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ptc-51067401-Visitor
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December 26, 2013
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Mouse 4/5

  • December 26, 2013
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I recently aqquired a mouse with side buttons at work, and I was wondering if there's a way to make them switch pages in a set of drawings (much like the default web page use of back/forward).


I can't install any software without extensive IT involvement, so a Pro/E setting change would work best. We're (still) on WF4.


Thanks.


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dgallup1-Visitor
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December 31, 2013

If you have a mouse driver, it may have the ability to program the buttons by application. I use an Evoluent mouse and it's mouse driver will let me assign 38 functions to each of 6 buttons per application. Twelve of those functions are F1 through F12.


I have not tried it but it should be possible to make a Pro/E mapkey to assign one function key to page forward and another to page back, then assign the mouse to call those function keys in Pro/E.



In Reply to Aaron Winslow:



I recently aqquired a mouse with side buttons at work, and I was wondering if there's a way to make them switch pages in a set of drawings (much like the default web page use of back/forward).


I can't install any software without extensive IT involvement, so a Pro/E setting change would work best. We're (still) on WF4.


Thanks.







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JonathanHodgson13-Aquamarine
13-Aquamarine
January 2, 2014
It is (or at least was - WF4) certainly possible to create mapkeys for 'next sheet' and 'previous sheet'.

Jonathan

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ptc-51067401-VisitorAuthor
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January 3, 2014

Is there a way to make the mapkey not pull up the dialog box for "Go to sheet..."?



When I do it that way, it interrupts my other mapkeys...



Thanks.



Here's a sample of my current mapkey:


mapkey $F11 @MAPKEY_NAMEGoes back one page in 2D.;@MAPKEY_LABELBack;\

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StephenW23-Emerald III
23-Emerald III
January 3, 2014
My next sheet / previous sheet mapkeys us the old MENU MANAGER so it doesn't use the go to sheet option.

mapkey > @MAPKEY_LABELNext Sht;\
mapkey(continued) @MAPKEY_NAMEGo to the next drawing sheet (d);%~done; #Sheets; #Next;

mapkey < @MAPKEY_LABELPrev Sht;\
mapkey(continued) @MAPKEY_NAMEGo to the previous drawing sheet (d);%~done; %~done; #Sheets;\
mapkey(continued) #Previous;

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