Expert: Bill DeShawn - 6/27/2007

Question
I cant seem to get the middle button pan function to work. I have a Kensington pilotmouse laser wireless running mouseworks 6.22. I have tried every option to get this function to work but to no avail. Any suggestions?
thanks in advance
Rob Marcolini
Mechanical Engineer

Answer
Robert
AutoCAD and its verticals are designed to be used with the Microsoft Intellimouse line of mice.  There are lots of cool mice out there, but they are a pain in the neck to get to work with AutoCAD.  Try this:  Uninstall your mouse software that came with the mouse you bought and change the driver for it to the Microsoft Wheel mouse that came with Windows.  That SHOULD make it work.  Apart from that, make sure MBUTTONPAN is set to 1.  Also, I don't recommend wireless mice for AutoCAD.  They hesitate a little bit when drawing (just a little) and they always need batteries.  I'm very happy with my Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (with wire).  It has two buttons on it that can be used for other things.  In my case, one is the delete key and the other is F9 (turns snap on and off).  My boss makes us draw on snap (it's annoying to say the least).  With PICKFIRST set to 1, you can use the delete key to erase objects.
OK?  So, Mouse 1.0 first lesson:  Use Intellimouse
(No I don't have any stock in Microsoft)
:)
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