Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Spaceballs (3d mouse)
(OP)
Are you using a 3D mouse/spaceball?
Why?/Why not?
Thanx for the input.
Why?/Why not?
Thanx for the input.
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RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
I am using a Cadman on the left hand and a Marble mouse on the right hand. I believe I've increased my productivity at least 35-40%. After using the one at work for a while I had to buy one for home. I don't think I could live without it now. For the money it was a good investment. The spaceball might have some advantages over the Cadman but for the money it has been a good tool.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Yes, I recommend it even though it is expensive.
jackboot
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Test one out and you will see a benefit right away.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
www.3dvisiontech.com
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
never used a 3D Mouse but this one kicks but.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
--Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
"I see your Schwartz is as big as mine"
I've never been into the spaceball. I had one at Boeing that I never used. I'm left handed. And with CATIA v4 zooming up and down was done witht the arrows....which I could do with my right hand quite comfortably. (and pan was button 3 and rotate was button 2+3). So I really could achieve whatever I needed without the spaceball.
I've just gotten used to it.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
I find myself using it on web pages also, as it it much quicker than the mouse when it comes to scrolling.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
How do you use your Spaceball on a webpage? I have never seen that... please advise.
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
www.3dvisiontech.com
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
check it out!! it is a great tool.
http://www.3dconnexion.com/spacepilot.htm
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
It doesn't work in my by default.
Thanks,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
www.3dvisiontech.com
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
When I get a chance, I will see if there are any updated drivers for the 5000. I'm gonna miss it, but the jumping screen had to go.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Does your model just start rotating for no good reason? I had this happen and tweaked and updated my drivers to no avail. I called 3dConnexions and they emailed me a new firmware update for the 5000. They said some of the first 5000's would rotate part's with no input from the user.
Scorch
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
--Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Thanks for the info! That is exactly the problem I've been experiencing.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Not sure if it will help in your case but, if it's FF go to Tools > Options > Browsing & deselect the Auto scrolling option.
Making the best use of this Forum. FAQ559-716
How to get answers to your SW questions. FAQ559-1091
Helpful SW websites every user should be aware of. FAQ559-520
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
I'm on IE.
Just got off the phone with 3D Connexion and the fix has already been delivered. Thanks again, Scorch!
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Because it's just so darn cool!
And because of all the other stuff too.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
http:
Flores
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
I have a serial spaceball 4000FLX and love it! I've had it for 4 years. I find it much easier to navigate Solidworks than using the mouse and keyboard. I use it for both 3D modeling and 2D detailing. It also works great in Acad, though I wish it would work in IE or Office.
Kevin
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
ewh,
Does your model just start rotating for no good reason? I had this happen and tweaked and updated my drivers to no avail. I called 3dConnexions and they emailed me a new firmware update for the 5000. They said some of the first 5000's would rotate part's with no input from the user.
Scorch
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
If you contract it will pay for itself inside a month or two.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Thanks!
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RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Trying to get hold of an older verion of the software for the 4000 FLX spaceball. 3dconnexion software doesnt load and I am getting a load error.
Any ideas ??
Jaycee
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Been down that road and the latest drivers dont seem to download correctly from "3dconnexion". I end up with an error fault during the install phase.
I am trying to locate the older driver for a 4000 FLX series spaceball.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Regards,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
I don't know how to get them to you though... I don't think there's a PM funcion here & we're not supposed to post e-mail addresses. If you can figure out how - I'll hook you up.
Windows 2000 Professional / Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
SolidWorks 2005 SP04.0 / SpaceBall 4000 FLX
Lava Lamp
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Problem solved - for older Serial spaceballs ie: FX4000 serial etc, you need 3DxWare_3.6.4_win_reg.exe.
This is not at the normal sites and you need to search hard.
Thanks again
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Where'd you get such an idea & where'd you find those drivers?
Windows 2000 Professional / Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
SolidWorks 2005 SP04.0 / SpaceBall 4000 FLX
Lava Lamp
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
I started out with a 2000, at least that's what I think it was. I wasn't sure at first so I looked around for the cheapest one I could find. I paid about $20 on ebay for and used it for several years. I gave it another engineer when I got my 4000, which was also from ebay for $100, and he also can't imagine using SW without it.
Since they are so cheap on ebay, and readily available, you should just get one and see. Worst case your out $20, and best case your more productive then before.
For those who are looking for older drivers you can also try IBM and HP sites. I think 3D connexion makes all the units but they are marketed and sold by IBM and HP as well. I found the drive for my 2000 at IBM that still has all the older drives.
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
thx,
in10ss
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
CJ Goodrich
Product Design Engineer
Leatherman Tool Group
Portland, Oregon
http://www.leatherman.com
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
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TTraser
Engineer (LSD)
WWW.KWAUTOMOTIVE.COM
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
I'm currently using the spaceball 5000 I had a buddy order it for me using a student discount so I got it for $200 and it is especially usefull with a large forum post like this one. I think 3dconnexion originally had customers download individual drivers but the new drivers for the 5000 work with most programs including IE Netscape and Adobe. The adobe driver reduces the time it takes to Examine a large PDF and the Zoom toggle helps to keep the PDF zooming in our out inadverdently.
