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Human interface: Using MBUTTONPAN, ZOOMWHEEL, and ZOOMFACTOR

Human interface: Using MBUTTONPAN, ZOOMWHEEL, and ZOOMFACTOR - AutoCAD Tutorial

From the course: AutoCAD: Tips & Tricks

Human interface: Using MBUTTONPAN, ZOOMWHEEL, and ZOOMFACTOR

- [Instructor] Welcome to another tip and trick for AutoCAD. We're going to be looking at the mouse wheel and some of the fantastic variables that you can set with your mouse wheel when you're navigating in your AutoCAD. Now just bear in mind, we are using AutoCAD 2020 for this particular tip and trick. So these particular variables could be slightly different in older versions of AutoCAD. Saying that, we have a drawing that you can use for this particular tip and trick as well. It's called ResidentialHouse.dwg, and you can download it from the library, as usual, so that you can follow along with the video. So we're going to look at three variables that control the mouse wheel. We're going to look at MBUTTONPAN, ZOOMWHEEL, and ZOOMFACTOR. So let's look at MBUTTONPAN first. Now the trick is to have your dynamic input on, and you just type in the variable name. So if I type MBUTTONPAN, you'll see it come up on the suggestion menu like that. Just press Enter, and there it is there. So…

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