Anyone figured out a way to zoom with scroll wheel in Illustrator yet?

Edit>Preferences>General>Zoom with mouse wheel

Works like a charm!!

I assume many landed here looking for "thumb scroll zoom" on illustrator on windows. If that is the case, try "edit>preferences>General> tick "force enable pinch-to-zoom on touchpad". that should do the trick

If you're on a Mac with SteerMouse, you can map the scroll buttons to the "cmd +" and "cmd -" keystrokes.  That will zoom in and out at from the cursor location, unless you have an object selected. Then it will scroll with that object as the center.

So here's a method that works for PC users, but Adobe really should just get an option for this.  Usually when there's a functionality problem that seems simple I usually assume Adobe doesn't implement them because 'business reasons', but this just doesn't make sense.

Here's the autohotkey script I made for Illustrator to add 'hand tool' with middle mouse button and effectively switches Alt+Scroll and regular scroll (and these mods only apply when illustrator is the focused window).  You can download the .exe here Illustrator_Scrolling_MMB.exe - Google Drive and run it when you open illustrator (close in system tray), or if you (reasonably) don't trust downloading some dude's random executable, just download autohotkey (https://autohotkey.com/), right-click on desktop and add new Autohotkey script, right-click and click 'Edit Script' and paste this code into the script.  Save it and run the script when you open illustrator.  You can close the program in your system tray.  If there are any issues let me know.

#SingleInstance ignore
#IfWinActive ahk_exe Illustrator.exe
{
;Switches Alt+Wheelup with Wheelup
Wheelup::
send !{Wheelup}
return
;Switches Alt+Wheeldown with Wheeldown
Wheeldown::
send !{Wheeldown}
return
;Middle Mouse Button activates hand tool dragging.
MButton::
Send, {Space down}{LButton down}
KeyWait, MButton
Send, {LButton up}{Space up}
Return
}

Why in the name of God would Adobe remove the ability to zoom by simply using the scroll wheel without having to press a key?! It is bad enough that in both photoshop and illustrator boot up initially without the ability to zoom using the scroll wheel alone and I have to hunt the internet in order to find out how to do it. Now they have taken that ability completely away in Illustrator.

Just about every paint/graphics program I have ever used in the last 25 years uses the darn scroll wheel to zoom!!!!!

I know Adobe has worked extremely hard to make their programs of the highest professional calibre. Yet they also seem to work extremely hard to make their programs the most confusing and cumbersome to use! I just don't get it!

I find this deeply frustrating. I often create graphics in AI to use in PowerPoint presentations. I have to remind myself to Alt-Scroll in AI and Ctrl-Scroll when I switch to PowerPoint. AAAAAARRRGGGH.

One neat workaround I just configured: bought a Logitech MX Ergo mouse, and I can tell the Logitech Options app to assign in AI the Page Forward mouse key to Alt. Then I can assign in PowerPoint the same button to Ctrl. Same gesture --> same action.

NOTE: using Logitech Options to assign "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" to buttons won't work, because that actually maps to scroll left/right -- BECAUSE EVERY OTHER PROGRAM IN THE UNIVERSE SCROLLS IN/OUT with CTRL!

Not sure why this isn't a basic option in Preferences. Going up and down on an artboard is useless to me. I don't use Illustrator for word processing, which is the only reason I can imagine where scrolling up and down is useful. Illustrator is graphics software, so zooming in and out with the scroll wheel makes way more sense. I use Inkscape at home, which does allow zooming with the scroll wheel.

Hi, using a Mac with a recently upgraded GPU. In Preferences>GPU Performance, checked it on, and then checked Animated Zoom. Option+Scroll Wheel works perfectly for zoom in this configuration. I don't have access to my Windows installation right now, but perhaps that preference exists on that platform as well? If so, you'd then Alt+Scroll

What platform are you on?

Does  Alt/option D & scroll wheel work for you?