Mouse Wheel Pan

[Anonymous]

Began work this morning in a drawing.  Panning with mouse wheel held down worked fine.  

Then it stopped, no other programs running, nothing.  Now holding down mouse wheel has no effect.  

MBUTTONPAN is 1, mouse wheel is set to "button."  

What have I done?  How did this change in the middle of my work?

Thanks for the help.  

[Cadguru42]

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@Anonymous wrote:

Began work this morning in a drawing.  Panning with mouse wheel held down worked fine.  

Then it stopped, no other programs running, nothing.  Now holding down mouse wheel has no effect.  

MBUTTONPAN is 1, mouse wheel is set to "button."  

What have I done?  How did this change in the middle of my work?

Thanks for the help.  

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Did you see if this happens in another drawing? Have you closed C3D and restarted?

[Anonymous]

First thing I tried was exiting and re-entering program, no joy.  Pan with wheel fails in all drawings.  Perhaps the mouse blew up?  Will try another mouse. Thanks for the thought.  

[Cadguru42]

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@Anonymous wrote:

First thing I tried was exiting and re-entering program, no joy.  Pan with wheel fails in all drawings.  Perhaps the mouse blew up?  Will try another mouse. Thanks for the thought.  

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Which C3D version are you running? Starting with 2015 Autodesk changed something with how the mouse wheel is handled. I use a tiny program called WizMouse that gives the window that the cursor is over priority (similar to how Linux works) so that I can scroll in a window that is not the current active window. It's worked fine for every version of AutoCAD since 2000 until 2015 when the zoom function with multiple viewports open zooms in all of them. Autodesk doesn't see it as a problem and the developer of WizMouse hasn't responded to my inquiry about it.

[jmayo-EE]

Temporarly disable the mouse specific app and see if it fixes the issue.

I disble all logitec programs and use the generic mouse driver due to the same issue on a number of machines. 

[Pointdump]

McL,

This will probably sound stupid, but try vacuuming out your mouse. They get dusty contacts inside.

Dave

[cwr-pae]

Dave is showing his age. Back in the stone age we had to clean our mice regularly. The balls and contacts would get packed up with dust and the mice would get flakey. So his suggestion is a good one for any odd mouse behavior.

[Anonymous]

if you are using logitech some of the buttons have a tendensy to "disable" mouse pan.

I changed my pan to the thumb button on my logitech!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I must apologize to all who responded.  It was an evil mouse.

I was forced to purchase a new mouse, a Logitech mouse, which already does not retain the cursor-speed settings I set for it, etc., but still is not (yet) a malignant and accursed mouse like the one inspiring the original post.  

Lowly Worms "R" Us