I have been using my Spacemouse Wireless for several years in Inventor, Creo, Spaceclaim, Ansys, and others with more or less expected results. Recently I have started to use Microstation and have run into several problems. I have searched online for solutions, tried older and newer drivers, changed every setting available but cannot solve any of these issues.
The problems are as follows:
1) Yaws relative to object rather than the user, so if you flip the object upside-down down it will rotate in reverse relative to the user, or if you are looking at the bottom or top it will act like roll.
2) Roll does not work at all.
3) All directions need to be reversed with the checkmark in 3dConnexions Advanced Settings.
4) Center of rotation seems impossible to change. Selecting a rotation point with a mouse does not have any effect on the Spacemouse point of rotation. Sometimes the point of rotation is a long way off especially when zoomed in making the Spacemouse unusable. (I have seen some discussion about this issue with no real solution)
I was wondering if others users have had these issues with their Spacemouse on Microstation v8i, and if there are solutions or reasonable workarounds.
Thanks.
I needed to be in 'Object Mode'. Selecting this mode appears to have solved all of my issues. To change this setting use Utilities > Key-in, then type 'view navigation 3dinput', then select 'object'
or
Utilities > Key-in, then type 'VIEW NAVIGATION 3DINPUT TOOLBOX' to bring up the toolbar and select 'Object Mode' which is the hand icon. There is a description of the different modes in help, search for 'Graphical Input', read 'Graphical Input with a 3Dconnexion Device' for instructions. Thanks for the help!
Answer Verified By: CB
I tried 3d input then found Graphical Input which had most of what I needed. Thanks!