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I have just started to learn FreeCAD. I have watched Jayanam's "FreeCAD Tutorial for Beginners" on YouTube. A fundamental problem is that moving the mouse with the centre button pressed does not rotate the view - it just moves it. Doing the same thing with the shift, ctrl or alt keys pressed at the same time makes not difference.
For many years I used Pro Desktop, but with Windows 10 it stopped working properly. However, the same technique of rotating a a view works properly when pressing the centre button. This suggests that my system (PC with Windows 10) is working normally and interpreting mouse movements correctly.
Centre mouse button does not cause rotate
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Re: Centre mouse button does not cause rotate
Hello jondane! Welcome to FreeCAD and the forum
Perhaps "Blender Navigation" is closer to what you desire?
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Mouse%20Model
Perhaps "Blender Navigation" is closer to what you desire?
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Mouse%20Model
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Re: Centre mouse button does not cause rotate
Hi, thank you. Left+middle does allow rotation. Strangely, middle on its own worked briefly. Is there a setting to determine which navigation style is currently in use?
Best regards
Jon
Best regards
Jon
Re: Centre mouse button does not cause rotate
You can see it in the bottom line of the Window, using the right mouse menu in 3D view, then a hook is set in the Navigation styles sub menu. And finally you can see it in Preferences->Display->Navigation->3D Navigation.
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Re: Centre mouse button does not cause rotate
Thank you. I have chosen Revit which I find most intuitive.