Editor Basics
Tools
There are three tools at your disposal. They can be chosen on the right side of the preview.
Key selection modes
There are three ways to select key. They can be chosen on the right side below the tools.
Views
There are a couple of different views. These can be selected above the preview.
3D view
This is the standard view. It shows you your keyboard.
Keys view
Shows you all the keys in a top down view.
Program view
This view shows you how you could wire the keyboard and lets you download the KLE Layout.
Base view
This view shows you the base of the keyboard with the screw locations for the baseplate and the board holder.
Thickness view
This view shows you, how thick the shell is in certain places, and where it might be too thin.
Opacity slider
This slider changes the opacity of the keys and the baseplate. You can check, how your shell and the microcontroller look here.
Hand scanning
Allows you to scan your hand, to show or hide your hand scan and to fit the keyboard to your hand.
Settings
Keyboard visibility
The buttons allow you to show the left, right or both halves.
Show grid
Shows a grid. Each line is 1cm from the next.
Hide wall
Hides the walls of the keyboard, but not the top plate.
Hide base
Hides the base plate and the microcontroller-holder.
Hide labels
Hides the letters on the keycaps.
Hide shapers
Hides the outline of the shaper keys.
Switch and keycap size
When you select a key, there will be an edit bar in the top middle. In that bar you can select which switch and keycap size you are using for this key. You can also delete the key here.
Edit key
Keycap
Profile
Allows you to select, what profile the keycap uses.
Row
Some keycap profiles have different keycaps for different rows to be more comfortable.
Homing
This setting is used to determinet what finger of your hand model goes where. Thumb will go to thumb homing key, index finger to index hotming key and so on.
Letter
The letter to be shown on this keycap
Key position
The row and column allow you to align the keys to the grid. The offset offsetts the keys from the position given by the row and column. The rotation rotates the key in it’s position. The rotation set in the curvature panel is not shown here. See curvature for that.
Filament information
Shows you how much filament printing your keyboard would take. The cost estimation seems to be based on a price of about 40$ per kilogram.