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Hi, is anyone out there using a Wacom tablet for drawing in Vectorworks and would you recommend it as being better than using a mouse?

With the new Vectorwoks 2021 there is the great new feature 'Smart Options Display' I set in 'Vectorworks Preferences' to 'show with middle mouse button'. I am using a Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet, where I have one of the buttons set as 'middle mouse' behavior. Which normally functions fine as a middle mouse button. But with this feature the middle mouse button provokes the 'pan' tool (as in the old days) most of the times and sometimes it will trigger the 'Smart Option Display'. I am experiencing a mouse clicking battle 😅 and would like to tum of the 'pan' function when using the 'middle mouse' button. Does anyone here knows a way around this please? @_c_ @hollister design Studio @Tony Kostreski @JRA-Vectorworks-CAD

Any one noticed that by the latest Wacom Driver Update, VW is doing very hard now with MMB ? Beside High Sierra support they said they improved "middle mouse button" and "Move/Scroll" issues + issues with Wacom Remote when used together with a Keyboard, for certain Apps. So to say problems I never had before in any App. It does exactly the opposite for VW as their driver explanation promises. Now I have problems : - that VW accepts MMB inputs by Click+second side button at all - MMB cursor hand Symbol appears but the screen drag is shown/jumps AFTER I dragged and release MMB (No more live drag preview) - there are differences or problems between Remote shortcuts vs Keyboard shortcuts - CTRL+MMB to Flyover is often ignored at all (And may come back only after I dragged screen using the Spacebar from Keyboard Looks like they added a little lag between the click and when it is recognized as a MMB click. (Probably that may help other Apps ?)

I have some strange behavior in Resource Manger with Resource Folders* and Drag and Drop. I am not sure if that is a general, OS X or even Wacom only problem. * those new "special" individual new Resource Folders for a special Resource Type 1. In the middle main column, when I want to drag a Resource into one of my Resource Folders, it does not work like in Finder by just clicking and dragging, it works more like dragging a Row in a Numbers Ttable : I have to first click once long on the Resource, release and click drag again to make it move. (Even if that Resource was already selected before) 2. When I want to drag Resources between my opened Files. I have all Files Subfolders expanded in the tree view on the left. When I drag a Ressource (with the tedious extra click mentioned in 1.) form one File to the other's Resource Folder in the left Tree Column > All Files will collapse their Subfolders and I have to open them again for the next drag and drop action. 3. If I activate the Filter, all "other" special Sub Folders of Files will also disappear in the left Tree Column. This irritates me somehow as it looks like all Files would not have any ressource at all, if they don't at least have such a Resource Type Folder. Like the behavior of RM integrated into BIM Tools like Window, where it will only show Window related resources, where it makes sense. I am not shure if it is a good idea in main RM View where you want to manage ALL of your Resources and I expected the Filter for the Main Middle Column only.