How to customize my spacepilot to the various environnement of catia

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rcesauve
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How to customize my spacepilot to the various environnement of catia

Post by rcesauve »

Hello,
I'd like to know if there is a way to customize my buttons for the different environnement of Catia.
I mean is there a way to have a my buttons to do specific action while in a design window and other specific action while in a drawing window (for example the button 4 is for creating a hole in the design windowe and it is for adding dimension in my drawing/drafting window).
I know this option is available on other cad programs, but can i do it on catia?
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Re: How to customize my spacepilot to the various environnement of catia

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Hello rcesauve,

this functionality is not available in Catia. Sorry.
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Re: How to customize my spacepilot to the various environnement of catia

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Hello,
It's a shame that we don't have environment recognition for Catia. Can't you add this funcionality?
I don't see a big problem for this, with VBA you can recognize Catia environment with 2 lines of code :

Dim strWbID As String
strWbID = CATIA.GetWorkbenchId()

The strWbID outputs Catia active environment (Assembly, PrtCfg-Part, Drw-Drawing, CS0WKS-Sketch etc.)

If you can't make this possible, although i do not see a problem, can you add funcionality to manualy change and add custom button profiles?
For example, i manualy create multiple profiles for Catia (Catia-drawing, Catia-Part etc..) , and then change it with press of a button.

I have Spacemouse Enterprise and i like it very much, but this restrictions bother me.

Thanks!
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Re: How to customize my spacepilot to the various environnement of catia

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Hello slamek,

together with Dassault Systèmes we are working on this. Please bear with us. :-)
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Re: How to customize my spacepilot to the various environnement of catia

Post by SSC »

It can be easily done by whoever is responsible for CATIA.dll (found under the default installation location C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\3DxWinCore64\Win64\DLLs)

Apparently, Developers at 3dconnextion are not showing any interest to fix it.
Here is another thread I started and I am still waiting.
https://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewt ... 957#p65957
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Re: How to customize my spacepilot to the various environnement of catia

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UtaSH wrote: Fri Dec 21, 2018 7:47 am Hello slamek,

together with Dassault Systèmes we are working on this. Please bear with us. :-)
how long?
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