Command palette

⌘/Ctrl+P opens the command palette: a searchable list of every command available right now — tools, views, document actions, pane toggles. Anything without a visible button is reachable here.

• Matching is fuzzy: type any subsequence, like zf for Zoom to Fit.
• ↑/↓ move the highlight, Enter runs it, Esc closes.
• The list is context-pertinent: e.g. Exit Sketch appears only inside a sketch, Delete Selection only with something selected.
• Every tool is here — the sketch tools and the 3D ones (Extrude, Chamfer, Fillet, Revolve, Sweep, Combine, Mirror, Slice, and the rest) — so you can switch tool without hunting the toolbar.
• Explode Selection Under Cursor opens the Selection Exploder right where your pointer is, the same as pressing Space.

Commands that ask for something

A few commands need a word from you. Choosing one turns the palette into a prompt for it — type, Enter runs it, Esc goes back to the list with your search still there.

Search McMaster-Carr works this way: type what you're after — socket head screw, or a part number — and the catalog window opens with that search already run.

Scripting

bearcad.ui.palette("show")            -- show / hide / toggle
bearcad.ui.palette("run", "view top") -- run the best-matching entry for a query

-- A command that asks for something takes it as a third value.
bearcad.ui.palette("run", "mcmaster", "socket head screw")