Using A 3D Mouse from 3Dconnexion
The COMSOL Desktop on Windows supports the use of a 3D space mouse (SpaceMouse®) from 3Dconnexion® for mouse navigation.
To enable the 3D mouse support, select the 3Dconnexision space mouse check box under Mouse on the Graphics and Plot Windows page in the Preferences dialog box.
If you want to change the setting of the SpaceMouse or customize the buttons, click Open 3DConnexion Properties in the tray icon of your space mouse. If you are a new user of a SpaceMouse, first run the SpaceMouse Training of the startup driver panel of your Space Mouse. You can then learn how to control your objects with the SpaceMouse.
In the settings for the SpaceMouse, you can specify the following personalized preferences:
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Speed: adapt the moving and rotating speed of the objects.
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Advanced Settings: In the Advanced Setting, you can control the speed of each degree of freedom, respectively. You can also disable the corresponding degree of freedom.
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Buttons: COMSOL Multiphysics has exposed a number of Actions/Commands; see, for example, commands in the Views section of the buttons settings page.
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Radial Menu: They can be useful in your Buttons section; you can bind your commands as you want.
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In the Buttons section, you can also bind a keyboard combination to trigger COMSOL actions; for example, Ctrl+O, which will trigger COMSOL Multiphysics to open a file.
Panning and Zooming in 1D Graph Plots
For 1D graph plots, you can use the following mouse movements to pan and zoom (in addition to the zoom buttons; see Zooming In and Out in the Graphics Window):
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To pan in the x and y directions, right-click in the Graphics window and drag the mouse in the direction for the pan. Right-click to the left of the y-axis (outside the plot area) to pan in the y-direction only. Likewise, if the plot includes a secondary y-axis to the right, right-click to the right of the secondary y-axis (outside the plot area) to pan in the y-direction only for the quantity represented by the secondary y-axis. Right-click below the x-axis (outside the plot area) to pan in the x-direction only.
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To zoom in the x and y directions, middle-click in the Graphics window and drag the mouse to zoom in or out. Middle-click to the left of the y-axis (outside the plot area) to zoom in the y-direction only. Likewise, if the plot includes a secondary y-axis to the right, middle-click to the right of the secondary y-axis (outside the plot area) to zoom in the y-direction only for the quantity represented by the secondary y-axis. Middle-click below the x-axis (outside the plot area) to zoom in the x-direction only.