topic zooming with mouse wheel in Installation & update

zooming with mouse wheel

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:32:04 GMT

On occasion, I loose the ability to zoom with the scroll wheel on my mouse (and other mice I have tried).

This started happening in ArchiCAD 9 and now is happening in ArchiCAD 11. It usually lasts for several hours, and is particularly bad with a certain file.

Any suggestions are very much appreciated.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Dwight — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:41:53 GMT

Hello and welcome. It is protocol on this forum that when asking questions one should list the hardware and software configuration where the problem occurs. Use your "signature" to do this.

Aside from a squashed bug in your mouse causing it to generate a "B" when it should say "T":

Is this trouble file a large one? If so, and there are many elements in the view, turn down the plan rendering detail. See attached.

You also want to review all of your rendering detail in OpenGL including how much of the 3D window it should render.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Tim Potts — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:52:51 GMT

I have recently encountered the same problem. This is happening to me even on small models. It seems to have occurred after the most recent update and it happens on my G5 OS 10.4 and my G4 laptop. The zooming feature works fine in all other apps, and quitting ArchiCad and relaunching doesn't help. usually if I restart my computers the mouse works for a while and then stops zooming again. Most frustrating.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:59:18 GMT

Yes, it is frustrating.

My modeling detail settings were already set to simplified. I don't actually understand Dwight's comment about the mouse having a squashed bug and the "B" and "T".

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Dwight — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:04:55 GMT

In addition to offering real advice, I sometimes veer off into movie references like where the fly falls into the printer in the movie "Brazil" unleashing a stream of errors when the squashed bug causes a typo.

Everybody would know that.

I made this obscure connection because there once was time when mouses [not "mice." "Mice" means multiple rodents] were mechanical and stuff could get in there and cause malfunction.

That is what i get for being old.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:35:27 GMT

I'm still having problems with this in multiple files -anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jill

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Stress Co_ — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:29:14 GMT

Jill wrote:
any suggestions?

Take the mouse apart and clean the lint/dust around the wheel.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Chazz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:41:38 GMT

Dwight wrote:
I sometimes veer off into movie references like where the fly falls into the printer in the movie "Brazil" unleashing a stream of errors when the squashed bug causes a typo.

Most revealing of all is that it is not your first reference to the film

My zoom wheel stopped working yesterday too. To think that we worked that way all the time in AC 7. I shudder to think. A quit/relaunch solved it for moi.

One feature that GS did away with when they introduced the scroll wheel zooming is the "return to last view" which I miss terribly.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Dwight — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:01:53 GMT

Chazz: Hojegoinbai?

So, even though i take refuge in the fantasy life of movies where things often work out well and sometimes not, as in Brazil, I am hot on my shortcuts and you simply need to look for "Previous Zoom" and "Next Zoom" to program a keyboard shortcut accordingly.

With a five button programmable mouse, the side outriggers are the likely candidates for these functions.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:04:37 GMT

Jill wrote:
On occasion, I loose the ability to zoom with the scroll wheel on my mouse (and other mice I have tried).

Does anything change if you temporarily disconnect and reconnect the mouse?

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Thomas Holm — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:11:58 GMT

Chazz wrote:
One feature that GS did away with when they introduced the scroll wheel zooming is the "return to last view" which I miss terribly.

They did no such thing. It's here:

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:24:14 GMT

Ralph wrote:
Jill wrote:
On occasion, I loose the ability to zoom with the scroll wheel on my mouse (and other mice I have tried).
Does anything change if you temporarily disconnect and reconnect the mouse?

No, unfortunately, but thanks.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Chazz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:02:08 GMT

Dwight wrote:
you simply need to look for "Previous Zoom" and "Next Zoom" to program a keyboard shortcut accordingly....

Thomas wrote:
They did no such thing. It's here:

Let me rephrase that.....

They moved it from where it was and I never bothered to go and look for it because I am, at my rotten core a lazy and slovenly sod.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:09:48 GMT

So, we are having a similar problem in our office, except that the mouse NEVER scrolls. It scrolled on only one computer, an older iMac, which we just replaced. That current user is quite dismayed at not being able to use the scroll button to zoom. Panning works just fine using the scroll button on the mighty mouse, but no zoom. Is there a hidden setting somewhere that controls this? I have the mouse settings set to 'button 3' and 'scrolling 360'.

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:47:03 GMT

closing out of archicad and reopening the file has been working for me

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

JaredBanks — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:04:48 GMT

We also have this problem. But it seems to be isolated to specific files. One coworker has her mouse zoom die on her multiple times a day. Invariably, when I open her file on my machine my mouse zoom also freezes after a while. Which doesn't happen with any of my files.

My guess is that it is caused by a screwy library part. Probably a window or door with a missing fill or something to that effect. I'd definitely wager money though that it's a problem door or window.

Seems like a great way to frustrate new users!

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:46:56 GMT

For those who might be interested.
No trouble here with squeaky/sticky or bad behavior mice here in
the wonderful world of PC AC 12 🙂
So far, what a dream version, (at least on my PC).
And my PC is not even that fast and no duel core (yet).
Way faster than 11.
Thanks G.S.
Bier

Re: zooming with mouse wheel

Gerald Hoffman — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:50:13 GMT

I realize this is not directly related except it is also a mouse issue but I have noticed that the pan function which I can access when I push my scroll button down and then move my ball ceases to function if there are other programs open with their windows maximized. If I minimize them except for AC it works just fine.

I only mention this for those who may have noticed this annoying behavior and not figured it out yet. I use a Logitech Trackman Wheel which is very fast once you get used to it and you never run out of desk space.

Cheers,