Greetings fellow Blender artists! Im new here, and will maybe show off my work on this site later!
I have Blender on my Toshiba Laptop. I have Windows 7. I hope thats enough information.
Im having trouble navigating around the object I am trying to make! On my desktop I also have Blender, and im able to navigate better because my Mouse has a middle mouse button.
On the Toshiba Laptop, Im using a touchpad. But obviously a touchpad doesnt have a middle mouse button.
Ive been relying on fly navigation but even that doesnt get me where I want really.
You really canāt use Blender with the touchpad. Nor any other 3D modeling application for that matter.
I know nobody who uses the touchpad as an exclusive form of input on their laptop.
You can re-do all the MMB keybinds in the User Preferences > Input window. Itās pretty difficult to do, and will result in a loss of flexibility. But itās an option if youāre staunchly opposed to using a mouse.
Iād start of using the Emulate 3-button mouse in the input panel of the User Preferences.
This will allow you to hold down the alt button to āmake upā for the lost motion. I know it works on a mac at least.
However, the pad is never a good substitute for the liberty of using a mouse. In pretty much and program. The speed you gain from using a mouse can not be compared with just using the pad. However it can stil be done.
I use my touchpad on my laptop all the time. Just enable āEmulate 3-Button Mouseā in the preferences. Add alt+ whatever mouse movement and key you hit (example, to pan the image, alt+shift+move mouse instead of shift+MMB). Iām very used to it, itās not a big deal.
