3 Replies Latest reply on Jan 31, 2018 9:25 PM by John Martell

Dropping selection when 3D orbiting using touch screen

Roman Boychuk Jan 22, 2018 7:57 AM

I sometimes use a laptop with a touch screen to work on parts and assemblies, often without a mouse, and end up using the touch screen a lot to manipulate my views around whatever I'm working on. This all works well, except for when I need to select multiple features like for a set of fillets. After selecting one or more features, I would touch the screen to orbit, but when I let go, all of my existing selections are lost.

Is there any way to retain selections when touching and orbiting on a touch screen?

Is there any other way to easily orbit without a mouse that isn't the view cube? It works alright, but its not the best.)

Re: Dropping selection when 3D orbiting using touch screen

Kevin Berni Jan 22, 2018 8:19 AM (in response to Roman Boychuk)

Hi Roman,

What version of SOLIDWORKS are you using? We did have some issues with this in the past that were resolved with 2018.
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  Roman Boychuk Jan 23, 2018 7:51 AM (in response to Kevin Berni)
  
  I am using 2017-2018 at the moment.
  
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Re: Dropping selection when 3D orbiting using touch screen

John Martell Jan 31, 2018 9:25 PM (in response to Roman Boychuk)

I'm having the same issue (2017 SP5.0) and what I read elsewhere is that the Options>Touch is missing, which controls distance between fingers for whether it's a pan or rotate movement, mainly. I assume the absence of the options section means it is not ready for touch, thus, the issue. Possibly the 2017 install doesn't recognize the touchscreen feature, and not sure if it's possible to force it to (maybe registry override somewhere?) Options>Touch exists in the 2016 version I have installed, so I'm not sure why it's not showing up for 2017.
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