I had told you before, quite a few days ago, that I was anxiously waiting for the arrival of a demo unit of 3DConnexion’s new SpacePilot PRO. Well, it arrived a couple of days after I wrote that post, and I’ve been playing with it ever since, trying to find out if it’s all I was hoping it would be. Unfortunately for me, I ran into some trouble and so it was that this particular hardware revi...

OK, so this is one of those really cool things about being a blogger and attending an event such as SolidWorks World as “press”: you get to see all these awesome new gadgets before they’re made available to the public or even announced.  The hard part is that you have to keep it a secret, and you can’t tell a single soul (not even your aunt Gladys if you have one) about all the wonders yo...

This is really a post that began a few weeks ago, when I was kindly given the opportunity of trying out one of 3DConnexion’s new 3D mice for SolidWorks 2009, the SpacePilot. For those of you that haven’t heard of it or don’t know what the big deal of a 3D mouse is, this device allows you to manipulate 3D models and scenes using six degrees of freedom, which is practically impossible ...