# Ability to switch tool options with hotkey

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/ability-to-switch-tool-options-with-hotkey/30142>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [February 2, 2024, 8:32am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/ability-to-switch-tool-options-with-hotkey/30142 "2024-02-02T08:32:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Gy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/peter_gy/32/9251_2.png) [@Peter\_Gy](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Peter_Gy)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 9:16am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/ability-to-switch-tool-options-with-hotkey/30142/2 "2024-02-02T09:16:52Z")

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Hi – thanks for the report!

It works like that for many tools (most notably in sketching), but it indeed does not work everywhere. It just came up in a different thread, see my answer there:

> [@Offset tool doesn't switch to sketch mode](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/offset-tool-doesnt-switch-to-sketch-mode/30126/2):
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> Nice catch! slight_smile That’s indeed a known limitation of the Offset tool that has a bunch of weird deep technical reasons that I won’t bore you with. As we are working on multiple things that’ll change how it works as part of the parametric feature set we decided to focus on that effort instead of investing into fixing this particular workflow. Thanks for the tip about the repeated shortcuts for union and others, we’ll consider it!

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