Is it possible to reverse the mouse wheel zoom direction?

[Anonymous]

Whoever decided it would be a good idea to set the mouse wheel direction for zooming to be the opposite of AutoCAD should be drug out in the street and beaten with a rubber hose...

Can this be reversed?

[blair]

Easy:

Application Options> Display> 3D Navigation> Zoom Behavior> Reverse direction

[Anonymous]

the most accurate and time saving answer on the page. Unless you want to try the other options as well. thanks to the answerer and double thumbs up to the comment above.

[Anonymous]

This is the most stupid thing ever done! Please call me when you find the idiot that made this decision, I want a swing of that hose!

[OBERDACKER]

I agree, it is ridiculous to have AutoCAD scroll wheel zooming set one way and the rest of Autodesk products set the opposite way.  I think all, or at least the vast majority of parametric 3D CAD modeling programs are set so scrolling away from the user (Pushing the wheel) = zoom out and toward the user (pulling the wheel) = zoom in (it's as if you're holding a "real" drawing in your hands and want to get a closer look at something so you pull it towards your face. : )  ).  This is probably why Inventor is set that way.  What I totally don't understand is why Autodesk didn't simply change the default in AutoCAD to be the same way years ago?  Why continue to train new users in AutoCAD with "backwards" scroll wheel zooming?  Set the default for all Autodesk software to be the same, but still allow the user to change it to whichever way they prefer.  It's not like Autodesk is the least bit shy about changing other default values for system variables*.  Many have been changed over the years without the slightest understandable reason*, so why not this one.   Yeah, the old timers, like me, would probably be pissed and totally incredulous as to why AutoCAD changed, but they can easily change it back to they way they want it and all new AutoCAD users would be trained in the "standard" way.  I can't tell you how many of my colleges immediately figure out how to set AutoCAD to use tool bars instead of the ribbon, so it wouldn't be that big a deal in the end.

* e.g. changing the default for how typed coordinates are interpreted in the Move command.  Since I stared using AutoCAD with Version 9 the Move command would interpret typed coordinates as absolute (i.e. after picking a base point for the move typing 0,0 meant the selected point would be moved to the origin of the drawing file.), but somewhere around AutoCAD 2010, or 2013 typed coordinates were by default interpreted as relative to the selected base point.  I can't tell you how many times I've, by habit, run through the move command only to end up with all the selected objects not being moved at all.  It has since been changed back.  or I've figured out how to make it work the way I'm used to then totally forgot that I changed anything.  Not that that's ever happened to me before, or anything.

[blair]

I think you will find the AutoCAD is backwards to Windows convention for Windows zooming convention. Since it came out long before Windows existed and the standards that followed with Windows.

Prior to Windows, in the days of DOS, when we purchased printers, we had to make sure that the Printer manufacture had the correct drivers for the software and software version we used such as AUTOCAD and WordPerfect. Even the graphics card we used required the correct drivers for the software.

As the releases of Windows evolved and standards and compliance became the norm, items such as zoom scroll direction were included in the standards. In order to achieve Microsoft "Certified" these standards had to be accepted and adopted. Since Inventor was a "new" product" it was easier to move people to the "reverse" zoom behaviour.

Since I used a Kurta digitizer way back then with the ACAD plastic command template and a NW mouse (non-wheel) it wasn't an issue. 

[Anonymous]

Agreed!!! Rubber hose!