Function

Action

Mouse button

Make a view active in GLview mode

Single click in the view. When multiple views are shown, the caption for the active view is displayed in the default colour for the active window. The other views are displayed in the default colour of the inactive window.

Left

To select an entity

When a command prompts for the selection of an entity, move the cursor over the entity and select the left-hand mouse button.

Left

To select an entity to edit

Double click when the pointer is over an entity. The dialog for the entity will be displayed, allowing you to view and/or edit the entity properties.

Notes

1 .The entity is highlighted momentarily.

2. Double clicking an entity when a command is active will chain all linked entities.

Left

To rotate the model

There are two ways of rotating the model using the mouse:

1. Click the appropriate icon from the Display toolbar, hold down the left-hand mouse button and move it to rotate the model.

2. Simply hold down the right-hand mouse button and move the mouse to rotate the model.

The rotation will occur about the centre of the model.

To rotate the model about a point, position the cursor on the desired spot on the model and select this point as centre of rotation with a right-hand mouse click while holding down the Ctrl key. The selected point is moved to the screen centre. You can then use either method described above to rotate the model about the selected point.

The Zoom Extents command will reset the centre back to the middle of the model.

Left

Right

To spin the model

Click the appropriate icon from the Display toolbar, hold down the left-hand mouse button, move it and release to spin the model.

Left

To stop the model spinning

Single click in the view where the model is spinning.

Left

To select an icon

Click the left-hand mouse button to finish a command.

Left

To move a toolbar

Select the double bar at the left-hand end of a toolbar, and holding down the button move the toolbar.

Left

To resize a toolbar

Select a corner of the Toolbar and move the mouse.

Left

To change the active view's properties

Hold mouse button down over the view caption and select a new view orientation or ‘Properties’ from the list.

Left or Right

To finish a command

Click the right hand mouse button to finish a command.

Right

To finish a command with default for all options

Double click the right hand mouse button to finish a command accepting default options.

Right

To display the shortcut menu

Hold right hand button down in any view and select an option from the list.

Right

To zoom in and out

Move the wheel forward to Zoom In and backward to Zoom Out in the active view, at the centre of the screen.

To zoom relative to the current cursor position, pick a point on the model and move the wheel while holding down the Ctrl key. The cursor position will be moved to the centre of the screen and zooming will occur at that point.

Intellimouse Wheel*

To zoom extents

Double-click the mouse wheel to display the complete model within the active view. (To disable this functionality, create a new PCI Variable !checkMDoubleClick=0 and restart EdgeCAM in GLview).

Intellimouse Wheel

To pan

Hold down the wheel and move the mouse to Pan.

Intellimouse Wheel