Spaceball driver crashes in SW2003 SP1.0
Spaceball driver crashes in SW2003 SP1.0
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When you have a file open in SW2003, and you try to open SW Explorer inside the program, your spaceball 4000 FLX driver does not work anymore. You have to reboot your machine to get it working again.
If you open SW E outside SolidWorks (start menu), there is no problem.
Does anyone now how to solve this problem? I use the next drivers:
3DxWare_v2-3-5_win32.exe
3DxSolidWorks_v2-2-1_win32.exe
If you open SW E outside SolidWorks (start menu), there is no problem.
Does anyone now how to solve this problem? I use the next drivers:
3DxWare_v2-3-5_win32.exe
3DxSolidWorks_v2-2-1_win32.exe






RE: Spaceball driver crashes in SW2003 SP1.0
3D Xware 2.3.0 Build 6 and
Add in Driver 2.2.4.0
They are working "best yet" for me. However, I don't use explorer much.
Regards,
Sean F
seanf@newing-halll.com
1 2 many l's in the addy :)
RE: Spaceball driver crashes in SW2003 SP1.0
But I can live with it for the moment. But there are still a few problems which are anoying.
RE: Spaceball driver crashes in SW2003 SP1.0
yes, we had a discussion some weeks ago in our german web forum and they figured out (with the help of API support and the developers of 3D Connexion) that there is a API related bug in SW2003:
SPR#162246 Crash dragging sketch line after calling ModelView::StartDynamics
So for 3D Connexion can't fix this the changed the driver so it wont crash SolidWorks anymore, but the backdraft is, that they just disabled this in their new driver.
So we (and they) have to wait for SolidWorks to fix the API and 3D Connexion to build another driver. Hopefully both of them do it as fast as they catched the previous crash issue.
HTH,
Stefan
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RE: Spaceball driver crashes in SW2003 SP1.0
- 3DxSolidWorks_v2-2-7_win32.exe
- 3DxWare_v3-1-11_win32.exe
I use at the moment:
- 3DxSolidWorks_v2-2-5_win32.exe
- 3DxWare_v3-0-24_win32.exe
I tested both new drivers. Unfortunately, when you have selected at least one entity in a sketch, the spaceball is still blocked untill you deselect all entities.
SolidWorks Explorer starts up quicker and without problems. But like older drivers the spaceball does not respond anymore after closing SWE. So I back graded to my current drivers again. What are those guys at 3Dconnextion doing? They have released a lot of drivers since the introduction of SW2003, but none performs like the drivers I had suitable for SW2001plus.
I wanted to provide all engineers over here with a spaceball, but thanks to the problems with these drivers IT has put the order on hold.