I was talking about mouse gestures with some folks in a different thread (Glenn Schroeder, Frederick Law, John Stoltzfus) and it made me curious about how we all use mouse gestures. Now that it's easier to share a visual layout of our gesture settings (go to customize > mouse gestures), let's all share our setups, start a discussion, and learn something new!
Here's mine:
Pretty standard I'd say. The only notable thing is that I set my drawing ring to follow my workflow, clockwise from the top.
A little surprised that a few more are not like John Stoltzfus and myself by having the Extrude & Cut Extrude on the Sketch Gesture. This way you can go straight from the sketch into the Part without moving from the centre of the screen.
Like many I think having insert part on the Assembly Gesture is most productive.
It is interesting how you evolve over the years.. I now use a combination of "S" Key, Keyboard Shortcuts & Mouse Gestures.
I try and keep my mouse around the centre of my screen to reduce it's travel
Shortcut Bar in the bottom right is the choice of champions, it's the best place for your cursor to land right on the extra commands.
From SW17:
Part:
Assembly:
Sketch:
Drawing:
I must say, I use mouse gestures a lot in the sketch environment, but not so much in part and assembly, and hardly at all in drawing.
John
What's that 1:00 command?
Daniel Herzberg wrote:
What's that 1:00 command?
escape
Tony Tieuli wrote:
Daniel Herzberg wrote:
What's that 1:00 command?
escape
Yup. I set those up before I got a 3d mouse that has a built-in Escape button, so now I use both. By the way, has anyone else noticed that while placing Balloons in Drawings is the only time (that I've found, at least) where Mouse Gestures are completely disabled?
Sorry, I only have one button set up for all
Steve C
What are your 'Hot Keys' set to???
I use space mouse pro, and have assigned buttons 1,2 & 3 to radial menus.
So in each work environment (parts, assembly, modelling) I have can have up to 24 commands on radial menus. (For those who don't have space mouse, works just like mouse gesture except you hit a button to bring up the menu, then you just move your mouse over the one you want)
Parts: 
On my cadmouse, I have the zoom in button set to enter, and the zoom out button set to delete. Ctrl, esc, shift, alt are all on space mouse. I've also set the view buttons to toggle view state, and normal to, and button 4 hide all types.
I like it.
Bacon
Steve C
I've searched everywhere, but I can't find the 'Bacon' button in the list of icons. Does this mean I need to update immediately to 2019, SP2, or is it a problem with my installation?
John
Found it! Even comes on a little plate.
Decide how thick you want the rasher with this one:
You can order up the tail okay too;
...and again, Bacon side tracks everything. The one time I don't highjack a very good post with bacon and you guys step in...makes me happy.
JM
Hello SW Gesture-ites,
Functions on context menus aren't available for mouse gestures.
Some, such as ordinate dimension display options would handy to have as gestures.
I created a utility to make context menu functions available as gestures.
Info and files are at the link.
I hope you find it useful.
Kevin
I'd be so scared to use escape/exit/cancel in a crowded 12-gesture wheel. I'm afraid I'd be mostly done with a complex command, swipe into the wrong gesture, and watch it all disappear...
Hello,
If you wish to save some gesture slots, you can use the utilities below to send an Enter or an Escape using the keyboard and mouse:
More info and files are at the link.
Kevin
Hello,
By running the utitlity at this link: [Updated] Utility to display Shortcut S menu [Enter or Escape, too] using only mouse (MMB-RMB-S) , you can save these three gesture slots: Shortcut menu, Green check, red X.
The freed slots can be used for other gestures or to reduce your gesture wheel count.
And since the S menu displays by mouse, you don't need to move your Space Pilot hand to the keyboard for this.
Info and file at the link.
I hope it helps.
Kevin
1-1DYSJLK wrote:
Hello,
By running the utitlity at this link: Utility to display Shortcut S menu using mouse (MMB-RMB-S) , you can save these three gesture slots: Shortcut menu, Green check, red X.
The freed slots can be used for other gestures or to reduce your gesture wheel count.
And since the S menu displays by mouse, you don't need to move your Space Pilot hand to the keyboard for this.
Info and file at the link.
I hope it helps.
Kevin
I added "LMB-RMB-Enter" and "LMB-MMB-Escape" as separate utilities to send an Enter (green check) or an Escape (red X) by mouse only.
These are in the same link as above, but it's now titled: [Updated] Utility to display Shortcut S menu [Enter or Escape, too] using only mouse (MMB-RMB-S)
Kevin
Michael Lord wrote:
A little surprised that a few more are not like John Stoltzfus and myself by having the Extrude & Cut Extrude on the Sketch Gesture. This way you can go straight from the sketch into the Part without moving from the centre of the screen.
Like many I think having insert part on the Assembly Gesture is most productive.
I don't have them in the Sketch environment because I have them in the Part environment instead. My usual practice when I want a cut or extrude is to pre-select a plane, then select the appropriate command. That automatically opens a sketch on the selected plane. When I close the sketch (with a Mouse Gesture) the feature manager for the cut or extrude is automatically opened. By doing it that way I can assign other Sketch commands there instead of having Extruded Cut and Extruded Boss/Base commands in the Sketch environment, and if I counted right it requires the same amount of clicks (3) to get to the feature's property manager.
Glenn
Since posting mine here when this Discussion first started I've changed them up some. After seeing that S. Casale has macros on his mouse gestures (see the first page of this Discussion) I decided I'd like to have one to run a macro that will set the model to Isometric, Save, and Close the file, and thanks to Matt Martens I now have one (see Macro on Mouse Gesture). I made a couple other changes, like adding Rebuild in Parts and Assemblies.
Back during the beta of 2015 or so, they toyed with the concept of context-sensitive UI - including mouse gestures. I think it was called "workspaces" or something, but it was removed before SP0 and never heard from again. I'd love to see that concept brought back.