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MikeFoster10-Marble
10-Marble
July 28, 2010
Question

Reverse zoom direction of scroll wheel?

  • July 28, 2010
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Anyone know if it's possible to reverse the zoom direction when using the scroll wheel?

In Pro/E rolling the wheel towards you zooms in whereas in every other application I use it zooms out.

I understand PTC's thinking in that by rolling the wheel you're manipulating the object however the de facto standard of every other app assumes you're manipulating the eye point.

Thanks,

Mike Foster
ATK

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    ssywak1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    July 24, 2015

    Wow...five years and no response.

    FWIW, I second Mike's request (new user here).  Inventor allows you to SELECT which way you want to zoom...just sayin'

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      23-Emerald III
      StephenW23-Emerald III
      23-Emerald III
      July 24, 2015

      There are some solutions in this post.

      Re: How to reverse the mouse wheel zoom

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      ssywak1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      July 24, 2015

      Thank you for the information.

      The AHK looks like the most sensible solution, but my company prohibits me from downloading and installing the AHK code.  The others either look too kludgy, and/or imply that they, too, need me to install something.

      I just need a simple switch I can set in the CREO setup!

      I take it that PTC doesn’t frequent the communities here, and/or they just don’t care about this feature (or lack thereof)?

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      cribsz13-Aquamarine
      13-Aquamarine
      August 3, 2015

      In Creo 3.0 there is a config.pro option

      USE_INVERTED_MOUSEWHEEL_ZOOM yes

      hth

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        LM_106353121-Visitor
        1-Visitor
        April 3, 2023

        Since this is the first post I happened upon in the search for a resolution to the "Inverted Mousewheel Zoom" question,

        I thought a redirect to the correct (more recent) Creo Support Article might be helpful:

         

        https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS133100

         

        • Starting in Creo Parametric 3.0
          • Set config.pro option use_inverted_mousewheel_zoom to yes
        • Not part of the functionality of Pro/ENGINEER, Creo Elements/Pro 5.0 and Creo Parametric 1.0 - 2.0
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          pmalone1-Visitor
          1-Visitor
          September 30, 2016

          Has anyone tried this?

          http://jjanstad.tumblr.com/post/51468803394/invert-scroll-in-ptc-creo

          or this?

          Joakim Joe Janstad — AutoHotKey Mouse fixes for Inventor, Catia and...

          Just wanting to know if it works...

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            OK_109829581-Visitor
            1-Visitor
            March 7, 2024

            This is how you invert your mouse scroll wheel watch video.

             

            If that doesn't work

             

            right click the the window on configuration editor click add

            click find

            type wheel 

            click last option (use_inverted_mousewheel...)

            click add/change

            then scroll down in the window until you find use_inverted_mousewheel...

            select yes for the value

            click ok

             

            Patriot_1776
            Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
            22-Sapphire II
            March 7, 2024

            Ah, so you're a Solidworks guy....  🙂

             

            Me, I want to be able to reverse the zoom on everything else.  To me, it's FAR more natural the way Creo does it.  I mean, if you physically pull a book, or a map, or an object towards you (like the mouse wheel), it gets visually bigger, right?  I HATE Google maps in particular for that, but thankfully, since I use AutoCAD for checking, I was able to fix that like Creo.

             

            It's an easy setting for your config.pro file, I saw it below.

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            JF_133417581-Visitor
            1-Visitor
            April 23, 2025

            I had gpt write an AHK script and it looks like it's working. It checks if the mouse is over the viewport (well specifically if it's not over the not-viewport section of the window) and then reverses the scroll directions. This is for creo elements/direct modeling. It also doesn't interfere with anything that is not specifically the creo viewport. I've attached the .ahk to a .txt since .ahks are not supported on the thread. Just change the extension to .ahk

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