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Zoom using control and middle mouse button (similar to Revit)

Intuos5
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Zoom using control and middle mouse button (similar to Revit)

Intuos5
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Is it possible to customise the UI in order to zoom by holding control and dragging with the middle mouse button pressed? I still haven't been able to comfortably use my drawing tablet in Autocad, because the mouse wheel is basically required for navigational purposes.

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john.vellek
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Hi @Intuos5,

 

I have tried such customization in the CUI editor before and I have never had much success in playing with the built-in mouse settings.  Have you considered a programmable mouse?  I am guessing you will have much better success with that approach.


John Vellek


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pendean
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Which "drawing table" are you talking about, and what exactly is your pointing device?


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Intuos5
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The drawing tablet I am using is a Wacom Intuos pro (5). I would rather not have to use a mouse alongside to zoom in and out. I have mapped buttons to RTzoom, Zoom extents all and 

Zoom region. The thing is that these break the command in use, e.g. when moving objects it is not possible to use these commands as you will abort the moving. Also touch input results in accudental clicks, so that is not an option for me.

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john.vellek
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Hi @Intuos5

 

Have you tried creating the custom button for your pen in the Wacom app?


John Vellek


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Intuos5
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Hi John,

Yes, I have already tried all of the custom functions provided by Wacom. Furthermore I tried setting up custom macros on a programmable keyboard and my tablet. Unfortunately, the zoom (window) or realtime zoom commands cancel out existing commands. Yesterday I came across transparant commands, but these do not seem to provide a solution either. 

What I'd like to do is this: select an object, hit move, zoom in if necessary to pick a point, zoom out (otherwise I keep panning forever), pan and zoom in to click the point to move the object to. The way it is now, I can either move OR zoom. Do you perhaps have any other suggestions for me to try out? Or know a way to use realtime zoom (or similar function) as transparant command? Whilst in move it prompts me with the message that the point is not valid...

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Intuos5
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Bumping this thread, since I haven't found a solution in the meantime.


It should be possible to assign ctrl + middle mouse button to zoom in/ out depending on whether the cursor moves up or down, right? This functionality exists in many other applications, so I have the impression I misphrased my question previously. So could someone tell me how I could set it up like this in the CUI?

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RobDraw
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Have you tried the steering wheel?


Rob

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Kent1Cooper
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@Intuos5 wrote:

.... I have mapped buttons to RTzoom, Zoom extents all and Zoom region. The thing is that these break the command in use, e.g. when moving objects it is not possible to use these commands as you will abort the moving. ....


ZOOM is a transparent command.  That means it can be used inside other commands, when the command name is prefixed with an apostrophe.  In the definitions/codes in your mapped buttons, use the command name with a preceding apostrophe, and you can do it inside another command without breaking it:

 

'ZOOM

 

The one situation in which that would not work would be if the change in Zoom level is enough to require a REGEN, which can't be transparent.

 

Explore ZOOM's Dynamic option, which takes a little getting used to compared to mouse-wheel Zooming, but can give you similar capability with only pick-button operation, whichever that is on your tablet puck.

Kent Cooper, AIA
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