MacBook Friendliness
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:20 am
Quite a lot of Mac laptop users out there.
I'm one. Below average at many things but probably not in using my computer. Nonetheless it's taken me 3 years of S3d usage to figure out that I can PAN in the model viewport by holding down CONTROL, performing a mechanical click and dragging. Until now I actually thought it was impossible and for 3 years have struggled to examine support material by merely rotating - and sometimes moving the model on the bed and re-slicing to get another angle.
Three suggestions:
1) Make it easier for Mac Laptop users to discover this feature (I only find out after 3 years because one day the model drifted sideways so knew it must be possible; then scoured the forums for mention of the required technique).
2) These days Mac Laptop users have steered away from mechanical clicks on the trackpad - it's all touches and caresses. So it's not intuitive (or pleasant) to have to work like that. Would highly recommend:
a) two finger drag = PAN; (as per Fusion360)( => naturally zoom, currently and bizarrely two finger drag, then becomes the classic pinch)
b) hold shift and two finger drag = rotate (also Fusion360)
There are a few Mac desktop users with mice and don't know what the deal is there but think increasingly they have touchpads....
I'm one. Below average at many things but probably not in using my computer. Nonetheless it's taken me 3 years of S3d usage to figure out that I can PAN in the model viewport by holding down CONTROL, performing a mechanical click and dragging. Until now I actually thought it was impossible and for 3 years have struggled to examine support material by merely rotating - and sometimes moving the model on the bed and re-slicing to get another angle.
Three suggestions:
1) Make it easier for Mac Laptop users to discover this feature (I only find out after 3 years because one day the model drifted sideways so knew it must be possible; then scoured the forums for mention of the required technique).
2) These days Mac Laptop users have steered away from mechanical clicks on the trackpad - it's all touches and caresses. So it's not intuitive (or pleasant) to have to work like that. Would highly recommend:
a) two finger drag = PAN; (as per Fusion360)( => naturally zoom, currently and bizarrely two finger drag, then becomes the classic pinch)
b) hold shift and two finger drag = rotate (also Fusion360)
There are a few Mac desktop users with mice and don't know what the deal is there but think increasingly they have touchpads....