Trying some stuff out with my new Microsoft surface, which is a really cool laptop. I was hoping to use the pen for modeling. It seems like it could work well, but I don’t want to have to press the button on the mouse to click.
Is there a way to set it up so just touching the screen is a left mouse click?
Thanks!
I would imagine that is something you configure in the surface for the pen settings. At least that is what I did for my Huion Kamvas 13 drawing surface.
Haven’t figured out how to do it yet, though!
I guess I’ll try digging into that more.
Thanks!
I have an old Surface Pro 4 with Windows 11.
I see a setting on my PC that says “Let me use my pen as a mouse in some desktop apps”, that might be worth a shot.
I tried confirming with the pen but the battery is dead and an AAAA 
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Hi @perrasjewellery,
I still use an early Surface Book and my pen works like that as it comes - i.e. press on the screen for a left button click - in Rhino and elsewhere. I don’t have the ‘Let me use my pen as a mouse’ option ticked.
On my pen there is also a right click button hidden under a protective strip about 3cm from the tip, but this is pretty stiff and clunky to use (possibly from disuse).
To be honest, I never use the pen in Rhino as my Logitech MX Anywhere mouse does the job much better. The pen comes into its own when drawing annotations on screen captures.
If you need to adjust the sensitivity of the pen, you use the Surface app.
HTH
Jeremy
I would like to use a tap on the screen as the click, I find the little buttons on the mouse kinda hurt my hand really quickly if I am doing a lot of work. I’ll try the Pen as Mouse command mentioned and report back.
Thanks for your replies!
I’ll give this one a shot. I saw it as well, but it didn’t seem like it would be the solution. I’ll try and let ya know!
Thanks for the reply!
AFAIK, that is the way all Surface pens work. If yours doesn’t then it sounds like it’s faulty - I’d get back to the vendor. I’m assuming it’s a genuine Microsoft pen: cheap knock offs are notoriously unreliable.
Pen works fine in every program, it’s just that I have to use the little button to activate the click, I find that makes it kinda of awkward. If I just touch the screen with the pen it acts as a screen manipulation tool for rotating and moving around and such. Would be better if reversed.
But I think I must have had it ticked before: while menu picks etc in Rhino work without it, clicking on the viewport canvas now only works very intermittently. With it ticked clicking on the viewport canvas by pressing the tip onto the screen works every time. Sorry for the misleading post.
