[E60orBust]

Originally Posted by verysideways

The face vent in the middle of the dashboard has always been a variable hot/cold in BMW's, usually with it's own temperature wheel next to the open/close vent wheel.

This is so you can (for example) have cold air blowing on your face even in winter when the climate control is blowing warm air all around the cabin.

In this new X3, the central face vent temperature control is buried in the idrive menu system, rather than just being a dial on the dash.

Like this:

^ What he said. On the G01, you hit the "menu" button on the left side of the climate controls, which kicks the iDrive into "climate menu" and now the previously physical dial between the two middle vents is now a digital dial on the iDrive.

[TxHornX3M40iGuy]

I just pinch/push out to zoom on mine. But can someone tell me how to change the actual direction it's showing me travel? I get that the arrow is always pointing NW/SE etc. But i'd prefer it if I was always traveling "up" on the map, regardless of the direction I was going. It's annoying to be going forward buy my arrow is going down. haha.

[Ragnarkov]

Originally Posted by TxHornX3M40iGuy

I just pinch/push out to zoom on mine. But can someone tell me how to change the actual direction it's showing me travel? I get that the arrow is always pointing NW/SE etc. But i'd prefer it if I was always traveling "up" on the map, regardless of the direction I was going. It's annoying to be going forward buy my arrow is going down. haha.

- have your actual map showing on the screen.

- hit sideways on the idrive controller.

- go down to the map view option.

- choose "direction of travel", or better yet, perspective.

you can also change the autozooming feature here (I hate it).

[regomellor]

Does anybody know if it's possible to code to change de zoom action?
I mean make the knob to zoom in when scrolling clockwise and viceversa.
I can't get used to the way it is, opposite.
Thanks

[MechX3M40i]

Originally Posted by regomellor

Does anybody know if it's possible to code to change de zoom action?
I mean make the knob to zoom in when scrolling clockwise and viceversa.
I can't get used to the way it is, opposite.
Thanks

Have you consider alternative methods?

1) Use the 2-finger pinch-in and pinch-out motion on the iDrive wheel surface, the same way you do on a smart phone or tablet touch screen?
2) If you have auto zoom on, then voice command to change zoom level by saying something like "200 meter"?

These two methods are more intuitive and involve zero coding. Good luck.

[regomellor]

Originally Posted by MechX3M40i

Have you consider alternative methods?

1) Use the 2-finger pinch-in and pinch-out motion on the iDrive wheel surface, the same way you do on a smart phone or tablet touch screen?
2) If you have auto zoom on, then voice command to change zoom level by saying something like "200 meter"?

These two methods are more intuitive and involve zero coding. Good luck.

Thanks for the info. I'll try the pinch method. I still would like the knob to work the other way round

[regomellor]

Pinching doesn't work in my knob. Is it normal? My car is a 2014 640i gc

[Spoonhead]

Originally Posted by regomellor

Pinching doesn't work on my knob. Is it normal? My car is a 2014 640i gc

[JamieA]

Thank you for this post, I thought I was going crazy - after driving BMWs for 14 years I thought why can't I remember which way to turn the iDrive knob to zoom the map.

In addition to the other things mentioned by other posters they completely changed the spots for the steering wheel buttons - esp cruise control vs the sports wheels on the F10 - is this car is not one to use vis muscle memory of cars past.

The power window switches have also gone to being too far back like on the pre-LCI E90s

Here endeth the ergonomic rant

[MechX3M40i]

Originally Posted by regomellor

Pinching doesn't work in my knob. Is it normal? My car is a 2014 640i gc

Depending on if you have the correct iDrive wheel with touch-sensitive surface, and if your iDrive software supports the same motion control of the map scale.

You can also post this same question in the BMW 6-series forum and members there should be more knowledgeable about your car. Good luck!