If anything, I find it more useful to have a customizable shortcut keyboard coupled with the 3d mouse (just so I don’t have to bother with the tabs and ribbon). While modeling I find that I need to quickly position the model and select surfaces with the cursor (not to mention select functions from the ribbon menu) which is more easily done using a 3d mouse and separate pointing device simultaneously.
I use CREO to work in solid models every day, and I can imagine a world where a space mouse combined with a mouse would be nice… but somehow it seems like it’d turn out to be the seventh circle of hell – and not only because I am an unrepentant track ball user.
#Logitech 6 deg 3d cad mouse pro
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There are many other takes on this idea, with varying levels of complexity, like this incredible build from that sadly doesn’t make the PCBs available openly, and here’s one we covered earlier mashing the expensive 3DConnexion spacemouse into a keeb. It may not be very accurate for detailed PCB layout work, but for moving around in a 3D view, or dialling in a video edit, this could be a very useful addition to your workstation, so why not give it a try? The wiring is simple, the parts easily found and cheap, and it’s only a few printed parts! This scribe is already printing the plastics right now, if you listen carefully you might be able to make out the sound of the Lulzbot in background. Since your machine will take input from multiple sources, it doesn’t replace your mouse, it augments it. The idea is pretty straightforward you setup the firmware with the application you want to use it with, and it emits HID events to the connected PC, replacing the mouse or keyboard input. But what about open source alternatives you can build yourselves? Enter stage left, the Orbion created by This simple little build combines an analog joystick with a rotary knob, with a rear button and OLED display on the front completing the user interface. We think that something may be called ‘usability’ or maybe ease-of-use? Any which way, lots of heavy CAD users gush over their favourite mouse stand-ins, and one particularly interesting class of input devices is the Space Mouse, which is essentially patented up-to-the-hilt and available only from 3DConnexion. When you spend a lot of time on the computer doing certain more specialised tasks (no, we’re not talking about browsing cat memes on twitter) you start to think that your basic trackpad or mouse is, let’s say, lacking a certain something.
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