Mouse
Tools > Options > Mouse
The Mouse options control mouse operation for selecting and dragging.
Mouse
Mouse group select
Method
Combo
Drag a rectangle from left to right for window select. Drag a rectangle from right to left for crossing select.
Crossing Box
Always uses a crossing selection unless you use SelWindow command.
Window Box
Always uses a window selection unless you use SelCrossing command.
Force a window/crossing/combo selection any time by pressing Alt and dragging with the left mouse button. This lets you start your window/crossing very near objects that would otherwise be selected by a single pick.
Middle mouse button
Choose what action is performed either by clicking the middle mouse button on a three-button mouse or by pressing the wheel on a wheeled mouse.
Most-recently used commands popup menu
Pops up two-part menu at the cursor location. You can list your favorite commands in the top section. The bottom section is the list of most recent commands used.
Popup this Toolbar
Choose a toolbar to pop up at the cursor location. Create a toolbar containing your favorite commands or object snaps to use as a pop-up toolbar.
How to move your customized popup toolbar between Rhinos
Run this Macro
Lists a series of commands that run when you click the middle mouse button.
Manipulate view
Click and hold to access the default middle button actions: Popup menu, Popup this toolbar, or Run this macro.
Pan (press Alt to rotate; press Ctrl to zoom)
Pans the view.
Alt + middle mouse button rotates the view.
Rotate (press Shift to pan; press Ctrl to zoom)
Rotates the view.
Shift + middle mouse button pans.
Ctrl + middle mouse button zooms.
Swap pan and zoom (press Ctrl to pan; press Shift to zoom)
Swaps the Shift and Ctrl key behavior for middle mouse button.
Shift + middle mouse button zooms the view
Ctrl + middle mouse button pans the view.
To reverse the mouse wheel zoom direction, set the Zoom Scale factor to a value larger than 1 in View Options
Click and drag
Drag selected objects only
Lets you drag just the objects that are already selected. Enabling this option can prevent accidental dragging.
Control point drag threshold ___ pixels
The distance in pixels you must drag control points before the drag initiates. Set to higher values for high-resolution display. This helps prevent accidental dragging.
Object drag threshold ___ pixels
The distance in pixels you must drag objects before the drag initiates. Set to higher values for high-resolution display. This helps prevent accidental dragging.
Right mouse button
Enable click-and-hold context menus
Displays a context menu with right mouse button click, hold and release in a viewport.
Context menu delay ___ milliseconds
Number of milliseconds you must click and hold the right mouse button to display the context menus.
- Set 0 to make a right-click immediately display the context menu and stop repeating the last command.
Selecting
Allow window selection of sub-objects
Allow selecting objects with points on
When disabled, objects with control points on cannot be selected, but they still accept material dropping.
Turn on control points when selecting a curve, light or annotation
Turns on control points automatically. This does not apply to objects in models attached to a worksession.
Make control polygon pickable
Makes control polygons that connect two NURBS or SubD control points selectable.
Double-click a control polygon to select an entire row of NURBS or SubD control points.
Restores the default system values. All custom appearance settings will be lost.
See also
Options
Manage global options.