Rapidform XOR Problems

gknapik · Post by **gknapik** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:53 am

We've recently upgraded to the latest version of Rapidform XOR (Release: Rapidform XOR2 SP1 Build Version: 2, 5, 2, 30 ). In the previous version everything worked fine, but now a number of axes have been reversed and no matter how high I set the Tilt/Spin/Roll speed, it is still too slow. I've tried this on multiple machines with both a SpaceExplorer and a SpaceNavigator with the same results. I have run the application wizard and have the latest application software installed.

Thanks for any help you might provide.

Greg

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:57 am

Rapidform is Natively supported by Inus Technolgy Send a email to them to let them know of the issues you are experiencing since they updated the application.

Did you rerun the driver after updating the Software?

Post by **jwick** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:15 am

If the Rapidform executable name changed then the driver won't know what configuration file to use with the new name. If you had a special config file that you were using with the old executable, you may have to reselect that in the 3DxWare GUI.

gknapik · Post by **gknapik** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:38 am

Thanks for your quick replies.

I reran the driver and still had the same problems.

The Rapidform executable name didn't change, it still was pulling the correct configuration file.

I will contact Inus and post when I hear a response.

Thanks!

Greg

skinimin · Post by **skinimin** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:32 am

Hi Greg,

Did you get this issue resolved ? I have just purchased a Spacenavigator to use with Rapidworks 2.3.0 ( Same as Rapidform ) and am having the same issues.

It is a real pain as Rapidform is in the supported application list.

gknapik · Post by **gknapik** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:44 am

No it hasn't been resolved. I spoke with the folks at Rapidform a number of times and it still isn't any better. I was told if I had the latest 3dconnexion drivers and Rapidform version it had been tested and should work. Unfortunately, it doesn't and I haven't heard back about it since April.

Greg

Post by **jwick** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:58 am

I don't see that we ship a config file specifically for RapidForm. You can create one and make adjustments in it to fix the problems you are seeing.

To create one, enter the application then make some change in the 3DxWare GUI. When you exit the application the driver will automatically save a .scg file (called userXX.scg) under your %appdata%/3dconnexion/3dxware/profiles dir. You can see what config file it is by hovering over the 3Dx icon in the systray while your application is running.

You can edit that file in notepad to make changes.
To increase the scale factors of for your device, change the TUNING_SCALARS entries under your device ([SPACENAVIGATOR]). The entries are Tx, Ty, Tz, Rx, Ry, Rz respectively.
To change the direction, you can just change the sign of these numbers if you wish. There are other ways, but this is the easiest.

gknapik · Post by **gknapik** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:20 pm

I've found the .scg file, but changing the scale factor values doesn't seem to have an effect. Changing the sign works fine, but I have both increased and decreased the tuning scalars with no appreciable change in the sensitivity. Is there something else I should be messing with as well?

Thanks!

Greg

slaeufer · Post by **slaeufer** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:55 am

I have had a look to the newest version (2.5.6.0) and seen the issues which you've reported. We forwarded this to Rapidform and hope they'll fix these in the next update/version.