Dell 5 button mouse

[Al Hart]

I have a client who claims the Dell 5 button mouse does not work properly with SketchUp.

Has anyone had any success using a 5 button mouse?

@unknownuser said:

Before loading the software for the mouse. The mouse functions just as a normal mouse. Right, left & wheel buttons all work. The tilt and side zoom buttons do not function.

After loading the software, it kills my zoom functions in AutoCAD and SketchUp. No matter what options i select, I cannot get the zoom to work in either AutoCAD or SketchUp.

[dylan]

Al I do not have the Dell mouse, but I do have a mouse which I have setup with 8 SU functions.
My mouse has 5 buttons and 2 wheels.

The software with the mouse allows you to set it up with any program to fully customize the buttons to whichever function you require.

It is a very nice mouse and so comfortable with a smooth operation.

Logitech MX Revolution

[Al Hart]

Does it had the mouse wheel which lets you slide it left and right?

And if you do so, I presume that SketchUp pans the screen?

[gata]

You can assign keyboard stroke shortcut functions to the left and right scroll by program. So there's a total of four assignable functions to the wheel. It's a very nice mouse. I love the adjustability of the scroll wheel. The scroll defaults as Zoom and the little button below the wheel defaults as Orbit. With the SetPoint plugin called uberOption, the thumb wheel can be given three functions. The last know address as of yesterday was http://www.mstarmetro.net/~rlowens/uberOptions/ . But it was not working this evening.

[dylan]

gata, just to let you know the Setpoint software I have allows me to program the thumb wheel to 3 different functions without the additional software.

[gata]

Good to know. The developer had that claim on his webpage. Sounds like he needs an update. Another uberOptions returns the scroll setting of 1, 2, 3, 6 lines, or something like that. SetPoint left that out. And he added a few additional little things for many other mice and keyboards.

If anyone adds uberOptions, you will have to reset all custom settings. I knew about this plugin before I got the mouse so there was no big annoyance. When installing, you get the option to save your original SetPoint settings. But they definitely are not carried over after adding the plugin.