I got a new SpaceMouse Compact and have been setting it up for use with ViaCAD Pro v10 and found that the input is so sensitive when moving a model around it moves other axis' when you don't want it to.
There is a way to adjust what is referred to as Dead Zones. For some unknown reason the 3DConnexion software doesn't allow you to adjust this via the Settings UI.
Many of you may already know this but I felt sharing might be helpful as I had to dig for this information.
First I learned the settings are application specific. You have to have ViaCAD running and active while the 3DConnexion Settings are open. You should see 'Concepts' displayed at the top of the Settings window to control the application-specific settings for ViaCAD.
From there you click on Advanced Settings to control the speeds for each axis.
After you complete these step 3DConnexion writes an Concepts.xml file to the user folder in Windows (e.g. C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\3Dconnexion\3DxWare\Cfg).
Using an XML Editor (I used Notepad++). you can edit this file and add the Dead Zone settings for each Axis.
In the <Devices><Device>...</Device><Devices> section there are <Input>...</Input> sections for each axis. You need to add <Deadband>VALUE</Deadband> to each of these to have the SpaceMouse ignore inputs from 0 to the setting you set for Deadband.
EXAMPLE:
<Input>
<ActionID>HIDMultiAxis_X</ActionID>
<Min>-512</Min>
<Max>511</Max>
<Deadband>100</Deadband>
</Input>
A value of 100 seems to work for most of the Axis' but others I had to go as high as 275.
I just kept playing around with these until I got the behavior I liked. Now my SpaceMouse works well with ViaCAD Pro, so well I was able to increase the Speed on many of the axis' which I initially had to lower as the behavior was causing other axis' to move when I didnt' want them to.
I hope this helps someone else and saves them the brain damage of figuring this out. Enjoy!
