Comments on: Using AutoCAD Navigation Tools

By: Edwin Prakoso

Edwin Prakoso — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:51:05 +0000

PJ,
AutoCAD and Inventor does have similar navigation tools, but they are actually different applications. In Inventor, you can hold [F4] button and using your mouse to rotate the view. In AutoCAD you can hold [shift] and your mid button. You can use keyboard and mouse combinations, and you can customize it as you preferred. But as far as I know, you can’t use two mouse buttons at once.
I know CATIA. I don’t think any other application are using the same navigation controls.

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:55:19 +0000

I use catia v5 at work and the most beautiful thing about is is the view manipulation from mouse.
i.e.
hold middle to pan
click middle to fix rotation point of model
hold middle and then click leftb to enter zoom mode
hold middle and then hold leftb to rotate about rotation point above

It is probably the best use of mouse buttons I have ever come across in any application on the planet
it must increase cad productivity 10fold
it should be a world wide standard
yet not even the other cad companies adopt it

or am I wrong? i am eager to use auocad inventor for a small personal project at home but the thought of having to click an icon to rotate the model just makes me sick

is there anyway to have catia controls in autocad???

By: Luiz Carlos Cardoso

Luiz Carlos Cardoso — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:22:00 +0000

Hi, Edwin Prakoso…
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Regards
Luiz Carlos Cardoso
Projects HVAC AutoCad and Revit MEP.

By: waseem195

waseem195 — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:19:59 +0000

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