Right Click For Pan/Orbit

[RobbGodshaw]

I run Fusion 360 on a Windows 8.1 Virtual Machine on my mac as I have found the PC version to be better featured and more stable, especially for CAM.

Without a tremendous amount of additional clicking, it is nearly impossible to use Fusion with the trackpad without lugging around a additional peripheral. The VM doesn't allow for the wonderful multi-touch of the native OSX app, and the trackpad cannot send middle-clicks. The ViewCube could come to the rescue, but I find it always rotates in undesired and non intuitive ways when I double-click it's corners, twisting my part horizon in ways I dislike.

I request a settings dialog that allows me to disable the right-click gestural menu completely, and remap secondary click to pan/orbit.

This would be useful for folks who are using VMs on Mac hardware and for folks who have Rhino muscle memory(right click orbit) and find themselves stuck in a blue ball of gesture-line spaghetti whenever they try to pan/orbit with the right click.

-Robb Godshaw, Exhibit Fabricator for the Autodesk Gallery at One Market

[gabriele]

the easy way to clone the mouse actions is to add menu customization. It's an easy job for all programmers at Autodesk.

I already requested this feature when Fusion360 Ultimate was released.

A friend of mine that worked for several years with Softimage then was forced to use Maya at ILM.

He was able to customize everything.

I don't understand why we have to use the preprogrammed Fusion360 mouse commands. I want to assign orbit to the RMB.

Also Spaceclaim has this feature. I cloned all Rhinoceros mouse commands in every program I use, except Fusion360.

regards

[promm]

Thank you for your idea - this is getting archived due to lack of votes.

Cheers,

Mike Prom

[boris.stanimirovic]

Can we unearth this one. 

Being a power user with huge software range ( CAD, Rendering, DTP, Photo Editing,), I find it REEALLY difficult to switch between muscle memory paths multiple times a day.

Not difficult - frustrating. 

Any kind of simulated spatial manipulation is heavily intertwined with physical neural paths. Brain actually does not discern between reality and simulation. On a neural level it is all the same. Somebody at Autodesk should know this.

I honestly think that this kind of oversight unnecessarily drains energy on daily basis. 

This should be a no brainer, you should always let the user set up the MAIN interface points according to own preferences.

On the side note, Autodesk Print Studio uses mouse mapping for camera movements completely different from fusion360.

One would guess that a company which specialises in everything 3D would make the transition seamless, at least with a few options buried deep into preferences.

P.S. Pls do not ruin the print studio now 🙂

[jeremy.herbert]

I realise this is archived, but +1 for me

[jakerobertread]

Agreed!

[Scoox]

Archived? Personally, I find the right mouse button "gestures" a little gimmicky. I've watched hundreds of Fusion 360 video tutorials by power users and I can't remember any one of them ever using right mouse button gestures. Likewise, I never felt the "urge" to use this feature, but I do get the urge to disable it (if only it were possible) so I don't accidentally trigger gestures, which has happened many times. I and most users tend to find keyboard input to be precise, while swipe gestures are clumsy. The fact that the pros aren't using this speaks volumes, too.

I have never used gestures, but I use orbit all the time, and it gets tiring constantly having to hold down Shif to do something that really should be a one-handed affair.

As other fellow Fusion 360 users have requested above, it would be nice if we had options to configure how the mouse right button works.

Otherwise loving Fusion 360, thanks!

[Scoox]

Just submitted a feature suggest on Idea Station, please vote if you are interested: Right click for orbit & disable gestures  Thanks!

[mauricioantoni]

Sería muy bueno que implementaran la posibilidad de orbitar con el botón derecho del mouse

[peter_tj_andrews]

Another +1 for this. Would make things much more easy to use.

[boris.stanimirovic]

Finaly:

Preferences/General/Pan, Orbit Zoom shortcuts - Tinkercad

[cds333]

This is a fusion forum, not tinkercad. I don't understand the relevance of that last post.

But definitely another vote for adding this! Most other programs like Cura for example use right click to orbit. It should be a customizable setting!