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3 finger rotate with trackpad

3 finger rotate with trackpad

With a multitouch trackpad it would be great to be able to use 3 fingers for rotating the view. I mapped this behavior in SolidWorks, and it was great- one finger for the cursor, two fingers to zoom, 3 fingers to rotate. It was more intuitive than even using the mouse.

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Anonymous
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Ive been using Fusion on Mac and I really like to have full and fluid control when modelling and viewing models, so I was a bit disappointed that multitouch support on the magic pad was not support - however - with a wacom graphics tablet I solved the problem but creating a custom setting in the Wacom Driver on the system prefs for pretty much controlling the view ports with just the stylus : 

 

If you map the following in this fashion : 

 

Stylus Top Button  : Right Click 

 

Stylus Bottom Button : Middle Click 

 

Stylus Tip : Click 

 

then you can use a combination of keyboard shortcuts to control the whole view port with the stylus like so :

 

SHIFT + Control + Stylus Movement = Zoom +/-

 

SHIFT + Stylus Movement = Rotate View

 

OPTION + Stylus Movement = Dolly / Pan 

 

In this way you can work on the models and drawings in a smooth manner  and have the menu on tap with the middle click button, ideally it would be great with multitouch, but with this workflow you are pretty much controlling all of this on one hand with the stylus which makes it even faster than multitouch, now if the view ports were mapped to the numeric keys for orthogonal views eg. 2 for top, 4 for left, 5, for right, 7 for down, etc. etc. this would be most ideal as you wouldn't have to use the view cube 

 

 

Anonymous
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This would be an awesome feature!

Anonymous
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Hey SwarmJon!

How did you map this behaviour in Solidworks?? I have been looking for a way to do this and your statement of doing it is what has kept my hopes up for finding a solution, but unfortunately I haven't found a way so now I'll try to go straight to the source!

 

I can't understand how this is not a native feature in CAD softwares..

 

Best regards,

Daniel

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