The 3D Mouse. Quite the visage of refinement in the 3D CAD World. Sitting slightly to left of your keyboard in all its glory, carried in its padded case to and fro, even securing a special place on the nightstand next to your bed… ahem. The 3D Mouse. People love’em or… don’t use them. We’re taking a look at a new one. The SpaceMouse Pro from 3DConnexion.
I tore the tender gristle from my wrist joint last week and sent my loose appendage into the Exhibition hall of Autodesk University 2011, straight down to the 3DConnexion booth. Before the blood completely drained, I (or rather, my hand) was able to twitch uncontrollably on top of the new product from 3DConnexion, the SpaceMouse Pro. A big thanks to Mark, Kristen and Mei for not freaking out and booting it into a seminar on data management. Here’s what I found out…
Are you even the slightest bit interested in going to Las Vegas for Autodesk University 2011? Well, how would you like to go at someone else’s expense? Yeah, that (and beef stew) is what I’m talkin’ about. Perhaps even more enticing, how would you like to win a 3D Mouse to hang around your necks whilst romping up and down the Las Vegas strip? Even BETTER. 3DConnexion is making all your ‘free airfare and hotel accommodation’ dreams come true and all you have to do is give up a little bit of that prized personal info and register to win! Here are all the details.
Another WednesDAY, another dollar. Only this time it’s slightly less dough for you to spend OR eat. A fresh can of mold release should be able to help. Shake off the mid-week doldrums by taking a peek inside your favorite and perhaps not-so-favorite gadgets. Grab your toolbox and get inspired!
This week’s entry: Logitech Trackman Wheel
Ugh, Wednesdays. Like a punch to the gizzard, only slightly less satisfying. Friday’s around the corner but just out of reach. What to do? Shake off the mid-week doldrums by taking a peek inside your favorite and perhaps not-so-favorite gadgets. Grab your toolbox and get inspired!
This week’s entry: a 3Dconnexion SpaceExplorer
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I love my 3DConnexion 3D mouse, don’t get me wrong. But even the recent version 10 drivers have left me wanting more. I want to control reality like I do my viewport. As it turns out, that might be doable. 3DConnexion posted a video on Youtube, showing them controlling a Parrot AR Drone with a 3Dconnexion mouse. You may have seen the video before, but it’s so worth seeing again.
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In times like these, when you sit teary-eyed staring at the 3D mouse/keyboard/mouse device horror sprawled out before you, the future may seem bleak and filled with long hours of moving your hands about your multi-buttoned workspace. But have hope, the future hold unbound possibility. The time has come to take matters into your own hands. You can mod the devices yourself. YES. You have everything you need – the 3D mouse, the keyboard and the key component that brings it all together…
It comes down to this. A typically Tuesday morning with nothing but the smell of hard work in the air, lukewarm coffee and multiple ways to make 3D happen. We had just over 50 entires in the Rock Your Desktop contest, which correlates to just over 50 GrabCAD portfolio submissions you should check out via the comments of that last link. One is the winner of a 3DConnexion SpacePilot PRO.
The winner is…
When you have a hankering to gnaw on a 3D mouse, you pretty much have an option between a 3DConnexion mouse and another 3DConnexion mouse. Not many choices, but when it comes down to it, the taste of that molded rubber wrist pad is going to put a smile on your face.
We’d like to do that as well by giving one away. Not just any ol’ 3DConnexion 3D mouse though. A SpacePilot PRO 3D mouse. Their top of the line, 2lb, 30-key, color LCD, 6 degree of freedom, 3D movin’, command groovin’ beast of epic rotation, desktop rockin’ bliss.
Do you remember days spent carving a stick down by the river and you’d swear it could do everything? I do. That stick could kill the undead, make sweet gravy biscuits out of thin air or be used to vault over a ravine of feral hogs. Yes, it could do it all. Much like a software update just released by 3DConnexion. It’s nothing like a stick you say? I agree! But now, fellow river folk, feel the intensity as you bash your way through any application using a… wait. for. it… 3D MOUSE!!!
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