AutoCAD R14 and Microsoft Intellimouse

[Richard Hodges]

My department is running AutoCAD R14.01 on Windows NT 4.0 with the
Microsoft Intellimouse. The AutoCAD manual states on page 201 that you can
zoom in or out by using the mouse's wheel. However, this does not work on
our machines. What am I doing wrong? The Intellimouse wheel works for other
compatible programs.

Richard Hodges
aron...@gamewood.net

[Jon Fleming]

You are doing nothing wrong. Just before R14's release, problems were
discovered with AutoCAD's Intellimouse wheel support and the code was
removed. The documentation was not changed.

There are third-party programs that add wheel support. I don't know what
ones they are, offhand. You might be able to find some pointers in older
messages in this newsgroup, or in the digitize-display newsgroup.

jrf

[Steve Greer]

Jon Fleming wrote:

> There are third-party programs that add wheel support. I don't know what ones
> they are, offhand.

Jon

Zooming with the wheel is an undocumented feature of Soft Engine by Vibrant
graphics.

Steve

[Tracey Taylor]

> If you want to scroll a list in a non wheel mouse compliant
> program then get a wheel shareware like toggle mouse.

the new microsoft drivers for the intelimouse let you scroll in autocad, plus other programs that didn't
scroll before such as notepad.

Tracey Taylor
Dynaload Division
www.transdev.com

[Tracey Taylor]

> can you scroll in a DOS window? NT question there.

sorry, can't answer that one.

> What is the version of the drivers?

version 2.2
http://www.microsoft.com/intellipoint/intellir.htm

[Jeff Lanctot [Autodesk Support]]

All,

No, you will not be able to scroll in a DOS window, or in any DOS based
application.

Regards,
--
Jeff Lanctot
EPS Product Support, US
WW Support & Services, Autodesk
Discussion Q&A: http://www.autodesk.com/discussion
Tracey Taylor wrote in message <35E150FE...@mailer.transdev.com>...

[Paul Eyden]

I have AutoCAD R14.01 and have just bought a new intellimouse with
2.2drivers.
It scrolls fine in Office 97 applications but can't get it to work in
AutoCAD.
Can someone help.
Tracey Taylor wrote in message <35DD5C27...@mailer.transdev.com>...

>> If you want to scroll a list in a non wheel mouse compliant
>> program then get a wheel shareware like toggle mouse.
>
>the new microsoft drivers for the intelimouse let you scroll in autocad,
plus other programs that didn't
>scroll before such as notepad.
>

[Joseph Hoffmayer]

Dave Lewis wrote in message <3630d4e2...@adesknews.autodesk.com>...
>What do you want to scroll in autocad? Do you want to scroll dialog boxes
or the
>drawing editor? You need to be more specific. If you want to zoom with
the wheel
>then you need to buy softengine.
>

I have to add my two cents...I have the wheel, so now in R14.01 I habitually
roll the wheel when I'm in the layer dialog box to get to the bottom. Of
course it does not work, but it would be nice. Also, for architectural and
structural 2d drafting (can't say I know about other disciplines and CAD
work methods) autosnap really is a good substitute for the middle mouse
button, and any non-running snaps can be easilly chosen with the icons.
Building plans are rather zoom and pan intensive, and the aerial viewer just
takes up space, I vote for a zoom and pan scroll like LT. And throw in
polar snaps and content explorer too please.
Joe

[R.K. McSwain]

You people should try reading some previous threads.

Paul Eyden wrote in message <70i0f9$8i...@adesknews2.autodesk.com>...

[Rick Moore]

It does work with the 2.2 driver.

[Rick Moore]

Actually all you need to have is the scroll bars on. I don't like the wheel
(or the mouse) but I just tried this and it works.

>To scroll in a non intellimouse compliant application you need
>a third party mouse software such as togglemouse. It will allow
>you to scroll in anything that has a scroll bar.