spacenavigator PE "device not found" in catiaR16

acwitz · Post by **acwitz** » Mon Oct 20, 2008 6:13 pm

I just bought a SpaceNavigator PE and downloaded/installed the latest drivers from the 3dconnexion website. installation went smoothly but for some reason my catiaV5 R16 says "device not found" in the 3dxdevice toolbar. I believe the spacemouse is functional because it works fine with solidworks. Any ideas?.. would be great..very frustrated..

Post by **ngomes** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 3:18 am

Hi acwitz,

Most likely than not you have an environment variable that disables part of CATIA and prevents the use of 3D mice in the application.

Have a look in our KB here. Follow the "Applications" and "CATIA" links.

acwitz · Post by **acwitz** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:09 pm

I read the posts and I tried entering new environment variables but to no success. All that I got catia to do was not to open a product upon startup, Which is nice, but my spacenavigator PE still does not work. Is there anything else I can do? I do not want to return it, but I do not know what else to try? Anymore ideas?

Thank you

Post by **rstadie** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 5:01 am

Hi acwitz,

Do you see "ADL_ODT_IN" in your Catia Environment Editor? Do you have any firewall enabled?

acwitz · Post by **acwitz** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 3:35 pm

there is no ADL_ODT_IN found in my catia environment editor. Should there be? And what would my firewall settings have to be at? I think that they are set to allow..?

Post by **rstadie** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:00 am

ADL_ODT_IN should be not defined, this is correct.
You can try to disable the windows firewall to see if it makes a difference.

How to turn off the Windows XP firewall (as Administrator):

A) Click on "Start - run"
B) Type "cmd" and click on Ok
C) Input the following:

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netsh firewall set opmode disable

You can reenable it with the following command:

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netsh firewall set opmode enable