topic Re: magic mouse can work with autocad? in AutoCAD for Mac Forum

magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 13:56:31 GMT

i have my magic mouse but i am not sure if it works good with the autocad because of the stroll, zoom and pan... its there any program or software that helps the magic mouse with autocad?

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

maxim_k — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:37:32 GMT

Hi,

Try free Magic Prefs - it works perfectly (middle button, scroll, zoom, pan ...)!

Maxim

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:20:33 GMT

That does nothing.

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

maxim_k — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:13:06 GMT

Hi edenorchestra,

What do you mean "That does nothing"?

What function(s) you are missing?

Maxim

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:48:05 GMT

Let me clarify, MagicPrefs works fantastic. Although I can't get rid of the middle mouse function even though its not checked in Mprefs I use MPrefs all the time love it. What I meant was that the mouse function in ACAD is very choppy, erratic. I am just not happy with AutoCad for Mac. Its not smooth at all, and some of the 3 and 4 finger MPref functions do work unpredictably in ACAD> I am though getting some support from a product specialist presently. We shall see.

Hey did anyone notice that the spellchecker on this forum tries to spell correct "AutoCad".

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:53:18 GMT

Anyone else having trouble panning with the magic mouse in cad for mac? When I first installed the software it worked perfectly, then stopped working a week or two later. I tried playing with the mouse prefs and magic prefs, but nothing helped. The pan function works fine on my other mac software, so I am thinking it must be something within autocad itself. Any ideas?

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:26:14 GMT

I too had trouble using the magic mouse with autocad for mac. It was jumpy, so I went back to an old tethered mouse.

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

David_Stacey — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:38:32 GMT

I am using the Magic Mouse and it works fine.

The only tweak I had to do was reduce the speed of the zoom in preferences.

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 03:31:47 GMT

I just installed autocad 2012 on a new iMac and have also installed magic prefs. I'm not able to get a right click return/enter with the magic mouse and would be grateful for any advice on this. I may wind up using a std mouse until I get comfortable with the rest of the program unless I can get get this sorted out.

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

maxim_k — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:05:17 GMT

Hi,

Try to enable "Quick secondary click as Return key" in AutoCAD Preferences (General tab):

Maxim

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:23:55 GMT

Thanks. I found it...

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:22:20 GMT

Please, could somebody tell me how to use the center axis in the magic mouse as the middle click to pan and double click for zoom extents in autocad. With the MagicPrefs all I get is the dashboard when i do click the center axis.

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

maxim_k — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:40:00 GMT

Select "Middle click" for "One Finger Middle Axis Click" in MagicPrefs preferences:

Maxim

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:44:07 GMT

Yes, that's what i've done but it doesn't work. I don't know why. When i do click the center axis it goes to the dashboard. The only way i can pan is keeping pressed the space bar. But of course i can't do the zoom extents.

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:56:35 GMT

At the end it works. I've had to quit MagicPrefs and launch it again while the autocad is opened for it to work. I would like it to keep it configured.

Thank you very much anyway.

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:08:59 GMT

Maxim, excuse me. Do you know if it is possible to use the magic mouse with autocad in a windows bootcamp partition in a mac? I mean, if it is possible to configure the central axis as a center click to pan a do the zoom extend.

Thank you very much for your help.

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

maxim_k — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:50:56 GMT

Hi,

I never tried to use Magic Mouse in Bootcamp, but I googled for a short time and it appears that there is still no Windows drivers for enabling Magic Mouse "middle button"

Maxim

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:42:15 GMT

That's what it seems. Thanks anyway. Do you know how can you pan? Can you for example configure the space bar to keep it pressed to pan with the autocad for windows or that is only possible in mac?

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

maxim_k — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:07:27 GMT

I think - only on Mac.

Maxim

Re: magic mouse can work with autocad?

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:04:28 GMT

Our office was having trouble with the wireless magic mouse. When one would zoom in and out parts of the drawing would disappear until slightly zooming again or typing regen. I opened a ticket with Autodesk and they determined that there was a hardware compatibility problem that they are going to try to work out with Apple. They also said that they were using batteries like candy, and therefore most at Autodesk Support had reverted to wired mice.