The 3Dconnexion Help app is not very helpful either. This speaks volumes and is understandable because while on one hand the forum leaves users in the dark about whether Blender is supported by 3D mice at all on the Mac, the support for other applications is quite limited. The only forum topic that is more populair is titled ‘What app would you like to see supported on Mac OS X?’. This makes you wonder how dedicated to their 3D mice 3Dconnexion really is. Since it started september 22 nd, 2007 it was viewed over 67,000 times.
The 3Dconnexion Mac OS X forum features a promising titled topic ‘ Got problems with Blender? Read here.‘ but it doesn’t offer a fix.
Blenders online manual doesn’t have any information at all about 3D mice. Some people have no problem with this approach, but for me it is quite a deal breaker.įor quite a while it seemed that this would break Two-Handed Power Mode for Mac users, because it is impossible to manually keep your object centered in the screen while working on it. In Blender the SpaceNavigator can only be used to manipulate the view in Camera Mode / ‘First Person Shooter Mode’: You can move your point of view, but not the object you are looking at. Object Mode is the opposite of Camera Mode, where the view reacts as if you were in a First Person Shooter: The 3D-mouse moves the point of view instead of the object. It’s the default view in Google’s SketchUp and the 3DxWare demo software. This type of view is called Object Mode, because the object is the center of your movement axis.
Another example is to orbit the object while selecting planes. This seems to work fine with Windows, but not in the Mac OS version of Blender (I tested version 2.77). You can rotate your object with the 3D-mouse with one hand while rotating it and zooming in and out with the other using a mouse or Wacom pen. Using a 3D-mouse and a 2D-mouse or Wacom pen at the same time is called ‘ Two-Handed Power Mode (video)‘ by Nathan Letwory. Blender is specifically mentioned on the company’s website as ‘Certified’ for their 3D-mice and 3DxWare Mac software. A 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator 3D-mouse is said to greatly enhance 3D-software.
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