I use the following “hack” to make Rhino 7 work with my discontinued SpacePilot. Basically I just replace the plug-in in the corresponding folder with an older one for Rhino 6. The only downside of this is that I have to repeat the process after each new update of Rhino 7.
- On Windows 10 I already had 3DxWare version 10.3.0 installed.
- I opened the following folder: “C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins”.
- Then I made a back-up copy of the “3dxrhino.rhp” plug-in and placed it in another folder just in case.
- Then I used the following plug-in from Rhino 6.3 and replaced the original Rhino 7 plug-in:
3dxrhino.rar (130.6 KB) - Then I started Rhino 7 and the 3d connexion plug-in recognized the program as Rhinoceros 5 (SpacePilot has an LCD screen that shows that information).
- The SpacePilot required some settings to be made inside Rhino 7, such as “Lock Horizon” etc, just the usual customization that everyone does.