macitect Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 I asked last spring if we could zoom with a scroll-wheel mouse. Have since bought one and been happily zooming in and out!!! NOW.... is there any way we could also pan with the mouse? That would be magnificent!!! Thanks Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted October 31, 2003 Share Posted October 31, 2003 Hold down the space bar and you enter 'Boomerang' mode. This allows you to pan with the pan tool. You can do it at any time, even in the middle of drawing a polygon. [ 10-31-2003, 08:20 AM: Message edited by: McBrideNNA ] Quote Link to comment
macitect Posted November 2, 2003 Author Share Posted November 2, 2003 thanks for your reply. let me give a little more precision to my question: with the scroll wheel mouse I am able to zoom in and out by holding alt and scrolling, ie not having to go and click on the zoom tool. Is there anyway to access the pan tool in a similar way... not moving the mouse to the icon first? (I hate to say it but kinda like a*#*cad!) macitect Quote Link to comment
Bart Rammeloo Posted November 2, 2003 Share Posted November 2, 2003 Read McBride's response. If you didn't get it, read it again. "press space bar" and move your mouse. Like in Adobe software. cheers, BaRa Quote Link to comment
B.Balemi Posted November 2, 2003 Share Posted November 2, 2003 Dont know if on Windows or not .But I have to press Cntrl key to zoom with wheel . If press Alt or Shift It chnges the to vertical or horizontal panning with use of the wheel.Pressume the equivalents work on Macs. Hope that helps Brendan Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted November 3, 2003 Share Posted November 3, 2003 This is great news. Until I read this post I didn't know these features had been added. To summarize: While using any other tool, and without cancelling that tool, you can: 1. PAN (move around the page, as if by pressing your hand against the paper and then moving your hand around) -- by holding the space bar down and click-dragging with the mouse. 2. SCROLL up and down -- by rotating the scroll wheel on the mouse. 3. SCROLL left and right -- by holding the Shift key down and rotating the scroll wheel. 4. ZOOM in and out -- by holding the Ctrl key down and rotating the scroll wheel. I tested all that in version 10.0.0 under Windows 2000. I don't know what the equivalents would be for Mac. [ 11-04-2003, 01:45 PM: Message edited by: jan15 ] Quote Link to comment
macitect Posted November 6, 2003 Author Share Posted November 6, 2003 BaRa, Yes, I misunderstood...thought he was talking about the space bar with scroll wheel. Got it now thanks for the heads up. Jan15, Thanks for the clarification. It is all the exact same on Mac (alt instead of ctrl-the only minor difference). This certainly helps speed up working!!! Nice additions, Vectorworks. Quote Link to comment
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