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SpaceMouse any good?

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ElektroQuark:
I have no experience with this type of devices.
Any advice to share?
Any model recommended?
It will be used with Altium and Rhinoceros.

Rufus:

--- Quote from: EdoNork on December 17, 2013, 04:23:27 pm ---I have no experience with this type of devices.

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For working in 3D (and assuming support in whatever software you use) you won't know how you managed without one.

Altium support is fine.

The most basic version will give you 90% of what you want. The wireless version seems pretty much pointless.

free_electron:
3Dconnexion Spacenavigtor 79$

i have been using it for 4 years. No drivers needed, no configuration needed. install the spacenavigator software and run. Altium recognises it, rhino recognises it , even word recognises it. ( zoom/pan)

Put the navigator left of the keyboard, moure right of the keyboard.

The navigator is so addictive that you frequently curse at programs that dont work with it !

In altium you use the navigator to dynamically zoom and pan while you are routing. so you use both navigator and mouse simultaneously. it is extremely fluid (if you have a decent graphics card with lots of ram)

All my computers at home have one connected, i even keep one in my laptop bag. Same at work.
I simply can't live without that thing.

It also works in Solidworks , everything from Autodesk, and many other 3d tools.

This thing is a direct descendent from the space navigator that silicon graphics had , so all that hi-end 3d software supports the protocol natively. Fro software that does not support 3D the 3dx software provides a transition layer . so you can pan/zoom in acrobat, google earth and lots of other programs.

This thing does not use the same command pipe like a mouse. it is really a specific 3d command pipe , similar to the mouse command pipe , that programs can hook into. it is a standardized API specifically for 3D work.
Only those programs not understanding this command pipe need the translation layer.

marshallh:

--- Quote from: free_electron on December 17, 2013, 06:48:53 pm ---3Dconnexion Spacenavigtor 79$

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Ok you sold me. I'll post up once I route a board with it

ElektroQuark:
99€ here. Oh well... I love Europe :)

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