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

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

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

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For this product, 3Dconnexion has put a lot of effort into ensuring that the icons shown match those on the application you’re using. 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. Some might question having wired devices (and there have been moves to release wireless devices elsewhere in 3Dconnexion’s range in the last year or two), but to my mind, this is a set-up that’s aimed fairly and squarely at those that are spending a lot of quality time at a desk. So, having wired devices makes sense — no charging, even if you’ve got a couple of cables trailing across your desk. 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:

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): 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. 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. Then there’s the two rows of shortcut buttons across the top of the screen and the accompanying LCD screen, which is premium feature for the range.

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The SpaceMouse Enterprise represents the high-end of the range and it’s a continuation of the company’s good work and incremental improvement of its products. To be honest, I’m surprised that the LCD and buttons are still there with today’s focus on touch screens, but considering that these types of devices are used without looking at them, then it makes sense. 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). Some will be happy with whatever is supplied with their workstation, some will have a very specific preference — Logitech’s higher-end devices seem to be very popular in the CAD world. Some will try to keep the same mouse running for decades because it’s almost become part of their anatomy — I know when my original IntelliMouse (battered and broken as it was) gave up, I was more than a little upset.

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.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. 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 Then we have the CadMouse. To be frank, I was not convinced that 3Dconnexion could add much to the mouse but after nearly a year’s worth of working with the CadMouse, it has replaced my faithful Thermaltake Level 10 M (designed by BMW Design Labs no less). 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.



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