AutoCAD TIP: Continuous Pan

http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=TP00083

Continuous Pan
Published date: 2003-03-08
ID: TP00083

Applies to:
AutoCAD® 2005
AutoCAD® 2004


With AutoCAD® 2004, under the Microsoft® Windows® XP operating system, you
can pan past the edge of the display. Use the Real-time Pan command or your
mouse wheel to pan without limits!

Tip submitted by: Heidi Hewett

My additional comment:

If you hold down the middle button (scroll wheel) you can use real-time
panning... if you keep the wheel down, you can go past the edge of the
screen AND also pick up the mouse, place back down and continue panning.

--
Tracy W. Lincoln, TLConsulting
Consulting, Design & Training Specialist
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator
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I think the tips you post are a great help for many. But,,,,, Some of the
tips, and this tip seem rather basic, something that you should perhaps
already know as this tip submitted by Heidi Hewitt seems to be rather basic.
This tip in fact is found in the 2004 version under the Help menu, New
Features Workshop, Drafting and Productivity Tools, Customer requests, Pan
and Zoom. Does Heidi Hewitt work for AutoDesk? If so I can understand the
tip as being a sell tactic for the software but I certainly hope that the
pro's using AutoCAD are way way beyond some of these basic commands. I
myself have had formal training back when you still used a pencil and paper.
I have had absolutely no training with AutoCAD LT or any other CAD program.
Seems to me that the tips may be aimed at beginners, no?
Anyway my point being, ;~) I was under the impression that I would learn
some thing from "ALL" the tips. Most the tips however are already
documented in the Help menu or the printed material that comes with the
manual.

 

And no matter how many times I tell them... it works in Windows 2000 too!

 

What's the exact sequence of commands to get this working in Windows 2000? I've never been able to achieve it.

 

Thanks Dave, I haven't had the distinct pleasure (or not <g>) of running
AutoCAD 2004 or 2005 on Windows 2000... but other who do, will benefit from
your most helpful post/reply.

 

Huw - it only works for object selection in Win2000, and only if you press
and drag to select. But it does work!

I haven't spent quite enough time with XP to see how or if it's different.
--
Dave Byrnes / Vancouver, BC
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator

message What's the exact sequence of commands to get this working in Windows 2000?
I've never been able to achieve it.

 

message What's the exact sequence of commands to get this working in Windows 2000?
I've never been able to achieve it.

Press down scroll wheel
Pan

this with a Logitech multibutton mouse with scroll wheel set to AutoScroll.

has worked for me in every version of Acad since 2000 using Win2000. I've
recently switched to XP with 2005 without any difference in scroll wheel
panning
Dave
DDP

 

What's the exact sequence of commands to get this working in Windows

Hmmmm doesn't work with a Microsoft mouse. I'm on my second Microsoft mouse, and have tried it with both Acad 2000 & 2004. with no luck. Must be your drivers.

 

Well it does autoscroll, but the selection made at the end of it does not include anything that scrolled off out of the window, for me at least.

 

Huw - works with my Microsoft Notebook Optical Mouse.
--
Dave Byrnes / Vancouver, BC
Autodesk Discussion Group Facilitator

Hmmmm doesn't work with a Microsoft mouse. I'm on my second Microsoft mouse,
and have tried it with both Acad 2000 & 2004. with no luck. Must be your
drivers.

 

sometimes I need to do a Regen All first to make it work
Dave
message Well it does autoscroll, but the selection made at the end of it does not
include anything that scrolled off out of the window, for me at least.

 

Dito here.

W. Kirk Crawford
Rochester Hills, Michigan

 

Micorsoft Mouse at work worked. Corporate Load.

W. Kirk Crawford
Rochester Hills, Michigan

 

message
Hmmmm doesn't work with a Microsoft mouse. I'm on my second Microsoft mouse,
and have tried it with both Acad 2000 & 2004. with no luck. Must be your
drivers.

Works with AutoCAD 2004LT, Microsoft Track Ball Optical on Win XP.

 

Still no luck

 

I give up - I must be the reason Autodesk say it doesn't work.

Moving to XP soon anyway.

 

Anybody ever tried panning with the CTRL key pressed? It's trippy.

 

Kinda LT-like... yowser! <g>

 

Cool, thanks - THAT works on Win2000. It's like Microsation.

 

That's normal. Depends on limit sizes. Pan up,down and to the right and
eventually you will get that same message (uppermost, downmost and
rightmost).

Matt