The middle mouse button has many‚ features or options‚ in MSCAD2005 and MapScenes 2006, including the ability to Zoom In and Out by rolling the mouse wheel. Zoom Extents by double clicking the mouse wheel. Panning by picking and holding the mouse wheel and moving the mouse.
The Entity Snaps are not available on the middle mouse wheel (by default) but you can get them by holding the Shift key down on the kepboard, and at the same time pick the Right Mouse button.
You can modify the middle mouse button so that the Entity Snaps are available but in doing so the Pan and Zoom Extents options would be disabled - Trade Offs.‚ To make the Middle Mouse button bring up the Entity Snaps, type MBUTTONPAN at the command line, and turn it OFF.‚ To reverse this type the command again and turn it back ON.
There is the Entity Snap toolbar, which defaults to being on the right side of the screen, which can be moved on screen, as desired, for easy picking.
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Other Mouse shortcuts‚ ‚ |
Shortcut Action |
| Ctrl + Shift + Hold and drag left mouse button‚ ‚ | Real-Time Zoom command |
| Ctrl + Shift + Hold and drag right mouse button‚ ‚ | Real-Time Pan command |
| Ctrl + Hold and drag left mouse button‚ ‚ ‚ | Real-Time Sphere command |
| Ctrl + Hold and drag right mouse button‚ | Real-Time Z command |
| Shift + Right-click mouse‚ ‚ ‚ | Entity snap shortcut menu |
| Pick Entity then Hold and drag left mouse button | Move selected entities |
| Pick Entity then Ctrl + Hold and drag left mouse button‚ | Copy and move selected entities |
| Pick Entity then Right-click mouse‚ | Menu with common Edit commands |
| Pick and Hold mouse wheel, and then move mouse‚ | Pan command |
| Right Click on any toolbar‚ | Brings up Toolbar floating menu |
| Right Click in Command Bar‚ | Allows copying of Command Text |
There is a variable that can be set to control how fast the zoom in and zoom outs are when rolling your middle mouse button.‚ Type in ZOOMFACTOR and set it from 3 to 100.‚ ‚ Higher numbers indicate more movement when you roll the mouse wheel.
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