Mark,
My first thoughts would be to go into the control panel and make sure your
mouse is setup so that the middle button is "middle button".
Brian
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> I recently got a new machine, running Windows XP Professional. All of my
personal settings were transferred from my old computer to my new one.
>
> I have set the 'mbuttonpan' command to '1', and I can pan and zoom in and
out using the mouse wheel, but the problem comes in that my panning is
completely different. With my old machine, when my mouse wheel is pressed,
a hand appears on the screen and I could grab a point and move it to another
point on the screen. Now, I press the wheel, the crosshairs remain and it
pans in the opposite direction that I move (similar to if you press the
mouse wheel on the internet). Sometimes a bubble with four arrows (up,
down, right, left) will appear (as it does on the internet), other times it
simply moves in the direction of the mouse. The other problem is that it is
extraordinarily inconsistent. I can select a point, move my mouse a very
minimal distance and move my on-screen drawing 10 feet (when compared to the
units of the drawing) while having complete control of the panning, then
without doing anything else before pressing it again, I can use the exact
same mouse movement and get shot off into the middle of nowhere in my
drawing. I can live with learning a new method of panning, but the
inconsistency is absolutely unacceptable.
>
> I have recently installed AutoCAD on another machine with XP Professional,
and the I have the same problems, is this a cad problem, or a glitch in the
system with XP?? If anyone has a fix for this problem it would be greatly
appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Mark Klone