Middle Mouse Button View Rotation Issue

[RFarmer098]

Hello,

I am having this sudden issue with UG NX9... Usually when using the middle mouse button to rotate my model it would be fine. But all of a sudden the rotation is very very slow. My mouse has to travel across the entire screen to rotate 10 or 20 degrees... Has anyone came across this before??? Or know how to fix it. Its driving me insane....

 

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[LinuxFreak]

While a SpaceMouse would definitely be the preferred solution, perhaps you're using a mouse temporarily (i.e. laptop while traveling)? In any case, one setting that can have that effect is the "High Precision Rotation" setting in the Customer Defaults. I tried turning that on once to see what it did. It didn't take me long to turn it off again since it slowed rotation down a LOT!

You can find it under:
1) File, Utilities, Customer Defaults
2) Gateway, Visualization, View/Screen tab

There you'll see a check box for High Precision Rotation. Uncheck it, Click OK and then restart NX for the changes to take effect.

Mind you, if this is suddenly behaving this way, I'm not sure if this setting is the culprit, but it's worth checking it out.



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NX 10.0.2.6 / Teamcenter 10.1.3.2 / ANSYS 16.1

 

[JohnRBaker]

If the 'High Precision Rotation' option is not the problem then perhaps you'll need to check the mouse driver setting inside of Windows using the Mouse Control Panel.

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[hoolito]

Hi,

I am also experiencing very slow rotation since upgrading to NX10. "High Precision Rotation" is OFF.
I do have a SpaceNavigator but I don't use it all of the time on my portable system.
Holding CTRL to zoom in/out works fine though (same as I had in NX9), so I guess I'm fine at mouse driver level.
Any other ideas?

Thanks
Julian

 

[hoolito]

Hi,

Just a quick update to let you know that I stumbled upon the solution of this problem.
It turns out that the Customer Defaults only has a checkbox to enable or disable "High Precision Rotation" but there is actually a value for this variable.

I found a (commented out) variable on ugii_env_ug.dat called "UGII_ROTATION_PRECISION_VALUE 8.0"
Exactly like that, without an equal sign.
I added a this variable with a value of 1 to the exceptions file "ugii_env.dat" (UGII_ROTATION_PRECISION_VALUE=1.0) and voila, I have a fast rotating view by mouse middle button again like I had until NX9
Thanks serendipity.

Julian