Mouse input

The following table includes the mouse functions:

Button	action	remarks
left mouse button	move model	keep left mouse button pressed to move the model in the current x/y plane
left mouse button	select item	mouse click on any node, object, etc. to see its basic information in status line; selection is deactivated if mouse coordinates are shown (see button F3)
right mouse button	rotate model	keep right mouse button pressed to rotate model around current current \(X_1\)/\(X_2\) axes
right mouse button	show item dictionary	(short) press and release on item
mouse wheel	zoom	use mouse wheel to zoom (on touch screens ‘pinch-to-zoom’ might work as well)

Current mouse coordinates can be obtained via SystemContainer.GetCurrentMouseCoordinates().

6D mouse

Graphics engines, especially in CAD and finite elements allow input of special 3D or 6D mouse devices. There is a basic interface for so-called 3D mouse / 6D mouse or space mouse, allowing to map the 6D joystick to translation and rotation, see visualizationSettings.interactive.useJoystickInput and similar options. The interface only works, if the device maps 6 coordinates to the joystick input of GLFW (tested with 3DCONNEXION mouse).