Microsoft Explorer Mouse

[bobsy852]

I was stuck with an old roller-ball style mouse for my office computer and so decided to upgrade! Took it upon my self to buy a new mouse (not a fan of trackballs), and this way it was mine, should my one at home break!

 

Looked around a bit and eventually settled on the Mircosoft Explorer mouse with new BlueTrack technology. Having used it for a day now I must say how impressed I am!

 

Comes with a rechargable kit, and only needs 15mins to do a day's work. However I chose to charge for 2.5hours to get a number of weeks use out of it! It's fantastically sensitive, which if your like me and like a sensitive, fast moving mouse, then it's brill!

It's fantastically compfortable!

It's got a 4-way scroll wheel, which having never used a 4-way scroll before I'm impressed with!

There are also two button on the right thumb which can be set to different things in different applications which I've found useful for AutoCAD! Setting one for copy with base point (As I use this a lot).

At first I set the second to "undo", however ussing the press of the scroll wheel to pan in AutoCAD seems to react just a second too slow for my liking!

It's my only issue with it, not sure why it does it, but it's meant I now use one of the customisable buttons for the pan tool.

 

Overall, im impressed though! Got it for a good offer instead of paying £70 from Microsoft, got it for £22 on Amazon!

 

Just thought I'd give it a quick review in here during my lunch as I read a lot of people looking for advice on which mice or trackballs to buy etc.

 

Overall: 9/10 for AutoCAD use

10/10 for general computer use!

[Dana W]

however ussing the press of the scroll wheel to pan in AutoCAD seems to react just a second too slow for my liking!

It's my only issue with it, not sure why it does it, but it's meant I now use one of the customisable buttons for the pan tool.

 

There should be a control for that in the setup utility that came with the mouse.

 

Most new (post 2005) meeses have the 4 way wheel. On my Dell, it is on the Wheel tab > Horizontal scrolling.

 

I don't use that at all though. Most of us do the following.

 

Click into your mouse setup from control panel and set the wheel (button 3) to middle button. If you have to go through a function or task seletcion, also select middle button for that.

 

Then you can merely click the wheel down and drag the screen to pan all over the place at warp factor 9.

[bobsy852]

I don't use that at all though. Most of us do the following.

 

Click into your mouse setup from control panel and set the wheel (button 3) to middle button. If you have to go through a function or task seletcion, also select middle button for that.

 

Then you can merely click the wheel down and drag the screen to pan all over the place at warp factor 9.

 

I looked in the control panel settings for the mouse and can't just see anything for the speed that this button clicks! As I said it works rapidly enough in other applications.

Apologies, I don't fully understand what you mean by by using the middle button of the mouse (the scroll wheel press button/button 3) for a function task or task selection?

I already have it set as "middle button" so that it's used for panning, it just seems to take a second to register that I've pressed it. So it will still scroll for a sec if I've pressed the wheel in if I accidently scroll the wheel. It just means I either use one of the side buttons on the mouse or I take that extra second or two to press the button ensuring I don't scroll the wheel for a sec.

Obviously these extra seconds seem like forever!

[Dana W]

Sounds like you have the wheel clickdown assigned correctly in Windows, or it would not be executing the pan command in AutoCAD. That is AutoCADs default for middle button (button 3). I have no clue where your time delay is coming from. Weird.