New SpaceMouse Ent - Empty 3dsMax Button Tab?

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Mike Truly
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New SpaceMouse Ent - Empty 3dsMax Button Tab?

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Just purchased the SpaceMouse Enterprise after having a perfectly functioning SpacePilot (since the dawn of time itself) which is no longer being supported.


Plugged in the SME, booted the workstation, SME seems to work fine(?).

Go to customize the buttons for use with MAX2014... empty 3dsMax tab... no functions.

Go to customize the buttons for use with MAX2020... all functions available.
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Any idea how to get the 3dsMax functions available again when using MAX2014?

Thanks.
Sincerely,

Mike Truly
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Re: New SpaceMouse Ent - Empty 3dsMax Button Tab?

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I should note that after it initially worked in MAX2020... the next visit to the button config menu, the 3dsMax tab was gone.

Driver version 10.6.4

Thanks!
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Re: New SpaceMouse Ent - Empty 3dsMax Button Tab?

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OK, I installed driver 10.6.0.

Started MAX2014 and went to button config and all the 3dsMax options were there. Programmed the top row of buttons to MAX functions. Proper function icons displayed on the SME. Went to go save the settings and the dialog seems to freeze for a long time... if I change focus of windows, finally the dialog disappears and leaves the config close dialog. I close the dialog and close MAX2014.

Restart MAX2014. All the top buttons have the proper programmed functions displayed. Create a box and orbit with the SME and it works fine. Press the #1 button that I had set and the function does NOT happen... but the Virtual NumPad pops up.

So the button programming is not sticking.

Same thing when the buttons are programmed in MAX2020.

Thanks!
Sincerely,

Mike Truly
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Re: New SpaceMouse Ent - Empty 3dsMax Button Tab?

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Win7 64 SP1
Driver 10.6.0
SpaceMouse Enterprise
3dsMax 2014 (latest ver) and 3dsMax2020 (latest ver)

Basically,

With MAX open, when trying to set the SME buttons to 3dsMax functions... when clicking 'Close' to save the settings, the dialog freezes, MAX freezes. After several minutes, you can get the dialog to close and MAX functionality returns, but the SME no longer works to control the views in MAX and the buttons settings are not saved properly.

If MAX is started again, the SME will work in MAX until an attempt is made to save button settings, then it will freeze the system again.

Thanks!
Sincerely,

Mike Truly
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Re: New SpaceMouse Ent - Empty 3dsMax Button Tab?

Post by luping »

Well, there's a plug-in for Maya 2014 in 3DxWare v10.6.4, but the problem is that it's a buggy plug-in.
As for 3DxWare v10.6.0, the plug-ins for Maya are also buggy. So you have to wait for the next release of 3DxWare from 3Dconnexion.
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Re: New SpaceMouse Ent - Empty 3dsMax Button Tab?

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Thanks for the ideas!

But I'm using 3dsMax... not Maya.
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Re: New SpaceMouse Ent - Empty 3dsMax Button Tab?

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OK, finally got it sorted.

I believe that there were leftover SpacePilot config folders/files that was causing the problem.

I uninstalled the 3DConnexion software. Then deleted the 3DConnexion folders from appdata>local>etc. Rebooted the system. Installed the 10.5.15 driver and the SME worked properly (no freezing upon saving button configs) in both MAX2014 and MAX2020. Then rebooted and installed the 10.6.0 driver and it worked properly in both MAX versions.

Then rebooted and installed the 10.6.4 driver. Got weird flashing of the object when orbiting via the knob. Went to config buttons and all the 3dsMax functions were gone from the list.

Uninstalled drivers and deleted the 3DConnexion folder and rebooted. Reverted back to the 10.6.0 driver and all is well.

Thanks!
Sincerely,

Mike Truly
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Re: New SpaceMouse Ent - Empty 3dsMax Button Tab?

Post by luping »

Mike Truly wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 1:04 am Thanks for the ideas!

But I'm using 3dsMax... not Maya.
Oh, my bad, 3ds max and Maya are all from Autodesk, so there may be some similarities.
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