Middle Mouse Button

Discussion created by Tony Thompson on Mar 27, 2008
Latest reply on Jul 18, 2008 by Deepak Gupta

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I am using a Dell M6300 laptop with a bluetooth wireless mouse and keyboard and I can not get the middle mouse button to work in Solidworks. I can zoom but can not rotate or pan. I am not using the dual monitor setup with my Nvidia video cart but I am using a d-port and a monitor. I have tried several setting in my mouse driver software with no success. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Wayne Tiffany Mar 27, 2008 12:40 PM
Generally I have found that to solve problems like this, go to the mouse settings in Windows and set the middle button to Middle Button, or something like that. This lets the app tell it how to act.

WT
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Kirk Jess Mar 27, 2008 12:40 PM
What OS are you using?
What do you have the middle button set to do in your mouse software?
What brand of mouse?

With my Logitech G5 I have the middle button set to Generic Button.
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- Mike Puckett @ Kirk Jess on Mar 27, 2008 1:28 PM
  The touchpad on your laptop is overriding your ability to customise your mouse. When you connect a mouse to the laptop, windows is going to treat it as a generic pointing device and give you very limited customization options. On my M90 and my Vostro I have bluetooth mice to use with them. The only way to be able to get the full functions of the mouse to to disable the touchpad and tell windows to use the mouse by default. This of course means you can no longer use the touchpad. Its really a catch 22.
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1-6XF6F3 Apr 3, 2008 5:15 PM
Tony,

If you are using the bluetooth mouse that Dell offered, the trick is to set the scroll wheel to "middle button" in the setpoint software. I know it's not intuitive, but zoom, pan, and rotate all function as expected.

Scott
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- Todd Bullis @ 1-6XF6F3 on Jul 18, 2008 6:54 PM
  That's right Scott.. and I found the Touchpad can even be turned on.
  
  Oh yeah.. Thanks for all the good help I have found.
  
  Todd
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  - Deepak Gupta @ Todd Bullis on Jul 18, 2008 7:02 PM
    To fix this problem, either change the middle button setting to Other and then select Middle Button or simply close the Mouse Suite (i.e exit the program) which I always do.
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