csmilo Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 Greetings, I have now jumped aboard VW2015, and have really been enjoying it. The biggest thing that I had hoped for, but doesn't seem to exist, is an option to enable Apple complaint trackpad behavior. Apples guidelines state that panning should be accomplished by holding two fingers and dragging, and zooming should be accomplished by pinching. Anyone who has used the Mac version of Autocad, since v2013, will appreciate how much this improves drawing navigation. For anyone who is a mac user, and confused about what I am speaking about, I am talking about the trackpad use in programs like preview, or any of the iWork (or whatever they are calling it now) products. If there is a third party plugin, or new setting in 2015 which makes this possible, I would love to hear about it. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 3, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 3, 2014 It wasn't rushed since many Mac users do not use a trackpad, and there wouldn't be a direct benefit for Windows users, since the hardware for Windows trackpads varies so greatly. So the "it benefits everyone" features were pushed higher in the pile. The multitouch features are coming, however, I do not know of a set date. Quote Link to comment
csmilo Posted October 3, 2014 Author Share Posted October 3, 2014 Oh hey, thanks! It's interesting to find out the usage patterns of other offices. Our office is 100% Magic Trackpads here, I guess I just assumed that was normal for the Mac crowd. Glad you guys are still thinking about it, despite us being a minority. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted October 3, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted October 3, 2014 I suspect it goes both ways, if we DID have multitouch function support for trackpads in Vectorworks, a lot more users may begin to adopt them into their workflows. Quote Link to comment
mac@stairworks Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 That's true Jim. You can't use what you don't have. I would be on board with it. Quote Link to comment
branclark1992 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Hi, I'm a new VW user on a 2018 MacBook Pro (primarily using trackpad). I'm finding it much more difficult to navigate without the Apple compliant gestures. It's a shame that this thread is six years old now and VW still hasn't updated with the feature. Other, less intuitive programs such as Rhino are much easier to navigate with a track pad. Quote Link to comment
Ed Wachter Posted March 29, 2022 Share Posted March 29, 2022 I just noticed that if I uncheck "Enable mouse wheel zooms" in VW Preferences then I can use the track pad on my new MacBook Pro, at least in VW2022. Two fingers work for panning. A pinching gesture works for zooming. Hopefully this will work for other MacBook users. Ed Quote Link to comment
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