3Dconnexion 3DX-700056 SpaceMouse Enterprise - 3D mouse - 31 buttons - wired - USB - (Mice & Pointing Devices > Mouse)

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What 3Dconnexion has done for many years is build a range of devices that focus on this idea and expand capabilities around it as you move up the product range. At the entry level, the SpaceNavigator, gives you the motion cap and a couple of buttons. Then as you progress up to the zenith, the SpaceMouse Enterprise, which has a lot of additional features. While the SpaceMouse products give you a special purpose 3D control device and it has a niche to itself (practically), the CadMouse is a very different beast. Mice are a very personal preference. One workaround is to quit Fusion and terminate the "3DconnexionHelper" process using Activity Monitor. Then, restart 3DconnexionHelper (open the "3Dconnexion" pane in System Preferences, say) and then launch Fusion 360.

I know I'm in a bit of a rant but honestly it is upsetting me and I feel it's reasonable to be upset about this situation and how it's being handled. So, what does 3Dconnexion think it can bring to an already crowded market? The answer is pretty much on two fronts. The first is that the device has three mouse buttons. The CadMouse is very comfortable to use for long periods at a time. The middle mouse button being separated from the scroll wheel, while seemingly like an anachronism these days, makes perfect sense and it has been very well executed. Design– It weighs only 1.76 pounds, but you would think more. The SpaceMouse Enterprise is solid device with the attention to materials and ergonomics 3Dconnexion has become known for. The button action is just right and the LCD display is positioned to be easily viewed and readable under different light conditions.s unifi ed drivers and set-up/customisation menu makes it easy to assign controls to all of its devices from a single application SpaceMouse Enterprise Kit – What else is in the box? To find the serial number ( PID) directly on your 3Dconnexion device, where you need to look depends on your device type: The same applies to this combination of devices — your dominant hand moves the tool (in this instance, the cursor with the mouse), while the non-dominant hand manipulates the object (the SpaceMouse). If your device is connected to your Windows computer, the serial number (PID) is shown in the “About” panel of the driver (3Dconnexion Home > Settings > More > About): CadMouse Compact, CadMouse Pro, CadMouse, SpaceMouse Compact, SpaceMouse Pro and SpaceMouse Enterprise:

I’ve always been a fan of 3Dconnexion and its range of 3D controllers. It has been one of the only hardware vendors to have served the market consistently for any period of time. The products are always built with the long term user in mind and it puts a lot of effort into supporting 3D design tool users. The company has abandoned some of its earlier experiments with showing additional information and notifications on this screen; instead, it’s devoted to giving you 12 shortcut keys (with the buttons below) as the LCD mimics then.

This is a key thing to understand here. The shortcut keys are both application and context sensitive. If you’re using Inventor, then it’ll show a set of operations that are appropriate to Inventor — and that selection will differ if you’re in Part, assembly or drawing mode. Same goes for most mainstream systems we tried it with.

Still it's unclear what else the customers need to do to get a working driver for their very expensive desk decorations. From your posts I summarise: Firstly, to the left of the cap, you have a full set of keyboard modifiers (Escape, Control, Shift, Alt and new to the Enterprise, Enter, Delete, Space and Tab) . To the right of the cap, you have three customisable “view” buttons. These can be set to specific views (set by holding the button down until it registers). Below those you have a number of additional controls for view rotation, to zoom to fi t and a couple more.Rather than panning, rotating or zooming one step at a time, you can use the motion cap on the device to simultaneously pan, zoom and rotate. Unfortunately this problem exists since 10.7.2 which has killed all devices buttons for blender. They promised a fix for 10.7.3 but clearly that was bs once again. It's a real shame how 3DConnexion treats their customers who bought their "pro" hardware but not caring enough to make their drivers work. I've been using 3DConnexion devices for about 14 years now and I don't want to go all pepperidge farm here, but I do remember a time when their drivers were working fine. It's been way too many years since that was the case. What’s also interesting is that customisation is both accessible and pretty sophisticated, but we’ll deal with that shortly as you use the same method to customise both the 3D controller as well as the more traditional CadMouse product. So, let’s look at that next. CadMouse