Hi Miguel, welcome to the forum and back to MoI again!

> I tried it months ago but my keyboard-driven mind was
> still not open enough for it.

There's actually quite a bit of keyboard support in MoI as well.

For example if you are drawing a line and you want to place the end of the line exactly at coordinate x = 2, y = 2 you can just immediately type 2,2 <enter> without having to click on anything. As soon as you type in a number, that number and the keyboard focus automatically goes into the first available field (which in this case will be the x,y,z input control in the bottom toolbar).

Another example, if you are drawing a circle and want it to be radius = 5, when you are at the radius stage just type in 5 <enter> without clicking on anything - as soon as you type 5 the focus will go into the radius field.

There are also some additional options coming in MoI v2 that let you type in command names if you like to do that as well.

Some other keyboard things - you can type in relative coordinates (offset from the previous picked point) by prefixing the point with r, like r2,2 and also the AutoCAD syntax of @ works as well like @2.2 if you are familiar with that. Similarly you can enter in polar coordinates like 5<45 (5 units angled 45 degrees from the previous point).

You can also set up whatever keyboard shortcuts you want (including ones bound to a single character instead of having to hold down Ctrl or Alt, but those work too) under Options / Shortcut keys.


So even though it was a big goal of MoI that it should be able to work without using the keyboard, there are still many things in MoI set up to still be friendly to keyboard users if you want to work that way as well.

- Michael