Hi Steve - re: gestures in solidworks for view stuff - having the gestures cover a more narrow area like just view changes instead of a full menu would probably help keep them more limited in number and easier to memorize.

MoI itself does actually rely on a gesture, for creating construction lines while drawing you do a "hold and drag" gesture with the mouse rather than the regular click for placing a point.

But the shape of the gesture doesn't matter, it's just the drag action that does it, and my hope is that having just 1 gesture is a lot easier to remember than having many of them.

- Michael