Navigation

The Navigation page lets you configure mouse button and wheel behavior.

The following topics are discussed:

Mouse Button Customization

Customize how the mouse buttons work.

Mouse Button Keyboard Key Description
+ (none) Specifies the right-click action.
+Ctrl, Alt, or Shift key Specifies the right-click action with Ctrl, Alt, or Shift pressed.
+ (none) Specifies the wheel-click action.
+Ctrl, Alt, or Shift key Specifies the wheel-click action with Ctrl, Alt, or Shift pressed.
Reverse mouse wheel Reverses the mouse wheel action. For example, roll up to zoom in instead of zooming out.

Note: See Actions below for a description of all actions.

Mouse Behavior Customization Commands

These commands let you specify a default mouse behavior.

Option Description
Set as SOLIDWORKS Uses the default SOLIDWORKS mouse behavior.
Reset Uses the default Composer mouse behavior.

Actions

All actions that can be associated to mouse button and wheel behavior are described here.

Action Name Description
None No action.
Zoom Zooms the model in and out.
Zoom paper Zooms the paper space.
Pan Moves the camera across the scene.
Pan paper Moves the camera across the paper space.
Rotate Turns the model in 3D about one axis.
Rotate roll Turns the model on a drawn axis between the camera and the center of the scene.
Rotate view point Turns the camera in 3D.
Rotate free Turns the model in all directions (no fixed axis).