×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

3 button mouse for big hands!

3 button mouse for big hands!

3 button mouse for big hands!

(OP)
hello,

Can anybody give me the supplier and model of a 3 button mouse that I can use with CATIA V4 and V5 but that is designed for someone with bigger hands?

Most modern mice have scroll buttons etc instead of a normal middle button.

Many thanks,

Niels

RE: 3 button mouse for big hands!

I find that a Scroll Wheel mouse, when combined with a 3-dimensional device such as a SpaceBall make CATIA much more functional than a simple 3-button mouse by itself.  The scroll wheel lets you move the tree up and down rapidly, and the SpaceBall allows you to perform you 3-D manipulation.

RE: 3 button mouse for big hands!

I remember ther were some ergonomic mouse devices that were made for different hand sizes.  My suggestion would be to start your search with the tag "ergonomic mouse", and maybe try to fit the word "CAD" in there.  Because the large mouse would have to be 3 button - although the ergos that I remember actually had 6 buttons... (not sure if they were CAD specific)

-----------------------------------------------------------
Catia Design|Catia Design News|Catia V5 blog

RE: 3 button mouse for big hands!

Here is it :

Contour Mouse

Eric N.
indocti discant et ament meminisse periti

RE: 3 button mouse for big hands!


Yep, that's the one.  Thanks Eric.

Oh,yeah, I forgot to mention that they're pricey... :)

-----------------------------------------------------------
Catia Design|Catia Design News|Catia V5 blog

RE: 3 button mouse for big hands!

Neils,

I use an old Belkin mouse that's pretty big.  3-button and roller ball (that squeaks like a mouse).  Belkin F8E813-BLK-USB. If you can find one, I'm sure they are pretty cheap.

The Contour mouse looks like there should be a size that you'll like.

I'm not as young as CATIAJim, and I've never figured out how to use mice with scroll wheels in the middle. They always seem to make my tree move when I touch the wheel!

RE: 3 button mouse for big hands!

Quote:

I'm not as young as CATIAJim, and I've never figured out how to use mice with scroll wheels in the middle. They always seem to make my tree move when I touch the wheel!

Well, jackk - I'm not as old as Jim, and I absolutely loathe the scroll wheel!  It might be good enough for MicroSoft, but it's a real pain in the royal jelly to use with Catia.  

I'm built for speed, not finesse. 2thumbsup

-----------------------------------------------------------
Catia Design|Catia Design News|Catia V5 blog

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources