Spaceball
Spaceball
(OP)
I am a new Solidworks user having spent the last 7 years in CATIA land. I'm having a hard time getting used to the way SWx rotates/zooms and pans with the mouse, has anybody used a spaceball with SWx? (I prefer to use the mouse over the icons..)






RE: Spaceball
I use the 3dconnexion Spaceball 5000. www.3dconnexion.com
I like it real well, but since I also use my middle mouse button to rotate with more now, I like it better then my spaceball. I do like the spaceball for zooming in/out better then the mouse.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Spaceball
RE: Spaceball
If you search for "SpaceBall" on ebay - you'll find plenty of used older models & there are still drivers available for them. But if you can get the boss to spring for it - I think there's a 5000 model now. (Apparently they're 2996 years ahead of the rest of us.) Also there's plenty of discussion here about the SpaceBall. Try the search function...
RE: Spaceball
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
http://www.3dvisiontech.com
http://www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Spaceball
I use it not only for rotating, zooming etc., which works great, I also use shortcut buttons on it, instead of using icons/extra mouse moves, keyboard. I highly recommend it!!!
Up to 30% increase of productivity!