← Mike Lyons

Use Sketch 3’s quick-zoom on US keyboards

Sketch 3 has a cool feature where hitting the Section key ( § ) zooms out a bit while you hold it. It’s nice for when you’re zoomed in on something tiny, but want to see how it looks in the rest of your project.

Unfortunately, US keyboards don’t have a § key. The directions below will map quick-zoom to your tilde ( ` ) key.

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Step 1: Install Karabiner

Step 2: Add the Tilde/Section swap

• Open Karabiner
• Click the Misc & Uninstall tab at the top
• Click the Open private.xml button
• Replace the contents of private.xml with the text block below and save

  <?xml version="1.0"?>
  <root>
    <appdef>
      <appname>SKETCH3</appname>
      <equal>com.bohemiancoding.sketch3</equal>
    </appdef>
    <item>
      <name>Swap Tilde (`) and Section (§) in Sketch 3</name>
      <identifier>private.appdef</identifier>
      <only>SKETCH3</only>
      <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::BACKQUOTE, KeyCode::UK_SECTION</autogen>
      <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::UK_SECTION, KeyCode::BACKQUOTE</autogen>
    </item>
  </root>

Step 3: Enable the Tilde/Section swap

• Click the Change Key tab at the top
• Click the Reload XML button
• Search for Sketch 3 in the search box
• Check the box for Swap Tilde ( ` ) and Section (§) in Sketch 3

Test it out: Zoom into something in Sketch 3, then hold the Tilde key.