FreeCAD: Mouse operation setting

You can also set the mouse mode from the status bar as shown below. If the status bar is not displayed, you can display it by selecting [View]-[Status bar] from the menu.

You can select one of following mouse modes.

1. OpenInventor mode

   Mouse operation mode that is compliant with Open Inventor. Open Inventor is a 3D-Graphic Toolkit.

   Select	Pan	Zoom	Rotate View
   CTRL +

2. CAD mode(default)

   Mouse operation mode that is default mode of FreeCAD.

   Select	Pan	Zoom	Rotate View
   			or

   If you use 2-buttons mouse, you can use a operations mode for 2-buttons mouse.

   Pan	Zoom	Rotate View
   CTRL + click	CTRL + click CTRL + click	CTRL + click CTRL +

3. Revit mode

   Mouse operation mode that is compliant with Autodesk® Revit®. Autodesk® Revit® is a 3D-CAD for building/architecture.

   Select	Pan	Zoom	Rotate View
   			SHIFT +

4. Blender mode

   Mouse operation mode that is compliant with Blender. Blender is the open source 3D-CG software.

   Select	Pan	Zoom	Rotate View
   	SHIFT +

5. Maya gesture mode

   Mouse operation mode that is compliant with Autodesk® Maya®. Autodesk® Maya® is a 3D-CG software.

   Select	Pan	Zoom	Rotate View
   Tap or	Drag with 2 fingers or ALT +	Pinch (drag 2 fingers to close/apart each other) or or ALT + or PageDown/PageUp	Drag with a finger or ALT +

6. Touchpad mode

   Mouse operation mode for the environment that have no 3-button mouse. For example, notebook/laptop etc...

   Select	Pan	Zoom	Rotate View
   	SHIFT +	SHIFT + CTRL +	ALT +

7. Gesture mode

   Mouse operation mode for the touch-screen like tablet etc...

   Select	Pan	Zoom	Rotate View
   Tap or	Drag with 2 fingers or	Pinch (drag 2 fingers to close/apart each other) or or PageDown/PageUp	Drag with a finger or

8. Open Cascade mode

   Mouse operation mode that is compliant with Open Cascade. Open Cascade is a CAD kernel that is used in FreeCAD.

   Select	Pan	Zoom	Rotate View
   	CTRL +	CTRL +	CTRL +

References

• Mouse Model