Inventor & Spacepilot <Enter>

beefweasel · Post by **beefweasel** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:28 am

Hi,
Is there any way of assigning one of the buttons to work as the Enter Key when using my space pilot with inventor 2008?

Thanks,
Charlie.

Post by **jwick** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:51 am

Sure, but it will take a little work on your part.

You need to edit the 3DxInventor.scg file (or one of your Inventor custom userXX.scg config files) with wordpad or another Unicode-capable editor.

Add the following line somewhere in the middle of the BUTTON_NUMBERS array:

{ UI_RETURN_KEY, "Return Key", 69 },

This will add a new "Return Key" option in the button comboboxes that you can now assign to any SP button.

beefweasel · Post by **beefweasel** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:49 am

Thanks for the reply.
Can you please tell me where I might find the 3DxInventor.scg file?

Post by **jwick** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:03 am

Typically: c:\program files\3Dconnexion\3dconnexion 3dxsoftware\3dxware\en_us\profiles\default

(US English installation via 3DxSoftware mega installer)

beefweasel · Post by **beefweasel** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:42 am

Thanks,

I have now found the .scg file, copied it to my desktop, opened it with wordpad and added the line as suggested.
Maybe this is a daft question but I presume it matters how the file is saved? If I save the file with wordpad it is no longer showing as a .scg file?

beefweasel · Post by **beefweasel** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:24 am

Anyone able to talk me through this please?

Fred · Post by **Fred** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 5:48 am

Did you try renaming the file by removing the .txt and change it back to .scg
(Don't forget to copy it back to the original location.)

beefweasel · Post by **beefweasel** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:32 am

woo hoo! success, thanks all.