Starting…
Keyboard shortcuts
Anywhere
- ⌘K
- Find an action, part, project or jumper
- P
- Add a part or board (the library)
- ?
- These shortcuts
- ⌘Z
- Undo
- ⌘U · ⇧⌘Z
- Redo
- Esc
- Cancel, deselect, close
Tools
- V
- Select and move
- W
- Draw wires
- N
- Pin notes
Looking around
- Right-drag
- Orbit
- Middle-drag
- Pan
- ⇧ right-drag
- Pan
- Mouse wheel
- Zoom
- Two fingers
- Pan
- ⌥ two fingers
- Orbit
- Pinch
- Zoom
Selection
- ⇧-click
- Add to or take from the selection
- ⇧-drag
- Select everything in a box
- ⌘A
- Select everything
- R · ⇧R
- Rotate (⇧: the other way)
- ⌥-drag
- Move a part, its leads kept in their holes
- ⌘C · ⌘V
- Copy, paste
- ⌘D
- Duplicate
- H
- Hide what's selected (or show it again)
- ⌫
- Delete
Wiring
- Click a hole
- Start, then finish, a wire
- ⇧-click · right-click
- Turn the wire there
- ⌫
- Undo the last turn
Schematic
- V · W · L
- Select, wires, net labels
- P · A
- Power labels, add a symbol
- R · ⇧R
- Rotate counter-clockwise (⇧: clockwise)
- X · Y
- Flip left to right, top to bottom
- E · double-click
- Its details
- D
- Its datasheet
- /
- While drawing: the corner the other way
- `
- Then a click: light that net
- Right-click
- What can be done with what's under it
- F
- Fit it all in view (the Home key too)
- ⌘F
- Find a net or a part
- G
- Grid on or off
- S · H · ⌘L
- A sheet, a hierarchical label, a global label
- T · I
- A text, a divider (a click a corner; Enter ends it)
- ⌘H
- The sheets, to go to one
- ⇟ · ⇞
- The next sheet, the previous one (Page Down, Page Up)
- ⌥⌫
- Back up to the sheet it's in
Claude, or another AI app, can open, change and run your projects with you, through BBRouter’s MCP server. Connect it once: it asks you to sign in, then works as you, on your projects only.
MCP server address
Claude Code
Then type /mcp in Claude Code, pick bbrouter and choose Authenticate to sign in.
Claude (claude.ai, desktop and mobile)
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector: name it BBRouter, paste the address and click Add, then Connect and sign in.
Other apps
Any app that takes a remote MCP server (HTTP, with OAuth sign-in): give it the address.
No project open
Create a layout, or open one saved on the server.
Simulation
Controls
Nothing to control yet: variable jumpers, hole groups, warnings and the simulation show here.
Click anything to pin a note to it.
New wire
Fixed: part of the circuit; carries the net from one end to the other. Variable: moved by hand (a probe, a control line); breaks the net, so each end stays its own.
Board
Part
Parts
This link doesn’t open a project any more
Its owner stopped sharing the project, or the link isn’t whole. Ask them for a new one.