3Dconnexion Forum

We'd be thrilled to have more students using our devices. Note that we have special pricing for students and now have a $59 device specifically targeted at students. The $59 SpaceNavigator is a little bigger, heavier than the SpaceTraveler, but it works with all the same applications. It only has tw...

I don't think we've ever tried it, but it might be possible. The problem may be with the registry. There are some entries that are expected to be in HKLM. Students won't have write access to those entries. The best option is to ghost and distribute a machine with 3DxWare installed. Of course, the au...

Hi Scott, To transfer to a completely new environment you need to do two things: 1) Copy all your saved user profiles (*.scg files) from %APPDATA% in the old environment to %APPDATA% in the new environment. 2) Export all the relationships between those profiles and the application names. These are s...

From Ken: "Anything prior to version 11m3 has a bottle neck problem. It will crash if used with a USB device. The fix is to slow down the USB data rate." The bottleneck problem is a bug in I-DEAS that causes it to crash if it gets data too fast from the input device. I guess it was fixed i...

Hi gforrest, It is nearly impossible for your hand to move one axis without generating crosstalk along another axis. To eliminate crosstalk you have to use a filter of some sort. The driver provides a single-axis-at-a-time filter called "Dominant" in the App Configuration tab of the GUI. I...

Hi Mike,

Then there is only one more thing to try.

Edit the config file and change:

MACRO_MECHANISM = 0

to

MACRO_MECHANISM = 1

If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas.

Jim

You could have opened the 3DxWare GUI and turned all the axes on in either the Advanced Tab or the App Configuration tab. PanOnly and ZoomOnly are not toggles (good suggestion though). You can assign "Translations" to another button. It is a toggle.

Hi Gunnar,

Please see this thread:

viewtopic.php?p=828#828

Let us know if that helps.

Jim
3Dx Software Development

Oops, sorry. I just read that you are on an x64 system. 3DxOffice doesn't work on x64. You can try one more thing. Your saved user config files should be saved under your %APPDATA% directory. Edit one of these, say the Combustion one, with wordpad (It has to be a Unicode-capable editor). Find the li...

Hi Mike, These other apps were supported because of our generic Windows plugin called [somewhat misleadingly] 3DxOffice. It provided not only support for Office apps, but other otherwise unsupported Windows apps. The easiest way to reestablish the use of your previous config files is to reinstall 3D...

This bug has been fixed. It will be in 3DxSoftware 3.1.2.

Hi GMAN,

How does CATIA lock up? Does the 3DxWare driver consume all of the system CPU time?

Jim

Yes, the bug is in the beta. I just found the problem yesterday, and I released the beta to manufacturing last week. I'll fix it.

GE Launch panel? Not sure what you mean. GE does have some settings that effect 3Dx devices in Tools->Options->Navigation

Hi Jerry, Sorry. Was a bit of a Dilbert moment there--I'm an engineer, it's my job to bury you in useless info, yet not answer your question <G>. The GUI does not have any way of allowing you to swap axes in any arbitrary way. You should first try changing the Zoom direction in the Device Configurat...

AXIS MAPPING You can rearrange the motion axes of the device. The GUI does this when you switch the zoom direction or select Reverse All Axes. This mapping is controlled by a setting in the config file. You can map any axis to any direction you want, but we definitely suggest sticking with the optio...