Scale Keystroke Combo (K - Numbers - Enter)

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Hey there,

This is a small detail that would save me a lot of time (and hopefully others).

Coming from Blender, I am really used to keystroke combos.
For example, after a transform shortcut (G for translate, S for scale, R for rotate), the user can enter numbers as inputs for the command, followed by enter for confirmation.
ie. [S] - [0] - [.] - [1] will scale the selected object to 10%

In sketch, we can use [K] for scale.
If the right panel is open, the % input is auto-focused (amazing detail) which can then be followed by [enter] to confirm.
This is pretty much the same than in Blender, and it’s something I do all the time.

Buuuuuut, if the right panel is not open, this doesn’t work.
Any chance we could make this happen also in this case?

I know it might not be the most common use case, but I personally do this several times per session.

Thanks for making this amazing software!

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We’d like this for sure. We’ve toyed with an idea like this in the past, and more recently discussed ways we could use the Command Bar (⌘K) interface to accept this kind of parametric input. So there’s a chance, but we’ve got some big fish to fry at the moment, the top of the list of things to do is quite big.

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Thanks for your quick answer, and great to hear you already thought about this.

I can understand this is not a priority, but I wanted to send a note anyway :wink:

In my opinion, I’d keep it outside the Command Bar.
The point would be to turn a super common operation into something as fast as possible.

The way I see it Command Bar is more for things that I know are possible, but for which I don’t know the Shortcut.

That’s how I use Blender at least:

  • If it’s something I do all the time (several times per session), I know the shortcut.
  • If it’s something I do less often (once every few sessions), I do spacebar (similar to ⌘K in Sketch) and I find by name.