Remapping shortcut keys to mouse buttons

[tim.brammer00]

Good evening,

I'm quite new to Fusion 360. I recently bought a mouse with extra buttons and now I am wondering if it is possible to map some of the shortcuts to these buttons? For example, it would be really helpful if I could carry out the "measure" command using one of the buttons on the mouse instead of the "i" key. 

The mouse is a Logitech mouse and I am running the Program on a MacBook. 

Regards,

Tim

[jhackney1972]

Normally you would use the Logitech mouse application to assign commands to your mouse.  It either came with this application or you can download it from the Logitech website.

[lance.carocci · Accepted solution]

The challenge with "extra button" mice and keyboards is that those key inputs are generally only recognized by the device's driver, before being forwarded as a keystroke/click/event that the OS can recognize.

While a lot of applications support Mouse Button 1-3, and often 4/5, anything beyond that is not part of any interface standard; similar limitations exist with keyboards that have macro keys, too.

The workaround for this is generally to map those buttons to a function the OS can recognize, such as an existing key or button. An example of this would be binding "Mouse Button 26" to "s" so that both S on the keyboard and MB26 trigger the search box. If you were to unbind S from Search, MB26 would stop working, too, since you're now just mimicking an unbound hotkey.

Logitech Options software supports creating a custom profile for any executable, so you should be able to set up a highly customized set of mouse-based shortcuts, without impacting any non-Fusion workflows.

[alanf156]

Thank you for that helpful reply!

[marshhome]

I have a Logitec 3 button mouse and find by default, the middle button depressed gives me pan.  The third button on OnShape gave me orbit which was incredibly useful.  Can I instruct Fusion to recognise the third button to action orbit?

[lance.carocci]

Try setting Fusion's Pan/Zoom/Orbit shortcuts to "Solidworks" within the General section of application Preferences.

[marshhome]

Dear Lance,  thank you very very very much for your advice. Solidworks didn't do the job but Tinkercad did.  Nw I can get on with it!