Expert: Bill DeShawn - 8/14/2003

Question
I recently had to replace my hard drive and when I reloaded AutoCAD 2002 and my mouse driver I lost the ability to press the middle button and have the osnap menu pop up. I could do this prior to the re-installation.

I set my middle button to "middle button" in the mouse program, restart the pc and then open ACAD 2002 but it still will not pop up. Instead I get the pan command and hand symbol.

How can I change this back to the way I preferred it?

Answer
Darleen:
Would you believe that somebody just wrote in a few days ago and said, "I want my pans and zooms, and all I get is Osnaps!".  Go figure.  Anyway, I told him to set his MBUTTONPAN system variable to 1.  In your case, set it to 0.
My preference is 1, because if I want OSNAPS, I can still hold the shift key down and hit the right mouse button, and get the OSNAP menu that way.  You can't beat the speed of zooming and panning with an Intellimouse middle button/scroll wheel.  No more zoom commands.

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