Are there any Magic Mouse users here? I’m thinking of getting a Magic Mouse because when using my Logitech mouse when I go to pan by clicking and holding the scroll wheel, if it slightly turns before I click then I can’t pan. I find myself constantly retrying to click to pan. So my question is, do you have to hold any keyboard keys down to pan or can you pan, orbit and zoom straight from the Magic mouse? I don’t like having to constantly hold down a button on the keyboard to perform what the mouse is capable of doing?
Thanks
Hello Dino12,
Yes, using a magic mouse, for about a year now. I set it up with the Fusion 360 navigation presets. So, using keyboard keys.
About six months ago I bought a SpaceMouse compact. Thats made a dramatic change to handling navigation. Still working on my initial project of trying to “fly through & record”.
My 2¢ worth.
You can have a look at Elecom EX-G, programmable buttons. Since I have started to use it for SketchUp about 10 years ago, I never touched a normal mouse, even for office work.
I know this is an old thread, but I have to air my frustration with magic Mouse. In my opinion, on a practical and functional level, ‘Magic’ mouse is 100% magically unusable with Shapr3D. I wasted 80.00 on it, and switching to a cheap regular mouse, with middle click and scroll wheel.
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I agree. I’ve had no luck with it whatsoever. I thought that since the surface was basically a trackpad, it would zoom just like the trackpad. But no. Two-finger gestures on Magic Mouse do nothing. I really do not understand why this can’t “just work,” if there is something wrong with the way Shapr3D is set up or if it’s simply incapable of working with the Magic Mouse.
Normally, I prefer my Logitech MX Anywhere 3, which has been fantastic for most things. In this case however, it is the only mouse I have currently at my disposal. And you would think that with a two-axis-capable “scroll” motion, it would be more useful. Setting aside my own frustrations with the Magic Mouse in general, I’m just irritated that this can’t be remedied.
And I am not about to upgrade my iPad to a Pro 13 when I have a perfectly capable Macbook Air with a larger screen. I know this was originally designed with iPad in mind, but it is just as powerful on the Macbook… except for navigation.
I ended up buying a cheap wireless mouse, I think the brand was TechNet, and it has worked great for Shapr3D.