topic Re: Pan Scroll options? in AutoCAD Forum

Pan Scroll options?

EQEberhardt — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:57:41 GMT

Hi,

I'm learning AutoCAD after several years of working with Vectorworks. In VWX, you can hold ALT or SHIFT while scrolling the mouse wheel to pan up/down or left/right, along a straight line, without losing the zoom you had. The arrow keys also work to move you around the drawing. Is there any way to remap keys in AutoCAD to do something similar? Manually dragging to pan takes a lot more time and is less accurate, so I'm looking for a way to avoid it if possible.

Re: Pan Scroll options?

Patchy — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:06:32 GMT

Type in -P

or change autoscroll to -pan in your mouse driver.

Re: Pan Scroll options?

EQEberhardt — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:10:56 GMT

Typing in P just changes my cursor to the pan hand, it doesn't change the scroll wheel from zooming

Re: Pan Scroll options?

Patchy — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:20:50 GMT

-p or -pan

not just P

Re: Pan Scroll options?

EQEberhardt — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:02:05 GMT

Ah, better but still not quite what I'm looking for. Thank you though!

Re: Pan Scroll options?

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:46:14 GMT

Also not exactly what you're looking for, but maybe it will be usable for you:

That at least lets you move orthogonally without changing zoom level, but by scrollbars, meaning separately on the two axes.

Re: Pan Scroll options?

mattdVF27J — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:48:59 GMT

This wasn't an easy transition for me personally. 16 years in VWX to ACAD for the last year. I have my middle mouse set to pan when pressed. Best alternative that I have found. Might consider looking at your "alias" file. There you can changes some of the keyboard commands. Can't say I've seen another way to pan that isn't listed here.

Re: Pan Scroll options?

EQEberhardt — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:57:20 GMT

I have those turned on, was hoping there was a way to control them via keystrokes basically. I'll be working with both AutoCAD and VWX regularly, so anything I can do to keep the keystrokes similar in both programs would help me work faster. I'll get used to it eventually!