3dconnexion Space Navigator 3D mouse (ndof or N-dof) in Blender 2.5x

Hi all,

In Blender 2.49b, there pops a couple of icons when I connect my device, and I can set dominant axis and also can easily switch the mode from navigation to object manipulation.

I don’t see these icons appearing in 2.5x, and I couldn’t find the way of switching to the object manipulation mode. Is this not possible yet in 2.5x, or if possible, how can I do so?

As a future feature request/suggestion, it may be nice if the right button can be set to change the navigation mode, as the left button already opens the NDOF menu.

Thanks.

Hi again,

Thirty-something views and no replies? Does this mean that I cannot use my SpaceNavigator to rotate objects in Blender 2.5x?

Thanks.

Have you read the other threads on these forums discussing the use of a 3dconnexion 3d mouse in 2.59 ?

Yes, I did a search and read the ones that came up. Nothing about switching to object manipulation mode in the ones I read. If I missed one that does, would you be so kind to send me the link to it?

ok, since there are no replies to my previous message, I guess such a thread does not exist.

Can someone at least confirm that this functionality (object manipulation with a 3D mouse) doesn’t exist, so that, I will stop looking for a way to do it and just wait for an updated release?

BTW, if this really is the case, I just would like to say that when a “new and improved” updated version of a software comes out, and it does not include a functionality that the previous version had, it baffles me. Then again, I am aware of the fact that this is not a commercial product, and built by volunteers on their spare time, so I should cut some slack. Still, it’d be nice to be able to do what I could do in the “old” version also in the new one.

Thanks.

This hasn’t been fixed yet?!
Sorry to necro this thread, but this problem still exists. If anyone figures out a way to manipulate objects using NDOF, I would like to know!