Orbit and pan keyboard shortcuts?

[Anonymous]

I'm transitioning from OnShape where a right click was always mapped to orbit and a pan was a contr-rmb. While the expanded toolset of fusion360 is great so far I'm finding the basic navigation controls completely maddening. I simply don't have a middle mouse button and don't ever intend to (using a magic mouse). Why isn't there at least a simple keyboard modifier + right click option to trigger orbit and pan? Having to click it manually each time and then hit escape to switch it off is severely hampering my efficiency. Is there any way short of buying a 3 button mouse (not happening) to make basic navigation usable?

[Anonymous]

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add these lines to your autoHotkey file  (I'm using the tinkercad preference.  MAC users are SOL).

#IfWinActive ahk_exe Fusion360.exe

!RButton::MButton

#IfWinActive

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Thx, looks like this is the only way to keybind atm.  Neat program, it shall be useful. 

[temiqui]

Wow, I can't believe there is such an animated discussion about something as simple and obvious as allowing users to assign key-commands to the most-used features in a program.

Is there some wierd internal reason that Fusion is unable to re-assign these key-commands?  If the program is at all well designed under the hood (which it certainly seems to be) this should take a programmer 5 minutes to implement.  What is the holdup?  This thread is two years old!!

I come from Sketchup, and my brain is pretty hard wired for O is orbit.  Unfortunately, even re-assigning 'offset' (which I use 0.1% as often as orbit) to something besides 'O' (so I don't constantly trigger it by mistake) doesn't even work. 

I have a 3-button mouse on my desktop, but my laptop is not so-equipped, and I'd like to be able to do some work with it.  But I would note, as others here have, that:

1. the middle mouse button is awkward,

2. laptops don't have dedicated function keys

3. laptops don't have middle mouse buttons

But this shouldn't even matter.

Please fix key-command behaviour and extend to all actions.  This is just basic good UI development practice--defending it is just defending poor UI design.

[Anonymous]

@temiqui oh, don't worry, it's scheduled with the next update:

https://www.facebook.com/bbc/videos/1176407069383012

[temiqui]

Sweet!!!!

[Anonymous]

How can this even be an issue? Today a lot of people are working at least some of the time on laptops

It is expected that

A) you can pan, orbit etc. with a simple modifier key

B) you can easily customize these keys

This is just one of several quirks I've experienced during my time as a new user of Fusion360. It seems like a great software in many aspects, but then suddenly it just hits you with these weird things which should "just work".

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have a very rigid middle mouse button.

I read the posts but coudln't find the solution.

in the general UI behavior, pan zoom and orbit can only be shifted from fusion to inventor or solidworks and.. but no keyboard assignment.

has anyone find a solution?

i prefer to use a combination of keyboard and r/l mouse button.

[Anonymous]

Hi, you may test that Inventor setup makes the control with the F2 F3 and
F4 keys using mouse Left button.
It's not my go to since I prefer the Tinkercad setup but seems I can pan
only using the wheel, which I agree it's criminal.
Anyone discovered how to pan in Tinkercad setup else?

[springer.andreas]

If you have a magic trackpad (or the built-in MacBook trackpad obviously) you can use two fingers on it to pan and get the orbit functionality by holding down shift while dragging with two fingers. Works for me.

[kcMV82S]

There are solutions that require me to put yet another device on my desk, but that misses the point.

By not addressing this, I think Autodesk comes across as Arrogant - We are the world, adjust to our ways, we know better than you. Never considering that their users preferences may be based years of experience (i.e. we are set in our ways).

Funny thing, it would be trivial to address. I was almost able to fix it by writing a plug in. All they have to do is check which keys are down when the mouse is clicked and change commands. With the plug-in, I could change the command, but the change was persistent. I needed to catch the mouse click earlier in the responder chain.

This and a few other reasons is why I hate giving Autodesk money for the software.

[dantahoua]

Is there a way to mimic the mac trackpad on windows? I have a new pc laptop but Fusion shortcut seems differents. I'm not able to orbitor slide with the trackpad like I was doing on my Mac... (the trackpad works up to 4 fingers on this new pc)...

[splarv]

Here is documentation.
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/ENU/Fusion-GetStarted/files/cu...
You can choose variant without function key and the most suitable for you.

[kcMV82S]

It still sucks if you don't have a three button mouse. 

There are tons of 3d apps that have adequate navigation controls, but Autodesk apes the worst of them. 

It would be pretty easy to make it fully configurable.

[splarv]

Well, there is still exists way. By 3D space mouse, configure your Apple Magic mouse to emulate wheel and middle button (the magic mouse support even gestures on mouse body,), configure touchpad to emulate function keys in Fusion 360, buy keyboard with function keys (Magic keyboard), rotate ViewCube, use trackpad and so on.

What is interesting. As I understand the main problem is with dedicated Apple users: modern MacBook with Touchpad, magic mouse, etc. Is it possible work with Trackpad gestures of Fusion 360 on mouse back? My magic mouse still in office since 2019 spring, so I can't check.

[stdpattern]

Thank you for the link, that was what I needed.  I'm trying to lean Fusion after using PowerShape and PowerMill, and the pan, zoom, orbit was just maddening.  Picking Powermill as the option and reversing the zoom worked perfectly.

[qwksilver]

I'm amazed that this still hasn't been properly addressed, you would think that a pro software like F360 would be able to outperform the keyboard customization level of the average game.  Simply put we should be able to do all this without touching a mouse.  sure a mouse is a level up, but if all you need is to nudge rotation or pan why couldn't we custom map those things to WASD using CTR/CMD and alt.  or map to arrow keys and pgup/dn or ijkl or wherever we want to.  This would let us remap things easily to macro controlers or other input systems.  This topic is over 2 years old, and there are more and more and more complaining about the lack of keyboard customization in many aspects of fusion.  Like not being able to get to the three dots to set a key hotkey to switch off to pan(lock), orbit(lock), and contrained-orbit(lock) down on the menu bar.  or is the functionality to marry hotkeys to those buttons hidden somewhere else.

simple stuff like ctr-h hand. ctr-o orbit. and ctr-p constrained orbit.  but just a menu that lets us set keyboard shortcuts up, edit and delete existing shortcuts, see it all in once place.  or something "under the hood"  like mozilla's about:config to let us access and modify and customize to be flexible enough to suit anyone and everyone.

so fusion team, can you do this for us please!

[nilsAEFGL]

It's completly nuts that this major issue still, as of april 2023, remains. Not being able to bind custom keys makes the software useless if you are working on a laptop and want to get a smooth working experience. Anyway, too those who face this issue, I found this great repo at github that has a nice AutoHotKey script: https://github.com/leoole100/Fusion360Touchpad. 

[mcstoufer]

Fusion 360 2.0.16007 x86_64 [Native]

After updating to this version, the keyboard shortcuts for pan is gone.

The Shift+2 finger modifier on my Magic Trackpad2 for orbit no longer works.

All I get is this odd zoom-to-pointer effect on 2 finger movements.

This has definitely reduced my productivity in this app.

[kenTML5C]

Go back through your Preferences. One of mine, possibly the same one, “auto changed” itself during a recent update. Or maybe they removed a pref and added a different one to do nearly the same? I changed it, and my trackpad is fine again. I can’t remember which one, however, nor whether it was a Fusion pref or in my Mac’s system preferences. Good luck.