- #What is trackball and spaceball how to#
- #What is trackball and spaceball Pc#
- #What is trackball and spaceball plus#
Has anyone used any of the 3DConnexion products? I have a SpaceBall4000 on the way from ebay (nice and cheap) and wondered if any of my fellow DTers had used any of their stuff. I plan to someday make a proper 3D trackball which allows direct 1:1 mapping of ball rotations to rotations in the computer such a device should be much faster and more accurate than the spaceball for inputing rotation. It is however better than a standard mouse/2d trackball/touchpad/etc. It’s a bit cumbersome and takes getting used to. I personally find that the spacemouse / spaceball / spacepuck / whatever works reasonably well for moving around in 6 degrees of freedom CAD, geometric modeling, etc. a pen input, which you use to input absolute position. This is different from a mouse or trackball or trackpad where a motion indicates some kind of relative position change. Overall it’s like a joystick or a trackpoint or an analog pedal or trigger: you can use it to input velocity or acceleration (and angular velocity or angular acceleration).
#What is trackball and spaceball how to#
Would take some work to figure out how to map the controls though.
These things would be great for controlling flying quadcopters IMO. There was even a Playstation 1 version of the controller at some point, but it didn’t sell well because only a couple of games supported it. It was by far the best controller for playing Descent.
#What is trackball and spaceball Pc#
I believe it's a popular game.įor a while there was a PC game controller made out of these called the SpaceOrb. What else? Well I don't do any CAD work, but I do use it to navigate around a 3D environment moving blocks around to create structures.
#What is trackball and spaceball plus#
A few simple mappings in qjoypad and I have page and line scrolling mapped to different joystick functions on the magellan, plus Ctrl, Alt, Esc, F5, Home/End and others I've forgotten mapped to the buttons for forward/back next/prev tab, close tab, refresh, etc.Īll the basic web and document navigation functions available to one hand with minimal movement. So what have I done with it? I also have a CST trackball which lacks a scroll wheel and any extra buttons for forward/back. I bought an old Magellan model from ebay for 99p in the New Year thinking that it would be a) broken and b) completely unsupported but would make a good fugly retro ornament.Įventually I realised not only that it was fully working but that support is *built-in* on Ubuntu (sudo modprobe magellan) and even that I could assign the 6-axis stick and 9 buttons to virtually any mouse action or keypress using qjoypad from the repos. Apologies for replying to a prehistoric thread but this was one of the first things I found when searching for info about a Spacemouse.
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