Blender on the Mac

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What is the best set up for Blender on a Mac? I have a 24" iMac with 256 GRAM / 1GB RAM / Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse / 10.5.2 Leopard.

The problem I am having is that when I use ether the wired mighty mouse or the bluetooth mouse. I set the middle button to Button 3 then I set the right button to button 2. When I run blender the right mouse button still have left button functionality ie it moves the 3d curser.

So I decided to use the standard pc mouse that I have with my pc. I have the same problem with the right button and I can not change the functionality of the middle button away for bring up the Dashbord.

Would love so help on this as it has been drive me nuts.

Thanks

Dan

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Very odd, I’ve never had any problems setting the mouse buttons with the mighty mouse. I however use a usb logitech wireless mouse, which has 10 buttons. I use the steermouse drivers for it and can setup it’s configurations differently for each application. Whats great is I have two buttons on the side dedicated to rotating and panning the viewport, and then I use the scrollwheel to zoom, so I never have to hold any button combos to control the view, it’s wonderful!

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Thanks for the reply QuixoticSmile. I checked out Steermouse, I looks fantastic. i was looking for a way to set up different mouse functions for different apps. Which Logitech mouse do you have as there are quite a few models?

Thanks

Dan

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I must say, like the mighty mouse for blending. The 360 scroll is really nice for navigating around. And the general shape feels nice in the hand. A shame you can’t configure it differently… you should be able to though, somehow…

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Well, besides troubleshooting your mouse software, have you troubleshooted Blender? You have a User Preferences bar at the top, (as shown below)

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd33/skatingecko/UserPrefbar.png

If you click the bottom of it and drag it down enough, you will see User Preferences.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd33/skatingecko/UserPreferences.png

Around this area- change the settings to these (default Blender 2.46 settings)
http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd33/skatingecko/MouseButtonOptionsBlender.png

Hope this helped!

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I have a logitech revolution VX, it’s wonderful, only problem is, I have a really difficult problem now using any other mouse.

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Thanks for all the reply’s. I will have a go at changing the setting in Blender. I looked a the VX mouse, it look’s perfect but the problem is that I am left-handed. I love the fact that it has ten buttons. Maybe I could use it. I am going to get the Steermouse software.

Thanks

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It’s in the mac settings. I just disable dashboard alltogether!