Autocad Zoom Not Working
Michelle Benitone
I'm using a brand new Brydge bluetooth touchpad in AutoCAD LT 2021. The touchpad is using the built-in Windows 10 (latest version) drivers. Dragging two fingers up or down on the touchpad will zoom in and out in AutoCAD in a very smooth, precise manner. However, every few minutes zoom will cease to function; often in the middle of a zoom motion. AutoCAD ignores all two fingered dragging motions. It seems to happen more often if I zoom mid-command. When this happens the touchpad exhibits no other odd behavior.
Zoom may start working again if I alt+tab a few times to different programs or do a manual zoom command. But not always. Sometimes instead of zoom ceasing to function it'll reduce to only moving in or out a very small amount. While zoom doesn't work in AutoCAD I can still alt+tab to something else and scroll the page up and down using the same two finger drag motion. I can then alt+tab back to AutoCAD and it still won't zoom. Or may start to zoom. Zoom working again seems to be based on the passage of time rather than any subsequent action I do once it stops working. I've yet to find something that will consistently get zoom to work again. But it always seems to start working again after 20-30 seconds of messing around.
This installation worked perfectly with a usb trackball I was previously using (died last week). Never a single zoom or pan issue. In every other way this touchpad has been working perfectly all week. The zoom glitch only happens in AutoCAD. I use a variety of other programs on this computer for hours on end and none exhibit any kind of two finger gesture ignoring behavior.
I'm actually surprised how well the touchpad works otherwise. Connection is rock solid. Every action is smooth. It just stops being able to zoom periodically. I can't imagine it's a connection issue. Why would a connection issue only effect the zoom command and nothing else? The cursor doesn't pause or skip when it happens. AutoCAD simply stops zooming for awhile. All movement and actions work fine in all other programs. It's only the zoom command in AutoCAD that is exhibiting abnormal behavior.
Whenever i zoom in (like zooming as much as it can), most of the diagonal lines are acting weird such as vanishing yet clickable, "ghost" lines appears (visible but not clickable), becomes a broken line, line stretching and etc. The Regen command doesn't help here.
Second, are these just regular lines or another type of element...dimensions, etc.? Is this happening on multiple drawings, or multiple machines? If it is only effecting your machine it may be an issue with the GFX driver. Check AutoCADs communication center to see if any new drivers have been made available for your card, also see if you have the latest service packs installed.
Not actually sure what adaptive degradation does when i'm working in 2D models most of the time, not actually sure if the performance needs to be adaptively degraded at any time.. but anyway, that worked for me, and now i can keep my nice Direct3D performance enhancements.
hello I just got a wacom intuos3 tablet =) for my poor wrists.
So it seems like it will be pretty tight for most everything especially photoshop, but I was wondering if anyone had experience setting up the tablet for AutoCAD. I'm not a power user of autocad but one thing I think I will dearly miss with the pen is the whole mouse wheel zoom/pan thing. Or is it easier to just use the mouse with autocad? Or is there a way around it?
in any case, any advise about setting this thing up autocad, illustrator or anything else would be greatly appreciated -- final review in 2.5 weeks!
for what its worth (and to add closure), I just wanted to throw my 2 cents in a couple years later. I kinda avoided the tablet because it was around final reviews and stuff and my wrist was a little better the next year. However, this semester I picked it up again -- and it is great! Between using the scroll bar on the tablet itself and getting used to it, its awesome for my body. A little slower than a mouse, but not by much.
Just wanted to add an update 2 years late. I've been outta school for a year working in a Vectorworks office. VW is a little more mouse intensive than AutoCAD so I didn't use the tablet for the first few months. But once my wrists started feeling it, I pulled it back out. Works like a charm. At this point its as fast as using a mouse.
I never got the hang of using the shortcut keys, but I do use the zoom strips all the time. I would not get a tablet without the zoom strips - it makes all the difference for CAD work..
I use a pen for autocad (since 2001). I scroll and zoom with my mouse using my left hand, and type and stylus in my right. I think this might require a modicum of ambidexterity, but it is FAST. And my wrist still functions.
so you keep a separate regular mouse not the tablet mouse to do that zooming?
when i use a stylus to work in CAD software i just use the zoom window zoom previous buttons more. but the mouse that comes with it is still good for the wrist but 1/2 as good as the pen i find.
