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ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000555	FreeCAD	Feature	public	2011-12-30 12:04	2012-01-01 11:47

Reporter	microtorch	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	0.11
Fixed in Version	0.13

Summary	0000555: 3D navigation using a two-button laptop touchpad
Description	Hi all, I am using FreeCAD v0.12 revision 5284 on an MSI M670 laptop running Vista 32bit. I would like to be able to use FreeCAD with the built-in touchpad rather than having to use a separate mouse. The M670 touchpad has two buttons and a scroll area to the right so zoom is fine. However, it does not have a way to do middle mouse button click or hold. Holding Left and Right buttons down together does not work, so I am really stuck. Could you consider adding a specific 3D Navigation option for this type of Touchpad? My suggestion on control mapping is as follows. Select: Left mouse button. Pan: Holding shift down whilst moving mouse causes view to pan. Rotate: Holding Shift+Ctrl down whilst moving the mouse causes view to rotate. Zoom: Scroll up = Zoom-in, scroll down = Zoom-out. Rob
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FreeCAD Information

wmayer 2011-12-31 13:45 administrator ~0001525 Last edited: 2011-12-31 14:34	Using a touch pad is the same as having a two-button mouse. To have full control switch to Inventor navigation and use this setting: Rotating == Left mouse button Panning == Shift + Left mouse button Selection == Ctrl + Left mouse button For zooming in/out our default is Ctrl + +/-. However, under Tools>Customize you can use PgUp/PgDn instead. Alternatively, I'll also implement Shift+Ctrl+Right mouse button for zooming. For CAD and Blender navigation this is already used but not for Inventor.

microtorch 2011-12-31 14:53 reporter ~0001526	Sorry, I should have mentioned that I already tried the Inventor navigation out. The problem is it doesn't allow you to select additional objects from the 3D view (because Ctrl + Left Mouse Button is now Select). My suggestion retains the use of Left Mouse Button for selection and Ctrl + Left Mouse Button to add to the selection. There is no problem with zooming (on my touchpad at least) so perhaps you could reconsider my original suggestion.

wmayer 2011-12-31 16:35 administrator ~0001527	So, if I got you right the only problem you have is the multi-selection. That's indeed not possible with the Inventor style. Your feature request should be pretty simple to implement but I just wanted to point out that with the current implementation (besides multi-selection) everything can be done with the Inventor style already.

microtorch 2011-12-31 16:54 reporter ~0001528	Yes, I was using the Inventor navigation for a while, but the multi-selection was the show-stopper.

wmayer 2012-01-01 11:47 administrator ~0001531	Added in rev 5373 Additional alternatives: Rotate: ALT + move Zoom: CTRL + SHIFT + LMB + move

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2011-12-30 12:04	microtorch	New Issue
2011-12-31 13:45	wmayer	Note Added: 0001525
2011-12-31 14:33	wmayer	Note Edited: 0001525
2011-12-31 14:34	wmayer	Note Edited: 0001525
2011-12-31 14:34	wmayer	Note Edited: 0001525
2011-12-31 14:53	microtorch	Note Added: 0001526
2011-12-31 16:35	wmayer	Note Added: 0001527
2011-12-31 16:54	microtorch	Note Added: 0001528
2012-01-01 11:47	wmayer	Note Added: 0001531
2012-01-01 11:47	wmayer	Status	new => closed
2012-01-01 11:47	wmayer	Resolution	open => fixed
2012-01-01 11:47	wmayer	Fixed in Version	=> 0.13