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Toggle from pan to orbit and zoom on-the-fly

Toggle from pan to orbit and zoom on-the-fly

I'm migrating from Sketchup, and so far the only Sketchup feature I miss is the ability to toggle between pan and orbit on-the-fly by pressing and releasing the Shift key, and being able to zoom while panning or orbiting. It's not a big thing, but I find it much quicker to navigate by pressing and holding down the center wheel, and being able to switch from panning to orbiting and zooming without lifting the mouse button, instead just toggling between the two with the Shift key, and rolling the mouse wheel at any time so you can instantly change a navigation movement from a pan, to an orbit, and back to a pan, and zoom in and out. To illustrate, here are the steps first in Sketchup, and next in Fusion 360 to 1) pan, 2) zoom, 3) orbit, 4) zoom and 5) pan:

 

Sketchup: 1) Click, drag/pan, 2) roll/zoom, 3) shift, drag/orbit, 4) roll/zoom, 5) release shift, drag/pan, release mouse. 

 

Fusion 360: 1) Click, drag/pan, 2) roll/zoom, 3) release mouse, shift, click, drag/orbit, 4) release mouse, click, roll/zoom, 5) pan, release mouse

 

Note that Fusion 360 allows you to hold the center mouse wheel down and "toggle" between pan/zoom simply by rolling the mouse wheel or holding it steady. The same should be true of orbiting - hold the shift key and center mouse wheel down and orbit/zoom. And, while the center mouse wheel is held down, pressing the shift key should toggle between panning and orbiting.

 

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loren.brichter
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This would also fix the (currently atrocious) navigation support out of the box on the Mac. Using a Magic Mouse is literally impossible, and trackpads are painful.

 

Sketchup navigation is by far the most ergonomic on the Mac. It only requires left-mouse-click, no other buttons. 3 button mice might be popular among longtime CAD users / gamers, but there's a massive population subjected to horribly slow methods of pan/orbit who don't realize that it shouldn't be this bad.

 

It's an easily fixed, showstopping blemish on an otherwise incredible tool.

 

This is so easy to fix. The ratio of engineering-cost-to-fix vs. user-years saved is enormous.

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