I have a person that want’s to sign up for my training that has lost one arm. While I use keyboard taps and mouse movement shortcuts a lot, I’m fairly certain that all commands can be accessed with a mouse. Is this correct? And/or are there accomodation plug-ins for a person in this situation?
Kind thanks for all responses!
Gary D
while i find a “3D mouse” gimmicky because i am so much faster navigating rhino with two hands, i can see how this type of mouse could help with one-handed navigation.
the 3dconnexion compact can usually be found on ebay for ~$80-120, and it’s a one-handed tool to zoom, orbit, rotate (pretty much everything you can do with alt/shift clicking). some of the “enterprise” or “pro” versions have hot keys on the device too, but come with a price premium.
Yeah, everything you’re going to learn in training anyway, I’m pretty sure.
I broke one wrist once and got one of those “MMO mice” with a bunch of extra buttons I mapped to the various view-manipulation modifiers and ESC and Enter and maybe a couple other commands.
A 3D mouse pretty much requires a regular mouse in the other hand for interaction…
with using a regular mouse and single hand, you can’t precisely zoom or pan without using the toolbar. the resolution of the scroll wheel is the limiting factor. with a 3d mouse, you can zoom/orbit/rotate more precisely
mmo mouse is a good call, then you could map shift/alt/ctrl to some keys and move the camera better than using a 3d mouse.
Hi Gary,
I would customize the middle mouse pop-up menu with the commands they need. Also a decent gaming mouse will offer a few more buttons which can be customized with Rhino commands.
I have pan on mine because I don’t like putting my coffee down when navigating the perspective view, one thing that can’t be programmed is the shit-tab ortho override that I use constantly. I hear in V9 they are making a command for it.
RM
This ^
ESC , TAB , SHIFT , CTRL , ALT … and a couple of Functions (like F8 for ortho).
A mouse with like 8 mappable buttons on the thumb area would be the first thing…
Then for some operations you have to press 2 or more modifier keys simultaneously… maybe a foot pedal usb?
I use a 3d mouse all the time and imo is way faster and more accurate than not having it… but also the input is a “single input” , a static orientation of the mouse elastic knob, no extra inputs like doing clicks, scrolls or else.
What I mean is that controlling the 3d mouse actually require less complexity than a normal 2d mouse. You can control it with a closed fist and once you adapted to it you do everything anyway. A hand without fingers can probably achieve the same (just find a way to “suck” the palm on it)
I guess that if someone lose hand and forearm but still have the first stump near the shoulder could maybe give it a go and see how it goes.
Or simply use it with a feet 
Using an extra hardware for navigating the 3d space would make up a lot from having lost an arm…