topic Re: How to pan using a windows laptop in Fusion Support Forum

How to pan using a windows laptop

gshobm — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 19:27:17 GMT

Hi. I purchased a new windows laptop (Asus Vivobook K513) and one of the reasons was to use fusion 360 on the go. I wanted to be able to use this without a mouse and use the touchpad. Using this with a mouse is not an option.

I read that that to pan I need to have "Use gesture-based view navigation" enabled and that I needed to hold the shift key, while dragging with 2 fingers - This does not work.

I have noticed that pinching with 2 fingers will allow me to zoom and for some strange reason dragging with 2 fingers lets me zoom also.

I just want to note that I am able to do 2, 3 and 4 gestures with my laptop in windows.

Thanks for any help

Re: How to pan using a windows laptop

jhackney1972 — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 19:51:43 GMT

You will miss not using a mouse but if you must... My Windows laptop has three buttons on the touchpad and if I set Fusion 360, in the Pr3ferences, to Tinkercad, under the Pan, Zoom and Orbit shortcut the following work:

Pan: Hold middle touchpad button and one finger

Zoom: Two fingers moving apart

Orbit: Hold Shift key down then hold middle button, one finger

Re: How to pan using a windows laptop

gshobm — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:16:44 GMT

Thanks for the quick response jhackney. I understand that I would miss a mouse as I use that on my pc already..

My laptop doesn't have any physical buttons on it. I am only able to press the touchpad down, I am pretty sure it is very similar to how the Macbooks work.

I tried that workaround but couldn't get that to work, difficult when there aren't buttons on my trackpad.

Thanks for the suggestion

Re: How to pan using a windows laptop

jhackney1972 — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:28:02 GMT

Most laptops that do not have physical buttons you use the left and right corners, closest to the operator, for the left and right buttons. Again, most laptops, use both of these together to give you the middle button functionality. Also the laptop configuration routine, in the control panel on Windows, can be used to configure special trackpad actions. Here is an article talking about it.

Re: How to pan using a windows laptop

gshobm — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:45:36 GMT

Ok, quite a helpful article. I have learned If I click with 2 fingers in the left and right hand bottom corners at the same time, continue to hold and move those fingers around that I am able to pan / free orbit!?

Looking at this article, I really didn't want to have to remap any of my gestures. I understand that I should also be able to rig something up in autohotkey (which I do have experience in)... It all seems such a clunky workaround and I really don't see why It couldn't work as per the instructions for the apple trackpad, y'know shift and 2 fingers to pan.