Rotate Ship in Design?

When I go into the design screen to build a custom ship, how do I rotate the ship around to see it from different angles?

I can move it around and zoom in and out but not rotate. Is that a limitation of this version?

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Reply #1 Top

can you hold the middle mouse butten  down and turn the ship???

 

Reply #2 Top

There's a number of people who have asked questions about this - at the very least it doesn't seem like it's an intuitive control, and could use improvement.

I suggest right-click-and-drag, or wasd. Both are a little more standard.

 

Reply #3 Top

hold a mouse button and move to turn the ship, it doesn't get much more intuitive than that.

Reply #4 Top

Well, I have a Microsoft wheel mouse, 2 buttons and a wheel with 2 additional buttons at the sides.  In order to rotate a ship in the design, I had use the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center program and configure one of the side buttons to be a middle-click.

Then I could press this side button and rotate however I wanted.

OK, my 2c....this is NOT intuitive.


Reply #5 Top

Quoting Bamdorf, reply 4

Well, I have a Microsoft wheel mouse, 2 buttons and a wheel with 2 additional buttons at the sides.  In order to rotate a ship in the design, I had use the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Center program and configure one of the side buttons to be a middle-click.

Then I could press this side button and rotate however I wanted.

OK, my 2c....this is NOT intuitive.



End of Bamdorf's quote

Pressing down on the wheel is a third main mouse button.  Or should be.

Reply #6 Top
Quoting charon2112, reply 5


Pressing down on the wheel is a third main mouse button.  Or should be.

End of charon2112's quote

The default for the pressing down the wheel is "flip".   Makes sense!  It's Microsoft!

[addition]

Oh, and looking at it again I find I can reprogram the mouse wheel push to also be a middle button press, which as you suggest, it what it "should" have been.

 

 

 

 

Reply #7 Top

Well none of the mentioned options work with a laptop mouse/trackpad.

I have tried every combination on my Lenovo X1 laptop and none work.

Hope there is a plan to fix this obvious oversight..