Customizing Mouse Gestures

Mouse gestures are easy to customize. You can specify the number of mouse gestures that appear in the mouse gestures guide to 2, 3, 4, 8, or 12.

If you set the number of gestures to 2, you can orient them horizontally or vertically. By default, four gestures display on the mouse gestures guide.

Next, learn how to customize mouse gestures, and set up mouse gestures for parts with eight commands:

  1. Click New (Standard toolbar) and double-click Part.
  2. Click Tools > Customize.
  3. On the Mouse Gestures tab, in the upper-right corner, select Enable mouse gestures.
  4. Under Enable mouse gestures, from the list, select 8 Gestures.
  5. View the eight tools assigned to the mouse gestures for the Part gesture guide in the Mouse Gestures Guide window.
    You can customize the mouse gesture assignments through a visual drag-and-drop user interface. You drag tools from the list of commands in the Customize dialog box to the mouse gestures guide.
    • If you drag a tool to an empty position, the tool is added to the mouse gestures guide.
    • If you drag a tool to an occupied position, the dragged tool replaces the tool on the mouse gestures guide.
    • If you Ctrl + drag a tool from one gesture guide position to another, the tool is copied to the second position.

    You can copy tools within and across mouse gestures guides.