Josh told me that Vectorworks is fully supported from the Navigator to the SpaceMouse Enterprise, which means the customizable tools which contextually load into the LED guide display on the SpaceMouse Enterprise are fully supported as well. The numbered buttons corresponding to the LED grid. The former product brings Vectorworks tools down near the hands of the user, similar to the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro but not with an active touch LED screen. 3Dconnexion has a range of SpaceMouse devices that combine the 3D navigation widget of SpaceNavigator with a wrist pad type device loaded with customizable buttons, including a wireless option like the SpaceNavigator for laptop computers.Ġ2 – In this image, the SpaceMouse Enterprise is shown at left with the CadMouse seen on the right. The big thing Vectorworks has done in re-establishing support for 3Dconnexion is making the decision to support the enterprise pro products, things like the flagship SpaceMouse Enterprise.
And when we saw the new products we realized we needed to upgrade our support and provide a better user experience.” “We eventually got back in touch with them, and they reintroduced us to a whole bunch of new products they had created. “The product for us kind of stagnated over time,” he says. Going Enterpriseįast forward ten years and BIM has largely taken over the AEC industry and 3D modeling is done daily by architects. But the novelty of 3D mice was just that, and while they provided interactive power for heavy modelers a decade ago, many CAD users were still firmly entrenched in the world of 2D CAD. “We started our relationship with them back around Vectorworks 2008,” says Joshua Loy, user interaction manager at Vectorworks, Inc.
The product at that time was pretty phenomenal, with our closing recommendation stating: “After using the SpaceNavigator with SketchUp for several days the thought of not using it becomes horrific.”Ġ1 – Vectorworks’ latest patch included powerful new support for 3Dconnexion 3D mice devices, including their entire product line.Ī year after that review-which is ten years ago now-the Vectorworks folks took to the SpaceNavigator as well.
Architosh originally reviewed this product back in 2007 and awarded it a rare 5 out of 5 perfect rating. Their SpaceNavigator product is the most famous and most accessible price-wise.
Now for readers who may not be aware, 3Dconnexion is a hardware company devoted to making 3D mice for computers.
When Vectorworks, Inc., introduced their Service Pack 3 for Vectorworks 2017 earlier this year, the feature-heavy update had some big ticket news-worthy items that may have overshadowed the announcement about renewed 3Dconnexion 3D mice support. That left many Mac users drooling and often out of luck. It used to be that all the nifty power CAD user hardware-outside of Apple’s tank-crushing old Power Macs-was built specifically (or first) for Windows users.