topic Re: Remapping shortcut keys to mouse buttons in Fusion Support Forum

Remapping shortcut keys to mouse buttons

tim.brammer00 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 22:23:51 GMT

Good evening,

I'm quite new to Fusion 360. I recently bought a mouse with extra buttons and now I am wondering if it is possible to map some of the shortcuts to these buttons? For example, it would be really helpful if I could carry out the "measure" command using one of the buttons on the mouse instead of the "i" key.

The mouse is a Logitech mouse and I am running the Program on a MacBook.

Regards,

Tim

Re: Remapping shortcut keys to mouse buttons

jhackney1972 — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 23:53:15 GMT

Normally you would use the Logitech mouse application to assign commands to your mouse. It either came with this application or you can download it from the Logitech website.

Re: Remapping shortcut keys to mouse buttons

lance.carocci — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 01:09:43 GMT

The challenge with "extra button" mice and keyboards is that those key inputs are generally only recognized by the device's driver, before being forwarded as a keystroke/click/event that the OS can recognize.

While a lot of applications support Mouse Button 1-3, and often 4/5, anything beyond that is not part of any interface standard; similar limitations exist with keyboards that have macro keys, too.

The workaround for this is generally to map those buttons to a function the OS can recognize, such as an existing key or button. An example of this would be binding "Mouse Button 26" to "s" so that both S on the keyboard and MB26 trigger the search box. If you were to unbind S from Search, MB26 would stop working, too, since you're now just mimicking an unbound hotkey.

Logitech Options software supports creating a custom profile for any executable, so you should be able to set up a highly customized set of mouse-based shortcuts, without impacting any non-Fusion workflows.

Re: Remapping shortcut keys to mouse buttons

alanf156 — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 22:57:47 GMT

Thank you for that helpful reply!

Re: Remapping shortcut keys to mouse buttons

marshhome — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:00:28 GMT

I have a Logitec 3 button mouse and find by default, the middle button depressed gives me pan. The third button on OnShape gave me orbit which was incredibly useful. Can I instruct Fusion to recognise the third button to action orbit?

Re: Remapping shortcut keys to mouse buttons

lance.carocci — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:24:20 GMT

Try setting Fusion's Pan/Zoom/Orbit shortcuts to "Solidworks" within the General section of application Preferences.

Re: Remapping shortcut keys to mouse buttons

marshhome — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 02:31:25 GMT

Dear Lance, thank you very very very much for your advice. Solidworks didn't do the job but Tinkercad did. Nw I can get on with it!