Question about orbit

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone, I'm having a problem trying to put orbit on my mouse. I'm coming from onshape which in my opinion, was set up perfectly with orbit, pan and zoom on the mouse. I cannot stand having to hold shift or any other keyboard button to achieve this. Clicking the orbit button every time I need to orbit is a pain as well as clicking the view cube to do this. I don't see the need to have 2 selection tools on my mouse. I never use freeform select default RMB. I want to have orbit on the right mouse button, or ANY mouse button with pan and zoom.

Is there any way to have pan, zoom and orbit on the mouse and get rid of the freeform select. This is make it or break it for me. I really want to use and recommend this software, but without the ability to change these preferences I just don't think I can....

Anybody have any ides on how to fix this problem?

Thanks for your time and any help is appreciated.

[Phil.E]

Welcome to the Fusion 360 community!

The only control you have within Fusion 360 is to use Preferences > General > Zoom, pan and orbit shortcuts > Solidworks style. This places orbit on the middle mouse button, but you'll need the control key to pan.

Other forum posters have describe using Logitech mice and customizing the buttons to achieve something like what you want. Would that work?

Thanks and let me know if you have more questions.

Regards,

[Anonymous]

Are there any plans to let the user customize this beyond only having 2 options? I went through them all in preferences, Its either solidworks which you need to hold a button to pan, or the fusion, alias and inventor, which all function the same as far as pan orbit zoom go? Under preferences it says I have 4 options, but 3 are the exact same, as far as pan zoom and orbit go. And that's the name of the setting. Is that a mistake or bug? Its called pan, zoom and orbit shortcuts. I don't get it, there are 4 options but 3 of them are the same.....

Would it be hard to update with a 3rd option for pan, zoom and orbit to be on the mouse. Seems like most of us use orbit a LOT more then freeform selection tool. I use onshape but figured I would give fusion a shot and I just don't know if I can get use to having to hold a keyboard button with mouse button to do something simple like orbit around what you just created.

Sorry if I sound rude but I am amazed at what this software can do and yet I cant seem to have orbit and pan on the mouse where they belong.

Any plans on fixing this issue. Thanks for your time.

[Anonymous]

What mouse do you recommend I buy to make this software work right for me? I want to try something before I give up on fusion.

[Phil.E]

There are many options for mouse. I think the main issue here is that Fusion 360 has a right click context menu and pressing RMB is a gesture shortcut. So the RMB is reserved for the context menu.

There are options. For instance, you'll notice that Fusion zooms to the mouse pointer. You can avoid a lot of panning by zooming, orbiting, and zooming again. Most of which you'd be doing anyway. Just a thought. Here's a demo using Solidworks mouse settings. (No modifier keys were hurt making this demo.)

I cannot recommend a Logitech device. I never got around to purchasing one for testing. Some customers swear by them because you can map the buttons, but there are workarounds required to make them "see" Fusion after updates. 

Many people enjoy 3Dconnexion "space mouse". I have a notebook navigator, small and simple. However this requires the use of two hands or two devices. I have seen people place the device next to their regular mouse or use their other hand to manipulate it.

The closest I can get to your request is with a 3Dconnexion CadMouse. It has a wheel button, plus a MMB. I map the MMB to be command/ctrl, and use Solidworks preference. When I want to pan, just press both buttons at once. My biggest challenge is remembering there is a MMB. 

A side benefit of this is selections. When you wish to use command/ctrl to add or remove selections it's on your mouse already as the MMB.

Please let me know if you have more questions. 

Thanks and take care,