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Select an object

Click.

Select additional objects

Shift+click.

Drag with the right mouse button.

Ctrl+drag.

Delete or Backspace

Cut

Paste

Duplicate object

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

Undo

Redo

Set the main parameter for selected block

Alt+Enter

Add a block at the current location from shortcut menu

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

Get prompted for suggested block based on context

Open or hide the Property Inspector

Ctrl+Shift+I

Copy block or model from another Simulink Editor window

Drag between windows.

Move block

Arrow keys

Resize block, keeping same ratio of width and height

Shift+drag handle.

Resize block from the center

Ctrl+drag handle.

Rotate block clockwise

Ctrl+R

Rotate block counterclockwise

Ctrl+Shift+R

Flip block

Ctrl+I

Connect blocks

Click a port, then click the port you want it to connect to.

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

Drag from port to port.

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

Draw branch line

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 port.

Ctrl+drag line.

Right-mouse button+drag.

Route lines around blocks

Shift+drag while drawing.

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.

Click the block label.

Select the block and use F2.

On Macintosh platforms, select the block and use control+return.

Disconnect block

Shift+drag block.

Create subsystem from selected blocks

Ctrl+G

Create subsystem or area from empty selection

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

Press the number key associated with an option.

Open selected block

Enter

Go to parent of active subsystem or referenced model

Esc

Find block

Ctrl+F

Mask block

Look under block mask

Comment through a block

Ctrl+Shift+Y

Comment out or uncomment a block

Ctrl+Shift+X

Refresh Model blocks

For a linked block, go to the library of the parent block

Open Model Explorer

Double-click the signal line.

Click the label.

Select the signal line (not the label) and use F2.

On Macintosh platforms, select the signal line (not the label) and use control+return.

Open Configuration Parameters dialog box

Update diagram

Start simulation

Stop simulation

Build model (for code generation)

Step

Step in

Step out

Shift+F11

Run

Set/Clear breakpoint

Scroll wheel

On the Modeling tab, select Environment > Simulink Preferences. On the Editor pane, clear Scroll wheel controls zooming to zoom using Ctrl+scroll wheel.

Arrow keys

Shift+arrow for larger pans.

Spacebar+drag.

Hold the scroll wheel down and drag the mouse.

Open model

Create a model

Print

Save all modified models in active model hierarchy

Save active referenced model

Close model