Feature Request: Custom pan, zoom, orbit controls

[schulzch]

Luban uses mouse bindings which are pretty much unknown to me. This is an issue when switching applications. There are a couple of other mouse models and it would be really to have a setting for this. I've build a non-exhaustive list of mouse models for reference:

Luban v3.12.3

Pan: right mouse button Zoom: mouse wheel Rotate: left mouse button

Prusa Slicer v2.3:

Almost the same, except that the middle mouse button pans as well.

Pan: right mouse button or middle mouse button Zoom: mouse wheel Rotate: left mouse button

Tinkercad (also used by Chitubox and configurable in Fusion 360):

Left and right are swapped (this is what drives me crazy).

Pan: left mouse or middle mouse Zoom: mouse wheel Rotate: right mouse

Fusion 360

Has support for several models. See Fusion 360 preferences.

FreeCAD

Has support for several models. See FreeCAD mouse models.

Blender

Freely configurable. See 3D View navigation.

[edward-crouch]

It would also be really useful if Luban supported 3DConnexion devices like my Spacemouse Pro. I can make Luban zoom in and out from the spacemouse, and I've tried to map the other axes but no joy. I would imagine if there is an API covering this, it would "just" (HA! just......) be a job of making the function calls?

Ed.

[schulzch]

It would also be really useful if Luban supported 3DConnexion devices like my Spacemouse Pro. I can make Luban zoom in and out from the spacemouse, and I've tried to map the other axes but no joy. I would imagine if there is an API covering this, it would "just" (HA! just......) be a job of making the function calls?

Ed.

Yes, adding support for those is pretty easy - even without their SDK. There seems to be a package for it https://github.com/microdee/hid.spacemouse . I gave mine away a few years ago, though we still have one at the institute I could access for testing.

[kpninja12]

Seems the best option here would be to add some more advanced settings in the Settings menu where the user can custom map controls for each function (pan, orbit, zoom)

[schulzch]

Yes, I think so too. Probably mapping input to the (generic) camera, along with some tweaks to the overall navigation (that negative-scaled matrix when zooming that results in flipping the entire coordinate system is quite annoying).

I was super busy with paper writing until Friday and had planned to look into it next weekend.

[parachvte]

What we did is to align orbit control with popular CAD/CAM software as possible. Though the control is not perfectly implemented, custom mouse bindings are beyond our plans recently.

But...PRs are welcome 😃

[Woodie77]

Hi, has there been any activity for implementing the spacemouse in luban?