A spaceball tip
A spaceball tip
(OP)
It has been brought up in here on why NX does not have more commands available on the RMC (right mouse click), or the option to add our own commands to it.
I recently changed jobs and I noticed that my on my spaceball I am able to assign (limited) NX commands to the buttons. I have a simple 2 button spaceball from 3DConnection. My buttons were assigned "transform" on one and "show all" on the other. I really do not use "transform" as much as I used to, but it still is convienient to have it available at the press of a button.
I really don't know if this was available on any other spaceball that I have worked with, but it sure is nice.
Just a warning ... onn the spaceball menu "hide" is listed as "blank", and "show" is listed as "unblank", so therefore "show all" is listed as "unblank all". The "blank" terminology comes from older versions of NX.
I recently changed jobs and I noticed that my on my spaceball I am able to assign (limited) NX commands to the buttons. I have a simple 2 button spaceball from 3DConnection. My buttons were assigned "transform" on one and "show all" on the other. I really do not use "transform" as much as I used to, but it still is convienient to have it available at the press of a button.
I really don't know if this was available on any other spaceball that I have worked with, but it sure is nice.
Just a warning ... onn the spaceball menu "hide" is listed as "blank", and "show" is listed as "unblank", so therefore "show all" is listed as "unblank all". The "blank" terminology comes from older versions of NX.





RE: A spaceball tip
Of course, to get the most out of it, it's best if you had taken piano lessons as a kid
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RE: A spaceball tip
Pretty expensive paperweight in my opinion.
The buttons are so wicked stiff that it litterally hurts by the end of the day. The position of the buttons on the left side is less than ideal. In my opinion this is the result of an designer going crazy. It's all about the looks and absolutely unergonomic.
In my opinion the non pro, normal Space Pilot is much more usable.
Nebur
RE: A spaceball tip
But that stays in the office. At home I have the regular 2-button Space Navigator and for on the road I use the smaller 2-button Space Navigator for Laptops.
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RE: A spaceball tip
RE: A spaceball tip
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: A spaceball tip
I have the same model space mouse. The idea is great but the implementation sucks. The buttons are almost unusable, they are to stiff, to close together and pretty much in all the wrong places. The central paddle works flawlessly though, that is why I still use the device.
Overall the general shape fits the hand and supports the wrist nicely. I never use the LCD screen. If the buttons where in the right places for the shape of the human hand and gave a better response/feedback on touch (more like a normal keyboard would be fine) then it would be a must for the NX designer. Most likely if the buttons worked I would use the LCD screen occasionally.
cheers,
JohnFox
RE: A spaceball tip
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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RE: A spaceball tip
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Her office is on the first floor and mine's on the second
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Now don't get me wrong, if you're just using it at your desk and not constantly packing up the unit, it may be OK for years.
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