Middle Mouse Button refuses to rotate the model

[E_Beccles]

I've recently installed NX11 on my laptop. Everything works fine, however I can't rotate or pan the model using the middle mouse button. I've gone out and bought a new mouse and that still doesn't solve it. NX acknowledges MB2 is pressed as it shows two concentric orange circles, however it does nothing. I have to use ctrl - R to rotate and that's horrendously clunky. I have a spacemouse on order however in the meantime I'm not very productive.

Any ideas?

 

[cowski]

Check the customer defaults -> gateway -> general -> 3D input device -> view options. This might only affect dedicated devices such as a spaceball, but it is worth trying.

As an alternative (if the above doesn't work), you can use menu -> view -> operation -> rotate (shortcut: [kbd]Ctrl[/kbd] + [kbd]R[/kbd]); this will let you use the left mouse button to rotate.

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[E_Beccles]

Solved it. I had to add UGII_FKEY_DYNAMICS=1 to the environment variables and restart.

Thank you for your help anyway!

 

[SDETERS]

That variable was designed for us former I-Deas users. We were using the F1,F2, F3, and F4 function keys to rotate, pan ect. the model. I do not know why turning this on would help out your middle mouse button rotate issue you are having???

 

[E_Beccles]

Not sure how it fixed it but it did. I saw it mentioned off hand in another thread and thought it wouldn't hurt to try and it seems to have fixed the problem.

 

[Toost]

This "phenomenon" is quite frequent when people buy "gaming mouses" . The mouse has an accompanying driver where one can assign almost anything to the buttons. quite often the middle mouse button has a default mapping to something completely different than "middle mouse button".
test 1)
open the mouse settings and verify that the middle mouse button is set to "middle mouse button".

test2)
uninstall the mouse driver completely.
- without this special driver , the windows default driver will kick in and probably make this mouse work as expected.
( any special buttons will not work)

Note, gaming mouses will most often work prefect with NX including their special driver, with the notation above.
I use one myself.

Regards,
Tomas