Pan Scroll options?

[EQEberhardt]

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.

[Patchy]

Type in -P

or change autoscroll to -pan in your mouse driver.

[EQEberhardt]

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

[Patchy]

-p or -pan

not just P

[EQEberhardt]

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

[Kent1Cooper]

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.

[mattdVF27J]

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.

[EQEberhardt]

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!