retrograde Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Been playing around with AD for a bit and feel like the zoom tool should be a toggle and revert back to the tool you were using when you invoked the zoom. i.e.:, I'm painting and want to zoom in, I press "Z", zoom in, then I have to reselect the brush tool from the tool bar to resume painting. Could we have a preference to invoke a toggle on the zoom's behaviour? Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted August 3, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 3, 2014 Interesting suggestion. I always zoom by holding down alt and then use mouse wheel/scroll. It works very quickly and works in any tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrograde Posted August 3, 2014 Author Share Posted August 3, 2014 Thanks TonyB, I do that with the mouse as well and it's great, but the pen and tablet workflow differs. Maybe a preference is the way to go...? Quote http://www.kevincreative.com https://www.behance.net/kevincreative https://dribbble.com/kevincreative https://www.instagram.com/kevincreative/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Andy Somerfield Posted August 3, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 3, 2014 I use the trackpad, personally (well, the separate "Magic Trackpad" thing in the left hand, mouse in the right etc.).. Each to their own.. This has been raised before and I think we can do something to make this a bit better.. watch this space.. AndyS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rui_mac Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I also work with a pen and nothing else (more than 10 years using just pen... no mouse whatsoever, for anything). And the only thing I miss is a pen-wheel. I know that some pens have that. But they are much more expensive. So, if there was a way to zoom in and out that does not require a wheel, that would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeds Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 I'd like to add temporary zoom to the initial suggestion of the toggle state idea. Temporary Zoom recognises the currently selected drawing tool or node/vertex editing that's occurring as happening, and when pressed whilst this is happening the Z key acts as a (whilst held down) 5x (or 10x, or whatever, set by user) zoom straight into the current cursor position with the existing tools remaining live. Releasing the Z key pops back out to the prior zoom, with the current tool still selected. In this manner the user can quickly adjust something at a very fine level and then pop out and continue adjusting at the normal level without a tool or state change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbuchichio Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Doesn't Space+Cmd do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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