Logitech mouse center button..use MS drivers

[Ralph2]

Hi... for what it is worth.. My MS mouse recently died and I replaced it with a wireless Logitech.. worked good except I could not pan or rotate with the center button (wheel). Spent some time trying to find a solution and gave up.

I installed SW2009 over the holidays and went back to a clean HD image to do it. When I fired up SW I was very pleasantly surprised that now my center button works to pan and rotate. The difference... because I am still using Microsoft(R) IntelliPoint 6.1 drivers

Ralph

 

[NL8]

Ralph,

Were you using the Setpoint software for your mouse originally. If so, make sure that you're setting for the middle mouse button is set to "Middle Mouse" I believe it is (mouse is at work, will confirm on Monday). Changing this setting will give you normal mouse functionality back, along with a host of other features.

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 09 x64, SP 1.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

My hands-on experience with several systems, and after reading many forums, is exactly the opposite. Replacing MS Intellipoint with Logitech Setpoint software, has always eliminated problems the user was having with SW.

 

[Ralph2]

All I can say is that with the Logitech mouse and the latest Logitech drivers I could not get my middle mouse button to work. Since installing SW2009 on a clean system with the Intellipoint drivers the mouse works... ??

While I was poking around trying to get my $80 Logitech to work I came across numerous post with the same issue.. there was some mention of an add on to add features to the mouse "Uber.... something" as recall but any link I tried to that product was not working..

 

[NL8]

I'll send some screen shots from the office Monday showing my setup, it may help you along and get some greater benefit out of your buy. What model was it, for curiosity's sake.

Joe Hasik, CSWP/SMTL
SW 09 x64, SP 1.0
Dell T3400
Intel Core2 Quad
Q6700 2.66 GHz
3.93 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600

 

[Ralph2]

Kind of a mute point at the moment.. I purchased the MX 620 Revolution but returned it after I gave up trying to get the middle button to work.. I was going to exchange it for a MS model but there was nothing that I liked. So.. went back to an old Logitech wireless that I had abandoned years ago. The Cordless Click Plus I think it is called.. anyway with the latest drivers for the MX 620 still on the system this mouse behaved exactly the same... i.e. no panning or rotating by depressing the center wheel.
Now.. as mentioned in my earlier posts.. it works just fine (with the MS drivers)

I am still in the market for a new mouse as this one is quite heavy.

 

[IanLougheed]

I just purchased the MX Revolution mouse since I like the ability to assign my common keyboard shortcuts to the various additional buttons. With the default configuration in my up-to-date Setpoint installation, the scroll wheel would not act as either my zoom or my rotate, both functions I rely on heavily.

When you install Setpoint, you must configure the scroll wheel click to act as your middle mouse button. You can also assign scrolling with the wheel to be your zoom. This is possible without using the "uber" plug-in to modify Setpoint.

Note also that you can set up the mouse differently for different applications. So, while I have keyboard shortcuts assigned to almost every button in Solidworks, those don't carry over to other programs since they'd be useless.

Spend a bit of time (10 minutes, tops) with the configuration software and you'll be happy. I hope this is helpful.

 

[Ralph2]

Well... I liked the MX mouse so will try it again..
Thanks all

 

[fcsuper]

I use a old hack for the logitech sw to give me more functionality for each of the mouse buttons. Logitech sw supports more functions, but for some reason, they are disactivated in the driver.

Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
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