If you do have to work without one I'd suggest using a 5 button mouse where you can set the side buttons to act as the Ctrl or Shify kez so you can pan zoom and rotate with ease. I know on Catia and UG you can do all this with combinations of the 3 mouse buttons.
I'm sure you can email 3dconnexion and have them send you older drivers. I was actually annoyed with the new configuration UI with the spaceball 5000, luckily I kept the old version to be safe. The new interface has been limited by the number of windows you have to deal with.
*One Quick Tip for people updating to the new Spaceball drivers.
You can keep the customized 3DX macros that you might have created on the older versions.
To do so save your old config files user##.scg or sldworks.scg open these files with a text editor like notepad and search for the string "BUTTON_CHARACTERS"
and you'll see something like what I've shown below
BUTTON_CHARACTERS =
{
{ USER_001, },{ USER_002},etc
{ USER_015, "UG - Layer - Move item", " +18:540540929 -18:3224895489 +82:1245185 -82:1245185 +77:3276801 -77:3276801" },
{ USER_016, "KEY - CTRL", " +17:1900545 -17:3223126017" },
{ USER_017, "KEY - SHIFT", " +16:2752513 -16:3223977985" }
}
Copy the later entries and paste them into your new *.scg file and number them with the _### in the order you want them to appear in the list and save the file.
Michael
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
As I already had some experience with these things from a couple of years back (with UGS) it was simply a MUST-HAVE for me with my colleagues being slightly sceptical about it.
We got a pretty good deal on them with a free-trial period but now nobody wants to do without them anymore.
Sr. Design Engineer
Solidworks 2006/DBWorks 2006 user
Special electric motors & centrifugal fans
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Thanks
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
using spacepilots
anybody know of the code that it uses to
program the buttons for shade and wireframe views
called 3dconnexion they could not help
example
BUTTON_CHARACTERS =
ug
{ USER_001, },{ USER_002},etc
{ USER_015, "UG - Layer - Move item", " +18:540540929 -18:3224895489 +82:1245185 -82:1245185 +77:3276801 -77:3276801" },
{ USER_016, "KEY - CTRL", " +17:1900545 -17:3223126017" },
{ USER_017, "KEY - SHIFT", " +16:2752513 -16:3223977985" }
ideas
{ USER_013, "shift", " +16:2752513 -16:3223977985" },
{ USER_014, "ctrl", " +17:1900545 -17:3223126017" }
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
I think its Solid Works 2003, 3dconnextion said to enable a 3d device Add in but Add-ins does not show on my Tools menu as it says in the help section.
Does anyone else have or has had this problem in the past?
Thank you,
Michael
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP1.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2MB RAM, nVidia 2500M
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP1.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2MB RAM, nVidia 2500M
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
To get what you want in terms of Shade Display which are usually icons. 3DX may have these programmed for the different softwares but if not you can do the following.
Hold down the Alt key and look for the underlined Characters.
Go to Configuration and Select new command.
Enter a descriptive title
VIEW: Display - Shaded or Wireframe, Hidden, No hidden etc.
Click in the User Macro area and then type the key sequence and it will record as you type.
If the display otpions are available in the Right Click Pop ups yu can try the Menu keyboard button which will show as <Application> when you type it in.
Solid works
Shaded Alt + V D S
Wireframe Alt + V D W
I've done this for UG but don't know if I created the Display Types.
Michael
RE: Spaceballs (3d mouse)
it worked
ideas12
(ideas shade2 view display from a recored macro)
$ mpos :; /do so; ; dt shh appl canc
(as put into spacepilot)
<shift+4><Space>mpos<Space><Shift>+;;<Space>/do<Space>so;<Space>;<Space>dt<Space>shh<Space>appl<Space>canc<Enter>
(as shown in button characters in profile scg file)
{ USER_013, "SHADE VIEW", " +16:2752513 +52:327681 -52:327681 -16:3223977985 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +20:3801089 -20:3801089 +20:3801089 -20:3801089 +77:3276801 -77:3276801 +80:1638401 -80:1638401 +79:1572865 -79:1572865 +83:2031617 -83:2031617 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +186:2555905 -186:2555905 +8:917505 -8:917505 +16:3538945 +186:2555905 -186:2555905 -16:3224764417 +186:2555905 -186:2555905 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +191:3473409 -191:3473409 +68:2097153 -68:2097153 +79:1572865 -79:1572865 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +83:2031617 -83:2031617 +79:1572865 -79:1572865 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +186:2555905 -186:2555905 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +186:2555905 -186:2555905 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +68:2097153 -68:2097153 +84:1310721 -84:1310721 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +83:2031617 -83:2031617 +72:2293761 -72:2293761 +72:2293761 -72:2293761 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +65:1966081 -65:1966081 +80:1638401 -80:1638401 +80:1638401 -80:1638401 +76:2490369 -76:2490369 +32:3735553 -32:3735553 +67:3014657 -67:3014657 +65:1966081 -65:1966081 +78:3211265 -78:3211265 +67:3014657 -67:3014657 +13:1835009 -13:1835009" },