MS Intellimouse "extra" buttons not working in SolidWorks

Hi,

Please check:

"Add Ins..." (under options and customize)

then "Ohter Add ins" and 3dControl

The check boxes at the left as well as at the right should be checked (true).

Good luck

Hugo.

Hmm- for anyone who still has a problem, I'm using an Optical Explorer Intellimouse with Intellipoint 8.2 (64bit) in Windows 10 without problems, allocating "Enter" to the left side button, and (via a macro) the Escape  key (using "Insert Special...")

That's the combo I've used ever since the Intellimouse became available about 15 years back, but in 2016 I've changed the macro to deal with a Solidwords "enhancement" which was causing me lost productivity:

Chaining two methods of dismissing or accepting a change:

If anyone else is feeling thwarted by recent changes to the Solidworks user interface to do with accepting or rejecting changes (particularly to sketches), I’ve just come up with a fix which might work for some others.

I use a mouse (a legacy Intellimouse) with one side button on each side. I have always used Intellipoint (and its predecessor) to program the thumb (left, in my case) button for “Enter” and the right button for “Escape”. (I find this combo useful in virtually all applications, not just SW)

For a while, Microsoft seemed to have thwarted the latter shortcut, because “Escape” stopped being assignable to a button using Intellipoint after (I think) abut v4, until I realised it was available as a special keystroke (from a scrolling list) in an Intellipoint macro.

Up until (I think) about 2012, “Enter” worked to accept changes to a sketch (“Escape” may have served to reject them – I’m not sure, and it’s not something I routinely do)

Briefly there was a specific shortcut to exit a sketch: double click in white space, but I think it only lasted one year (2009, IIRC)

Now we have to either mouse over to the confirmation corner or carry out extra keystrokes to bring it under the mouse. I found this regression in productivity and extra cognitive burden unhelpful.  I’ve known some people to assign a mouse gesture to “Force Regen” as a kludge for “Accept changes and Exit Sketch”, but I would prefer not to add an extra, context specific muscle memory item if it can be avoided.

“Enter” and “Escape” had hitherto worked in a wide variety of yes/no situations, a sort of muscular Dynamic Duo.

So here’s my fix, on the off chance it may help someone else:

Using Intellipoint (probably Logitech’s equivalent would work also) use a suitable mousebutton to invoke a macro which presses Escape, THEN have the same macro invoke whatever keystroke you have assigned to bring the confirmation corner under the cursor. (The default is "D", but after two decades of using that for "Dimension" I'm not about to use it for what effectively becomes a placeholder; I've chosen F2, and I can still use this to bring the breadcrumbs to the cursor if I want; being preceded by "Escape" means it does not work from my right side mouse button macro)

It would pay to make this reallocation of the right side mouse button specific to Solidworks, so that you can simply use “Escape” in other apps.

So far I have not struck a situation where this chaining of commands causes a problem. In some situations, where all you wanted was “Escape”, the confirmation corner comes over to say hi anyway, but it can be dismissed by a left-click anywhere but on it.