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SpacePilot Pro Mouse Makes CAD Seem Cool

Posted 04/17/09 at 01:54:37 PM  by Paul Lilly

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In what's being billed as "Design Excellence for Engineers," 3DConnexion, maker of 3D input peripherals, launched the SpacePilot Pro this week. It's one of the grooviest looking mice we've ever seen and comes with a ton of goodies for CAD professionals, including an integrated color LCD display.

"The SpacePilot Pro's LCD Worldflow Assistant gives at-a-glance visibility, whether it's email, calendar events, or RSS feeds," said Deiter Neujahr, 3DConnexions president. "It's push technology but the user can easily customize what they do and don't want to see. The intention is to focus you on your design work, with fewer interruptions to your workflow and less clutter on your main display."

Other features include keyboard modifiers (ESC, CTRL, ALT, SHIFT), 3D mouse keys, a SpaceNavigator knob capable of left/right, up/down, forward/backward, tilt, spin, and roll maneuvers, function keys, several applets, and a bunch more.

Gamers need not apply, but if you're into CAD, the svelte SpacePilot Pro might be just what you're looking for, provided you're willing to drop $500 on an input peripheral.

Full review of the mouse here.

Image Credit: 3DConnexion

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TAGS: mouse, Peripherals, hardware, input device, spacepilot pro, 3dconnecsion, cad
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avatarWhoa! What a mouse! You are

Submitted by Milka86 on Sun, 11/08/2009 - 6:16pm

Whoa! What a mouse! You are good at designing with CAD. Why not joining Freelancer.com to do some product design projects? You will make a decent income there. Use this code "3DPROTOTYPE" to get more advantages from the site.

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avatarstupid mouse

Submitted by dry white toast on Sun, 04/19/2009 - 8:02am

Any one that uses any Autodesk Autocad knows that typing is a hell of a lot faster than using a mouse to click and drag, especialy when precision is neccissary. I really don't see much value (esp. not $500 worth) using this mouse within Solidworks either. With one hand on a simple two button mouse and the other on the keyboard, on can access any tools you may need at a moments notice. If you really want to get fancy, get a better mouse with a few extra buttons (though I'm not sure how much functionality that would truely add). And if you don't want to clog up yourscreen with a bunch of garbage you don't need at the time, get a second monitor, it does me wonders!

  (I use both programs 5 days a week)

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avatarSupperrrr

Submitted by web-tasarım on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 11:30am

wonderful mouse

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