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How do I make a mouse work properly with ipad app?

dylan_blanset
dylan_blanset Member Posts: 4 EDU
in Community Support
Using iPad Air 5th gen, with a logitech B100 mouse plugged in (via usb a-c adapter). While in the onshape app, the scroll wheel does nothing. Left click and drag rotates, so it's not possible to drag a selection box. No combination of clicks and modifying keys seem to pan.

However, if I run onshape in chrome (despite getting the warning that mobile browsers are not supported), the mouse works mostly as expected. It just sometimes freezes up chrome entirely when I try to pan with it.

Yes, I have verified that the mouse works properly in other apps.

The onshape app seems more stable with much faster performance (and almost all the help I can find just tells people that mobile browsers are not supported), so I'd like to have my students use the app. So how do I get a mouse to work properly on the ipad app?

Answers

  • steve_shubin
    steve_shubin Member Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2023
    @dylan_blanset

    You were correct in saying that WHEN USING A MOBILE DEVICE, that Onshape’s mobile app is faster than trying to use Onshape through a browser.

    Onshape mobile works great on my iPhone 8+. And if your students are using mobile devices, then they should be using the mobile app also

    Doing a selection box, zooming, panning, rotating. All these things are easy to do WITHOUT a mouse on the mobile app

    I’m curious. Are you going to want all your students to use a mouse with their iPad ?

    Or are you asking about the use of a mouse for yourself ?

  • dylan_blanset
    dylan_blanset Member Posts: 4 EDU
    steve_shubin I know there are touchpad gestures for those things. I am asking if there is a way to make a mouse work on the ipad onshape app the same way it does in onshape on a browser on the ipad. 

    Your questions don't address this issue. 
  • steve_shubin
    steve_shubin Member Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2023
    @dylan_blanset said:
    The onshape app SEEMS more stable with much faster performance

    Sorry for not addressing your main question in my post above. 

    But since you used the word SEEMS, it made me think that you’re not fully sure about it. So I thought I’d just take a little time to confirm a secondary part of your post, that Onshape mobile is certainly faster when compared to Onshape in the browser, with regards to mobile devices.

    Now as to that main question. Well I haven’t heard of any great success where people are using a mouse with mobile. Maybe there are some that just haven’t touted such

    But everything I’ve read or at least that I can remember reading about Onshape mobile, was that it was built EXCLUSIVELY around FINGERS ON A TOUCHSCREEN such as the iPad, iPhone, or Android phone, to the point where even the Apple Stylus was not giving the results that some wanted — again, if I remember correctly

    Experiment and research it. And then every now and then come back and give it another try. But my guess would be, that fingers are going be the thing with mobile, at least for a while to come


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