Just another follow up. I somehow lost/snapped the button off of my Intuous pen and could not find the backup that came with the original box.
Sooo...I've been using my little bamboo (released by wacom last year?) and its been working fine. The price ($70) is much nicer than the intuos, though I'd grant that I like my larger intuos better, I'm not sure if I was buying today whether I would pay extra for the difference. I think there may be a noticable difference if you use the tablets with photoshop, but I haven't tested PS enough to say definitively.
That said I'm ordering a replacement button for my pen and will be happy to get my Intuous tablet running again.
Either way, I'd say that the mouse that comes with the tablet (ie if you pay extra for the "bamboo fun") is not much better than worthless.
FWIW I'm using the tablet in my left hand so the new Intuous4 with the control strip only on the left side is not gonna work with my drafting style (though I'd love to have the OLED buttons)
ha...I wish I was using autocad...we're using VW but more as a 2d line drawing program, so autocad (at least from my experience w/ autocad 2006) would be faster since it is the king of that type of work....
ouch. maybe you could download a demo of Bricscad xmcad progecad because since autocad is bloated and always has the buggyness it has inherently carried over from version to version(on purpose?) i feel they are a faster tool(s).
this thread showed up in a wacom-autocad search... I have used the Wacom intuos 4 tablet for several years off and on and have yet to find a really good set up. before acad v 2013 I have been using the tablet and pen as a pointer with the tip disabled, then a mouse in my left hand to right and left click. one can keep the pen on the tablet and get a good tactile sense for where the pick box is located. carpal tunnel totally goes away for me with this pen. but with the new ribbon setup the buttons in the ribbon do not respond to the click of the mouse. wondering how you have tablet configured. do you click with the pen?
I came across this exchange Google-ing for help. I have to get off the stationary mouse and onto a pen if I can for Design Suite 14 and CS6/PS6 usage, along with attempting to use the new sketch and raster functions. I have an old Wacom UD1218R serial PC tablet I can resuscitate, but there are no drivers for WIN7/64 Pro and all the registry hacks etc. are beyond me. For starters do I need to convert it to a USB hookup in order to then proceed with the rest of the fix? Has anyone actually gotten the old boards up and running with all the pressure sensitive levels and buttons working?
I noticed above that people are having issues with the ribbon and the tablet. is this going to work going forward - ripple effects, ribbon etc. and is a replacement tablet a necessity? It seems that the new suite sketch programs are looking for a board tie-in as well. look forward to hearing from you all,
The information above its for Autocad use, in order to minimize the no-mouse-scrollwheel-shock. I have no ideas or experience on old wacoms but you could try the wacom forums, as far i understand this forum its dedicated only to autocad related issues.
still wish there was a translation of the above piece so I could see if there is info that I can apply to my own purposes. I am curious if the new tablets work properly with the ribbon in AutoCAD products before making a new heavy investment.
Interesting all the answers about not using a Wacom tablet with AutoCAD. Well, I have been using a Wacom Intuous4 tablet for 12 years and AutoCAD since release 11 (1990). And have always used tablets, of course, tablet digitizers for the DOS versions of AutoCAD.
I can tell you this, nothing beats the pen tablet! You can apply settings to the pen buttons, the touch ring and the tablet buttons individually! For example, in AutoCAD, I just hover over the pen, to the area I want to zoom in and use the touch ring to zoom in/out. To pan, I have assigned a pen button to it, just hold the pen button and pan away! For 3D navigation, I use the pen button+Shift button on the tablet. The tablet buttons have ESC, Shift, Ctrl, ALT, L-mouse click and R-mouse-click assigned to them.
When it comes to command input in AutoCAD, I use the icons. Clicking on a command icon with the pen doesn't require you to drag it from one point to another as you would do with a mouse, not helpful with sticky surfaces or a dirty mouse. The area of the tablet is representing the whole screen. I draw/design 50% quicker than people using a mouse.
The last year (i think), sometimes when i import dwg:s the zoom goes out to MAX and the zoom function in businesscenter stops working. Probablu because i am to far out. This problem has occured the last year i think. Must have something to to with updates to BC, autocad or any other software. Is there someone else with this problem? Because i dont know how to find "tha bad guy" in the file and erase it. Anyone that know how to do?
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