You change the setting for the scroll wheel generally, but that might affect how it works for you in other programs. Now, the scroll wheel works as sketchup says it ought to for zooming, orbit, and panning. But there is an option for "enable program-specific settings." Here, I set the scroll wheel to "autoscroll," specifically for the sketchup program. In the device settings, the scroll wheel is set to "flip" (whatever that means) as the default.
When I pressed the scroll wheel, it sent me out of sketchup and into some other application widow that was open on my desktop. I was having this same problem with "orbit" and the scroll wheel. Thanks for trying to help but I'm still no further ahead unless I misunderstood your suggestion.ĭiannep wrote:Mike, I am just setting myself up with sketchup and just beginning to use it.
from within any command, press down the scrollwheel to re-orient your model, then release and you're back in your previous command's mode. My understanding from the SU help (and from a Google's Sketchup for Dummies book. Problem is, with the mouse configured this way, if I'm say drawing lines and I just want to re-orient my model using the intended mouse shortcut, depressing the scrollwheel activates the Orbit function (as per the keystroke assignment set above), I then have to left click the mouse and drag to orbit the model, then I'm stuck in orbit mode (reclicking the scrollwheel doesn't de-activate the orbit mode) and either have to hit the Esc key or re-select the Draw Line command. The closest I can come to is to change the setting for the MX-600 scrollwheel from 'Universal Scroll' to 'Keystroke Assignment' and set keystroke assignment to 'o' for orbit to use SU's keyboard shortcut. there isn't one that I can find (the Logitech Setpoint SW/MX-600 mouse combo I have doesn't seem to provide separate settings for what the scrolling action does vs what depressing the scroll wheel does). I'm assuming you mean if there is a 'wheel/middle click option' on the Logitech Setpoint software. Srolling back and forth does correctly zoom in/out. It's as though there is nothing programmed for that function. pressing down on the scroll wheel does nothing. 'Draw Line') by holding down the scrollwheel (which is supposed to temporarily activate the 'Orbit' function). My goal is to be able to use what I understand to be a built-in mouse shortcut which allows a user to simply re-orient their sketch without having to exit the command they are in (e.g. Sorgesu wrote:if you have a wheel/middle click option, try that