ST compatible with 3D connexion products?

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

Hi,

happy new year!

Does any body know if I can use 3D connexion mouses with ST:

http://www.3dconnexion.com/index.php

cheers

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  • Darren Chilton_21533
    Darren Chilton_21533
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2012

    The bad news is that we currently don't support them. The good news is that we will support the 3D Connexion devices in our next release.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited November 2013

    Here we are nearly 2 years since the last post and still no support for 3dconnexion devices.  Any idea of a more specific timeframe for seeing support for these?  I just bought one and love it, and I'm surprised that ST have not yet introduced support for them.

  • Darren Chilton_21533
    Darren Chilton_21533
    Altair Employee
    edited November 2013

    We have officially added support for the 3D Connexion devices in Evolve version 9.5.  What version are you running and what issues are you having?

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited November 2013

    Hi,

    I'm using 9.5 and although the device works inside the program, there seems to be no configuration options as in other supported apps.  I believe I can create custom profiles using the device's own utility app but some functions like the various modes can't be set or changed, and the ability to lock the horizon (a very useful function) can't be set.  Evolve's keyboard shortcuts seem limited in number and I don't believe there's an option to reassign or add shortcuts, although my unit only has 2 buttons, this is not overly important but one function I would really like to assign to both the keyboard and the device is the 'Fit whole model' button from the viewport which (as you explained to me in another post) is the best way to overcome the erratic orbit behaviour I've been experiencing.

     

    I confess that I am only at the very early 'beginner' level of competency with evolve so I would not be familiar with many of its finer capabilities or it's use so can only report that which feels 'odd' or non-intuitive to me personally.  The limited number of free tutorial assets, in particular video tutorials (with audio) is another hinderance in learning what is clearly a very powerful and full featured program and as a consequence I tend to fall back to what I am already familiar with.  I wish I had more time to devote to mastering evolve.

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2014

    Thanks for finally integrating this functionality into v9.5 of Inspire.

     

    Pan left, right, up, and down works fine.

     

    Rotations all work fine.

     

    Zoom in and out doesn't work at all! Push or pull the 3D mouse and nothing happens.

     

    What's the deal with that? I'm forced to use the scroll wheel on my other mouse.

     

    Very non-good. Please fix.

     

    Stephen

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