I actually also use a 3D space navigator. I don’t recall getting stuck with navigation. Maybe I am using it wrong.
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@nathanletwory I love your keyboard. Is this a custom rig or can it be purchased someplace?
To keep this thread more on topic I wrote the actual answer in my Kyria topic in #meta here My new keyboard, with Rhino logo - #4 by nathanletwory
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After some testing I guess the difference is that you use either object or target object mode. I don’t like these modes so I primarily use camera mode, and a bit of helicopter mode. With these two modes I never have experienced your quicksand phenomenon, but I see it does with object and target object mode.
I’ll probably never learn to use those two modes, I’ll keep happily using my 3D space navigator in the sane camera and helicopter modes (:
I don’t know if it is important, but I have never actually installed the 3D Connexion drivers. Never had the need for them, not even when I added customization for buttons on the space pilot pro in Blender. I’ve always used them just directly plugged in to the computer, even now with Rhino.
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I’ve been away for a while, so just checking in due to needs for grasshopper research. Notice some old replies here I neglected due to lack of time.
Above you’ll see the image of the “viewport camera diagram”, and my references to it.
It’s possible the modes you’re using may not be changing the distance between ‘1’ and ‘4’, so you may not experience the ‘quicksand’ effect.
But I’ll have to look into this later, and possibly open up a new thread that will focus more heavily on this 20+ yr old problem.
p.s. cool keyboards 