This article explains how to "mimic" the mouse behavior of IGRIP in Visual Components products. For this behavior a three button mouse is required. The buttons are assigned as follows
. Press left mouse button : select component
. Press right mouse button : cruise world
. Press middle mouse button : zoom world
. Press left and right mouse button : pan world
. Press shift + right mouse button : context menu selection
The procedure consists of 4 steps and aims at experienced users of Visual Components products (3DCreate, 3DRealizeR, 3DRealize).
1. Start 3DCreate for the first time, so that the environment file environment.env is generated.
2. Exit 3DCreate.
3. Edit the environment file c:\program files\visual components\3DCreate "version number"\bin\environment.env using Wordpad or Notepad and edit the lines listed below. Save this file and exit the editor. (Note the location of this file can vary in different software versions!)
4. Restart 3DCreate.
Original values
<STRING name="Menu" value="M_SINGLE | M_RIGHT"/>
<STRING name="Orbit" value="S_CTRL | M_LEFT | DOWN"/>
<STRING name="Pan" value="S_ALT | M_LEFT | DOWN"/>
<STRING name="Zoom" value="S_SHIFT | M_LEFT | DOWN"/>
New values
<STRING name="Menu" value="M_SINGLE | S_SHIFT | M_RIGHT"/>
<STRING name="Orbit" value="M_RIGHT | DOWN"/>
<STRING name="Pan" value="M_LEFT | M_RIGHT | DOWN"/>
<STRING name="Zoom" value="M_MIDDLE | DOWN"/>
Notes:
1. The only difference with IGRIP is that Cruise resides under the RMB (and not under LMB)
2. Wheel of a wheel mouse button is not yet supported (e.g. for zooming operations)
3. Do not edit the environment.env file when application is running. It is possible that when closing the application, your changes in the environment file are overwritten.