Help Please - How can I get my mouse wheel to zoom and pan in ACAD 2010? Thanks

[Davidbrittain11]

Thanks for the replies everyone. Problem still persists but its weird - I take the mouse to work, plug it into my work Dell laptop which runs AutoCAD 2010 and it pans and zooms with the wheel no problem.

Then I bring it home, plug it into my home laptop (Dell again) running AutoCAD 2010 and the wheel is next to useless!

So its not that its a cheap **** mouse! Its something else that I can't work out. Frustrating. I will keep looking at solutions.

[Dadgad]

Check the value for your ZOOMFACTOR? Valid values are in the range of 3 to 100, with 100 being the highest value available.

[Davidbrittain11]

Hi,

Changing ZOOMFACTOR does nothing I'm afraid. Mousewheel still useless and I now had no idea how to get the damn thing panning and zooming. Why does it work when I plug it into my work laptop running the exact same AutoCAD version, but not on my home laptop??

The work laptop is running Windows XP Pro whereas I run Windows 7 Pro which might be the cause. But how to rectify that?? No idea - will keep looking!

Thanks
Dave

[SLW210]

It is your mouse driver maybe. Are you using 32-bit or 64-bit OS? Did you try the program I recommended?

[Davidbrittain11]

Hi SLW210,

Thanks for the reply - yes, I tried the mouse tool re. the link you posted but there is no option for choosing AutoCAD as the application with which to tailor the mouse button/wheel clicks so it's of no help.

I run Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit so I can only presume that's the problem here but when I try to download an updated mouse driver I get a message that the current driver is the most up to date and that everything is fine - which it is not!! Grrrrr

So back to square one. Very frustrating but par for the course with IT......!!

[SLW210]

I use X Mouse Button Control just for AutoCAD, are you following the instructions? You just click Add and browse to the application file (ACAD.exe).

[Davidbrittain11]

SLW210,

Many thanks but, as ever with IT, its not straighforward it seems. I clicked 'add' to try to browse to 'ACAD.exe' but there is no such file located in any of the folders under the AutoCAD 2010 folder in the C;Programs directory. I can see nothing with that file extension but it must be somewhere!! I have unhidden

So where is ACAD.exe located exactly so I can browse to it?? Sorry - not that up with this sort of stuff and its never as easy as it should be!

Thanks loads,
Dave

[f700es]

Hey David, did you ever check to see if your home laptop is running any 3rd party mouse software? I have seen this mess up AutoCAD before. I can almost bet that it is not Win7 doing this. I have a new Dell laptop running Win7 Home Prem 64-bit and my mouse works just fine. Honestly it should be plug and play. Did it ever work with this laptop? Have you tried another mouse just to eliminate a hardware problem? Sorry you are having just a time

[Davidbrittain11]

Hi F700ES,

Thanks for the post and your sympathies! This is doing my head I must admit. Yes it should be plug and play like everything else has been with my new Dell laptop and win 7 but not this issue. I tried plugging in a dell Mouse my wife uses which pans and zooms fine on her Acer machine when running the AutoCAD LT2008 vesion she has, but again, plug it into mine and - nothing.

[SLW210]

In AutoCAD commandline (findfile "acad.exe") should display the path.