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Questions and answers about 3Dconnexion devices on Windows.

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Phosphorous
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Post by Phosphorous »

Apologies accepted! I have buried the hatchet now :wink: Thank you very much and congratulations to the 3Dconnexion team for delivering a highly reliable and working driver for 3DS Max 2010. I just tested my Space Pilot and it's working like a charm!

Now back to some great 3D navigation and by the way, I'll continue to highly endorse all your products to my friends and on the 3D forums that I subscribe to.

Thanks again! 8)
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Post by malojo »

Hi,

Thanks for the driver, thanks for 3dsmax 2010 support and also thanks for CS4 Extended 64 bit support ( also for bugfixing a 3d rotation issue :) ).
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Post by malojo »

Hi,
one tip to our max lions here as me. If you experience a very unsmooth behavior of the 3d device ( you see in the upper left edge that it switches between the 3dxcamera and the perspective view for a period of time )
you can do some things to fix this:
a ) use a common camera
b ) Disable Wireframe View
c ) Enable Hardware Shading ( this is much faster )
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Post by Phosphorous »

I also experienced blazing speed when I disabled the viewcubes, no need to have them using up the system resources when you use one of these 3D controllers :twisted:

If your scene becomes real intense with geometry, it's bound to slow down your navigation. If that's the case you can enable the use of layers and hide the finished areas of your scene and continue to enjoy your controller and your modelling!

Ahhh, it feels like riding a Cadillac again ~ :wink:
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Post by amelia »

I am doing some tests on Windows 7-7100 using a very dense scene.

3dsmax 2009 + 3dconnexion 3.6.11: works fine, smooth and fast.
3dsmax 2010 + 3dconnexion 3.7.12: does nothing, the viewcube blinks.

The work is a PCB-3D rendering, build with script generated by a PCB-layout program with the following build time (seconds):

3dsmax 2009: 60.93
3dsmax 2010: 27.95

The Autodesk made a great improvement.
The 3dconnexion NO.

My settings in both cases are the same.

http://rapidshare.com/files/230548339/PCB1.rar.html (only 10 dw)
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Post by malojo »

Hi amelia,
I can confirm this in your scene on my system ( 3dsmax 2010 64 bit Vista ).
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Post by DMAXMAN »

Does anyone have a solution as to why the 3D Conexion device (Space Pilot) stopped working in Max 2009 once the new device driver (3-7-12) was installed? The viewport just locks up after a few minutes of use. Likewise, I really have not tested to see if the device is working properly in 2010 either.

I installed the new driver so that I could start using the device with Max 2010, but I have some rush jobs that I'm only trusting to 2009 at the moment, & without the use of my Space Pilot things seem to be dragging.
Space Pilot
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Post by dom »

malojo wrote:Hi,
one tip to our max lions here as me. If you experience a very unsmooth behavior of the 3d device ( you see in the upper left edge that it switches between the 3dxcamera and the perspective view for a period of time )
you can do some things to fix this:
a ) use a common camera
b ) Disable Wireframe View
c ) Enable Hardware Shading ( this is much faster )

also, do not work with the select-object tool, this slow down viewport (why ?), using select and move/rotate/scale is much better for viewport redraw (???).
Displaying statistics also slow down, but the worst issue is when you use the UVWunwrap with medium and high poly models, the redraw goes so slow that is pratically impossible to work with the 3D mouse ( 1 frame/3sec ). :(
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Post by Fred »

Ive reported the Blinking issue when in Perspective mode.
Temp solution for now click f4 to not show edges this should allow the movement again.

Thankyou to Chris for the above information.
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Post by kevnich00 »

Using the new 3.7.12 with a Space Traveler on Max 2010

The device has become useless. Will only operate in wireframe mode, but very slowly. Max 2009, which used to work, operates in the same slow behavior now.
Perspective viewport with shading...nothing happens but the screen blinks.

Please say an update is in the works!?
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Post by Fred »

click the f4 key and see if it responds
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Post by kevnich00 »

No, it made no difference. Now the device has just stopped working at all.

Where are the older drivers? It appears they were wiped clean from my drive when the new ones were installed and only the new one is available for download. I need to work today and I can use Max 2009! Please supply a link to the last version.
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Post by Fred »

When drivers are updated the old driver gets removed.

As i stated earlier ive reported the issue.
post your OS version, 3dsmax 2009 version.
The programmers read the forums and will need any info you can provide.
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Post by kevnich00 »

WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD THE LAST VERSION???

WIn XP Pro sp2
2009 with all the updates service pack
2010 with the only hotfix I know of.

Again, where can I download the last version?
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Post by ngomes »

Hi kevnich00,
Again, where can I download the last version?
<del>3DxSoftware v. 3.6.11 is available from the "archive (legacy folder" section for you 3D mouse in the Driver Downloads page.</del>

It will be kept in there until we have determined the cause of the reported performance issue in 3.7.12.

Update: a new version of the 3ds Max (v. 9 - 2010) is now available with a fix for #5063. Version 3.6.11 has been removed from the "Archive".
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