Anybody using the new space pilot?

[one shot]

Hey everyone.

I'm looking to replace my old space puck and I was wanting a Spaceball 5000 till I saw the new Space pilot. It looks really cool and I want one....bad. But, I would like to know if anyone has gotten their hands on one yet.

linky

[kinglouie V]

seems like for the money you'd be better off with this one here.

 

Better ergonomics and it does lots of the same stuff but maybe not all. May save $ on carpal tunnel treatment.

[maestro]

I use a spaceball 4000 FLX all the time. The company paid abut $300.00 for this one. I bought one to use at home on Ebay for $80.00.

[kccadcam]

I had a full blown demo of MasterCam X with the Space Pilot, ( thanks Tim, Mcam Northwest)and all I can say is WOW! I want one so bad I'm beggin'....

 

Ergonomics is exellent, the programmable buttons are very cool. the new puck is very smooth and controllable.

 

They have a 14 day trial. hmmmmmmm

[mold100]

So whats the difference if its Academic? You do not need to show proof of a student to purchase it.

[gcode]

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You do not need to show proof of a student to purchase it

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I bought a Spaceball from them at the educational price and they required a student ID before they would ship. They took my money, then asked for the student ID. Good thing I

had one

 

A guy here at work bought a Space Pilot and loves it. He took it home before I had a chance to play with it though.

 

They are available on Amazon.com for $440

[gcode]

I got my Space Pilot in this week.

Dell has them on sale for $370.

The motion in Mastercam and SolidWorks is excellent.

When you set a center of rotation in X, it stays there till you change it or close X.

 

As others have reported, none of the buttons work in Mastercam. (V9 or X)

 

3D Connexion Customer Support has been helping me with a SpaceMouse/CATIA issue and they called me this morning.

 

I asked him about Mastercam/Space Pilot.

He said the current Mastercam drivers are V7 vintage. He also said they have been working closely with Mastercam on the X project for

over a year and that new drivers will be up on their website next Monday.

I forgot to ask if they'de be backwards compatibale to V9, but I'll find out next week and

post the results.

[Ken Erman from CNC Software Inc.]

Gcode - I worked with them to assign our macros to the programable keys using their macros, it works good. Their new drivers will have Mastercam X options to load.

[one shot]

GCODE

What do you think of the ergonomics?

I have a Spaceball 5000 on loan till my Space Pilot comes in and Kingloui may have a point.

The Pilot does look a bit uncomfortable.

What do you think???

Anybody else have one yet???

[Steve Zirtzman]

gcode,

Did your SpacePilot come with a sculpted palm rest? You can register for a free optional sculpted palm rest with 3dconnexion. I had no complaints with the flat palm rest, but this one is much better.

[cadcam]

I have the Space Travler and love it, most likey by monday will have the Sapce Pilot as it is shipping now.

We just became a Var for them and during are intro to X Seminars I got rebates for any that buy's from me during the Seminars.

 

Jen when will we see the latest drivers with X in them.

 

Ken ask Doug how he like the Space Travler I had at the last show with him.

[gcode]

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when will we see the latest drivers with X in them

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The new drivers are up on the 3D Connexion website

They come with 2 different configs for X

I've been very busy and haven't spent any time

trying to program buttons, but the default configs

work very well in X ( and SolidWorks too.)

 

My sculpted palmrest came in last week.

[HevyMetl]

I get my new spacepilot on Monday. I will give it a try on ProWF2 and MCX and give a report from a notso power user.

[Josh_Petitt]

I just hooked up my new Space Pilot. Does anyone know about new drivers for MCAM X? I couldn't find them on the 3DConnexion website.

[gcode]

There are no special MC drivers.

Download and install the latest drivers

(v2-6-5)

The Mastercam X drivers will install automatically.

[HevyMetl]

I have to manually load the cofiguration the first time I start up MC after a installation of a new driver. From then on it automatically recognizes and loads the proper configuration.

[Guest]

With MC as the active program, click on the icon in your systray, create your setting sthe way you want, save them and everytime you start MC and it is the active program, your settings will be the avtive one.

 

I have configurations for SOlidwaork, UGNX, Mastercam, which ever program is the one on the screen those settings are the active ones.