Undocumented Mouse Behavior in 2004

Hello all,

Since installing 2004 I have noticed an intermittent peculiar mouse
wheel action.

Sometimes, when rotating, the model locks into rotation about an
invisible axis and swings like it was hinged. If I release the wheel
and then start rotating again, the strangeness goes away. Upon
experimenting, I found that it only happened when I was zooming in or
out and then went immediately into rotation, without any delay. I have
been unable to control it to my advantage, other than to note that it
will usually choose an axis normal to the face where the mouse cursor
was while zooming.

Has anyone else noticed this behavior?

My mouse is a Wireless Intellimouse Explorer running Intellipoint driver
4.10.851.0
Nvidia 980 XGL driver 4.1.0.3
Intel 3.06 GHz 2 gig RAM

Sincerely,
Jerry Forcier

 

I discovered this during Beta. What is happpening is you can pick an
edge edge with the wheel button and then click and hold the wheel button
again to rotate as normal and it will rotate about that edge that was
picked. Sometimes it seams to pick an edge under the curser when you
just try to do a normal rotate. You need to click again to release the
edge. The ability to pick and rotate about an edge is great but it
seams a little qwerky at times.

Dave H

 

also points (corners) and cylindrical edges (rot about axis) - although this
last is a bit hit and miss...

 

It is documented and in the "whats new" manual.

Mostly works pretty good. I have found that some of the new MS mouse
drivers don't work that well with the SW middle mouse roller. I tried to
get the new side tilting wheel mouse to work and it had problems.

Jay

 

you need to turn off the intelliwheel for that the solidworks application.
You have to do this every time you install or upgrade solidworks.

Steve

 

Hello again, and thanks to everyone. I finally figured it out with your
help - I have to click the line using the WHEEL, then release and rotate
like always to get the new action. This is very cool - I can eliminate my
'R' key to get into this useful mode without using both hands. Then, again,
maybe my mousing hand needs a break - not more duty cycle!

Thanks all,
Jerry Forcier

 

Yes, I like the new view manipulation tools (ability to use the MMB to
click on a point/edge/plane and rotate about it). It eliminates the
need to use the rotate tool. I have a MS Intellimouse in which I bind
the large thumb button to CNTRL and the small thumb button to SHIFT. In
this way, all view manipulation can easily be handled with the mouse and
one hand.

HOWEVER, my PET PEEVE with mouse view manipulation in SWX is how the
graphics window seems to loose the mouse link in certain situations.
Thus, the mouse rotate and wheel zoom won't work until you click in the
graphics area. For instance: Click on a feature in the FM Tree. Then
move the mouse over the window and try to zoom with the scroll wheel.
You cant until you click.

I think there are lots of other situations in SWX where the mouse
behaves this way and it ALWAYS SEEMS TO PISS ME OFF!!!

 

Arlin,

About you pet peeve; The way I deal with that is to click with the mouse
wheel itself. It's kind of like a really heavy handed zoom by rolling the
wheel. This works for me a lot better than changing my synaptic response
and shifting to a different finger.

Sincerely,
Jerry Forcier

 

About you pet peeve; The way I deal with that is to click with the mouse

Yes, I do the same. It just often catches me of guard. Sometimes you
need to first click, and other times it works without the extra effort.

I just wish it would always work and never need to click. If the mouse
point is in the graphics area, view manipulation mode should be
automatic.