3D Connexion Space mouse Mac

Rhino Rhino for Mac
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Hello,

I’m trying to setup my SpaceMouse Pro in Rhino 8 (again, since none of the settings from Rhino 7 carried over…). My issue is the dialog in Rhino’s settings allow me to change some buttons, but other buttons there is just no option at all. It also doesn’t include any options for pan/tilt/zoom.

The only option seems to be to use the 3D Connexion program in system settings also to fully customize my spacemouse.

Are there any tips on how to customize a spacemouse without using two seperate dialogs (one in rhino, one in System Settings on the Mac)? The options I’ve set in the Rhino dialog work great, but that dialog doesn’t recognize other buttons i need to change. Button 5 and Button 6 are great, but i have no option to change to perspective or top views using the same type of commands on different buttons.

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so i have to use the 3d connexion dialog with weird macros that only kind of work.

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sorry this is so long, any help would be appreciated.

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Welcome to the paradox of the world yet to be 3D mouse friendly, but instead having conflicting drivers and redundancies.

My only tip is to lower your expectations on what Rhino can do with a 3D mouse. Not much has changed in this regard for over 15 yrs.

About the only improvement that’s been made is the implementation of 3dconnexions ‘auto reset target’ algorithms, which attempt to solve one problem by causing another.

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The issue is it worked fairly well in rhino 7. I still had to use both dialogs, but at least it worked. McNeel seems to change multiple UI elements every major release, its annoying having to setup everything from scratch instead of a settings import. Its even more annoying when setting locations are arbitrarily moved or removed.

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It definitely is. This is the very reason I stopped doing extensive customizations. It just got old redoing everything.

It’s also inevitable that the drivers have to be fresh installed once in a while in order to fix various unexplainable problems.

You never know when a cosmic particle will cause a bit-flip. It’s more common than ppl think.

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Hi @zachraven
In the rhino setting, just leave Button #2 with a command [as you already did].
No Need to deal with the Rhino setting page beyond that
And then assign all the other buttons through the 3Dx setting in System, and it works fine.

For me [with Enterprise device] it worked best to assign in Rhino hotkeys to the command I want to use [including view manipulations]. and then assign Macros in the 3Dx page [so you have the commands names and you don’t need to remember the hotkeys]

HTH
Akash