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Mouse recommendation for Allegro use

gbejby

Hello everyone,

I apologize if this is not the right forum to use for this post.

I was wondering if anyone can suggest a specific mouse manufacturer/brand that is best for using with Allegro. I use Allegro 70+ hours a week and I am looking for a type of mouse that helps relief the stress off of my wrist and thumb. My hands are large which puts a lot of stress and strain on my hand and fingers when the mouse size is not proportional.

I tried so many mice but no luck. I also searched online for the best PC mice for CAD engineers and that did not lead anywhere.

So any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

gbej

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  • I am not sure if it will help. But if you look into assigning funckeys and aliases, that could reduce up to 90% of your mouse movement. However, it does come with a price to your left hand and constant looking at keyboard for hotkeys with double modifiers. So I have been using a gaming keypad (Razer Tartarus now, and Razer Chroma Orbweaver in the past). It contains 20 keys and looks like a numpad, but very ergonomic and can be shaped to your needs. It can hold up-to 160 hotkeys in those 20 buttons. I currently assigned about 50 hotkeys to frequently used commands, macros and scripts and I keep adding more whenever I find that, it takes a lot of clicks and mouse movement to do something very simple. One example is spinning a single via around another via. It is so cumbersome in APD and if you do this so many times a day, this activity alone causes so much mouse movement. I assigned the entire lot to a small funckey like shown below. When I do a Spin on a staggered via couple and I need to snap to the center of the via first:

    funckey s "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select @:@Spin; prepopup; pop dyn_option_select '@:@Change user pick'; prepopup; pop dyn_option_select 'Snap pick to@:@Via'"

    This reduces my mouse movement a lot and also improves my efficiency quite a bit. Notice that I just assigned one letter to the entire set of actions. And I intend to make it 90% hotkey based and use mouse movement only for actual routing movement.

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  • I am not sure if it will help. But if you look into assigning funckeys and aliases, that could reduce up to 90% of your mouse movement. However, it does come with a price to your left hand and constant looking at keyboard for hotkeys with double modifiers. So I have been using a gaming keypad (Razer Tartarus now, and Razer Chroma Orbweaver in the past). It contains 20 keys and looks like a numpad, but very ergonomic and can be shaped to your needs. It can hold up-to 160 hotkeys in those 20 buttons. I currently assigned about 50 hotkeys to frequently used commands, macros and scripts and I keep adding more whenever I find that, it takes a lot of clicks and mouse movement to do something very simple. One example is spinning a single via around another via. It is so cumbersome in APD and if you do this so many times a day, this activity alone causes so much mouse movement. I assigned the entire lot to a small funckey like shown below. When I do a Spin on a staggered via couple and I need to snap to the center of the via first:

    funckey s "prepopup; pop dyn_option_select @:@Spin; prepopup; pop dyn_option_select '@:@Change user pick'; prepopup; pop dyn_option_select 'Snap pick to@:@Via'"

    This reduces my mouse movement a lot and also improves my efficiency quite a bit. Notice that I just assigned one letter to the entire set of actions. And I intend to make it 90% hotkey based and use mouse movement only for actual routing movement.

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