Panning in Simulink has annoying "Inertia" (for lack of a better word)

When I pan in simulink using space+left mouse or middle mouse and I'm still panning or just stopped panning when I let go of the button, panning continues, decelerating to a stop rather than stopping right when I let go of the button. I have to stop panning for around 1 second before letting go of the button to avoid this, which for me is quite annoying. I'd like panning to stop right when I let go of the button. Is there a fix for this?

Answer 1

[nick]

Hi Cyrus,

I understand that you are looking for a way to curtail the panning as soon as you release the button.

To accomplish this, you should release spacebar key before releasing left click when you are simultaneously holding spacebar key and left mouse button. This will immediately stop the panning in simulink.

Hope this helps

[Austin Grossman]

I also have this problem with a very annoying "inertia." However, I use the middle mouse button to pan and cannot use this provided answer. Is there another way to have panning completely stop when the middle mouse button is released?

[Fred]

I have the same issue when navigating Simulink models, it just won't stop when I release the center mouse button but keeps moving in whatever direction I was moving in. Very annoying.

[Nicholas]

To remove inertia, simply tap spacebar everytime you use the scroll wheel to pan (do not release scroll wheel until you release spacebar). Or create a macro to bind scroll wheel release to spacebar. The design is very human.

[Walter Roberson]

@Austin Grossman comments to @nick

While this response is helpful, it is by no means an answer or fix to the question and is simply an annoying work-around. Having to press spacebar in between every pan move is not an acceptable way to pan around large Simulink drawings. This issue is making me consider going to previous versions of Matlab for daily work; this post does not provide closure.