3D mouse device

[penang]

Does anyone have any experience with the following device (known as 3D-sphere-mouse)?



It is advertised as a mouse designed for those who do 3D rendering, like CAD

According to http://www.axsotic.com/overview.html ...

In a normal 3D-Workflow, you need to serialize navigation steps to move, zoom and rotate, and then finally you can work

With the 3D-Spheric-Mouse you can do all of the steps at the same time

I have no experience with it, just asking here if anyone ever  used it before, and will appreciate your opinion of it

Thanks !!

[Tangled-Universe]

What a stupid design, I don't see why a "regular" trackball design wouldn't offer the same functionality?
Those sensors don't need to be exactly on those locations.

[DannyG]

That thing is an antique. We use http://www.3dconnexion.com/ at work. Daz, later versions of Vue, all autodesk products, adobe and a few other applications support these 3d mouses. They are pretty handy. Bought one for the house 89 bucks for the space navigator version e-bay. Would be nice if Terragen could support this.

[jaf]

That thing is an antique. We use http://www.3dconnexion.com/ at work. Daz, later versions of Vue, all autodesk products, adobe and a few other applications support these 3d mouses. They are pretty handy. Bought one for the house 89 bucks for the space navigator version e-bay. Would be nice if Terragen could support this.

I may be wrong, but I thought the 3dxWare software could be set up to work in almost any application.  Seems I remember a year or so ago they were developing it and had scripts or macros for Zbrush and some other applications.  I use my Pilot extensively with 3D-Coat, but not sure howeffective it would be with Terragen,

[DannyG]

That thing is an antique. We use http://www.3dconnexion.com/ at work. Daz, later versions of Vue, all autodesk products, adobe and a few other applications support these 3d mouses. They are pretty handy. Bought one for the house 89 bucks for the space navigator version e-bay. Would be nice if Terragen could support this.

I may be wrong, but I thought the 3dxWare software could be set up to work in almost any application.  Seems I remember a year or so ago they were developing it and had scripts or macros for Zbrush and some other applications.  I use my Pilot extensively with 3D-Coat, but not sure howeffective it would be with Terragen,

I think anything that allows you to use 2 hands would positively effect ones work flow. The ability to keep your standard mouse in the network and navigate in the 3d preview would be nice to be able to do. Certainly not essential.