Keyboard Shortcuts and Mouse Actions for Simulink Modeling - MATLAB & Simulink (2024)

When you open Simulink, you are in movement mode by default.

To switch from selection mode to movement mode, press M.

The hints panel appears when you use the arrow keys to move a selected block.

Trace the signal line to the signal source or destination. See Highlight Signal Sources and Destinations for details.

Click a signal in your model. Pause on the ellipsis that appears. In the action bar that expands, click either Highlight Signal to Source or Highlight Signal to Destination .

Press the space bar until the hints panel expands. If the hints panel is minimized, press the space bar until the ? button appears.

To hide the hints panel, click the canvas.

Scroll wheel

Ctrl + scroll wheel when Scroll wheel controls zooming is cleared

Zoom or pan to part of the model.

When only part of the model is visible, press the space bar until the miniature map appears.

Drag the highlighted area in the miniature map.

Drag with middle button.

Space bar + drag.

When a scroll bar is shown, to move the scroll bar with your keyboard, press Space bar + left, right, up, or down arrow.

Double-click.

Enter

M

Drag one of the selected elements.

Drag selection box.

After selecting elements with the keyboard, in selection mode, press the left, right, up, or down arrow.

By default, when you move or resize a block with three or more ports, the shape of signal lines connecting to blocks with one or two ports does not change. Instead, the connected blocks move.

Turn the functionality off.

Hold the space bar while you move or resize a block.

When you release the space bar, the functionality turns back on.

In selection mode, press the left, right, up, or down arrow.

In selection mode, press Ctrl+Shift + left, right, up, or down arrow.

Ctrl+Home

On macOS, press home.

Ctrl+End

On macOS, press end.

Home

On macOS, press control+left.

End

On macOS, press control+right.

To select additional adjacent elements with the keyboard, in selection mode, press Shift + left, right, up, or down arrow.

To select additional adjacent elements with the pointer, press Shift while dragging a selection box around the additional elements.

To select additional elements with the keyboard, in selection mode, press Ctrl + left, right, up, or down arrow and navigate to the element you want to select. Then, add the element to the selection by pressing Ctrl + space bar.

On macOS, to add the current element to the selection, press command+shift + space bar or shift + space bar.

To select additional elements with the pointer, press Shift and click.

Ctrl+Shift+I

On macOS, press command+option+O. (since R2023b)

Before R2023b, on macOS, press command+shift+I.

Double-click the Simulink Editor canvas and start typing the block name, then select the block from the menu.

Ctrl+Period (.) twice and start typing the block name, then press the down arrow to select the block from the list and press Enter to insert the block.

On AZERTY keyboards, press Ctrl+Shift+Period (.) instead of Ctrl+Period (.).

Move your pointer over the unconnected end of a signal line. When your pointer is over the end of the signal line, it becomes a circle. Double-click the end of the signal line. Using the quick insert menu that appears, add a block. The new block is connected to the end of the signal line that you double-clicked.

For information about how to use the quick insert menu, see Add Blocks to Models Using Quick Insert Menu.

Double-click the Simulink Editor canvas and type the annotation content, then select the annotation option.

Ctrl+Period (.) twice and type the annotation content, then press the down arrow to select the annotation option and press Enter to insert the annotation.

On AZERTY keyboards, press Ctrl+Shift+Period (.) instead of Ctrl+Period (.).

Drag elements with the right mouse button.

Ctrl + drag.

Click a port. Click the blue chevron symbol that appears near a compatible port you want to connect to.

Select the first block, then Ctrl + click a second block.

Drag from port to port.

Click a port and press Shift as you connect to the next port. Press Shift to make multiple, consecutive connections.

Click a port, move the cursor near the line you want to branch, and then click after you see the preview.

Select a line, move the cursor toward the element you want to connect with, and then click the blue chevron symbol that appears near the port.

Ctrl + drag line.

Right mouse button + drag.

Drag toward the port from a compatible block or signal line.

Drag from the edge of the block that you want to add the port to.

Click the edge of the port, and then drag.

Click the edge of the port, move the cursor over the signal type — signal, bus, or connector — from the menu, and drag.

Press Shift, then drag block.

After selecting blocks with the keyboard, press M then Shift + left, right, up, or down arrow.

Click or double-click the label.

Select the element and press F2.

On macOS, press command+return instead of F2.

Point to the port label and click the interactive cue (blue box surrounding the label).

Select the port. Click the port label cue or press F2.

To switch between block name and signal name when editing labels on signal ports, press Ctrl+1,2.

To make successive port label edits on a subsystem block:

To create the highlighted option, which you can change by using the arrow keys or mouse:

Press the number key associated with an option.

Double-click the Simulink Editor canvas, select the Actions tab, and start typing the action name or description, then select the action from the list.

Ctrl+Period (.) and start typing the action name or description, then press the down arrow to select the action and press Enter to perform it.

On AZERTY keyboards, press Ctrl+Shift+Period (.) instead of Ctrl+Period (.).

Before opening the quick action search menu, select a model element.

F10

On macOS, press shift+command+O.

F11

On macOS, press shift+command+I.

Shift+F11

On macOS, press shift+command+U.