboard, combinations don't work on non-alphabetical keys : $,*,!, etc. But combinations like ALT+D or CTRL+ALT+P work well.
 

2) The speed at which one has to press the keys combination is important. If one press both keys too long, the tool is not activated! :huh:
 
Thanks Marty for your useful help!

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Seems like a bug with azerty keyboards. That is all working fine with qwerty. It's probably worth submitting a bug to SideFx to ensure this gets fixed.

 

On the SIdeFx.com site, support menu - submit bugs.

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