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[...]Pro:
* It indeed feels cool to control Google Earth with it.
* To a degree, senses your force, i.e. the further you push the knob, the faster the object on the screen moves, although the gradations are few.
Contra:
* It feels very flimsy. I'm afraid it would break in no time.
* It is VERY HARD to make it do precisely what you want. For example, when you try to pan, you will eventually fall into tilting, even though you didn't mean to. Tilting similarly tends to turn into zooming, and so on.
* The springs are too tight. After just about 10 minutes, my muscles are aching.
* The device isn't supported "natively". As you know, you can plug in any mouse, joystick, keyboard, etc., and Windows will recognize the device and make use of it immediately. Not with this one, it requires software download (the CD has obsolete version)
* That software download size is ENORMOUS!!! 100+ Mb!!! Come on guys, the whole 3D Studio package took less than that a couple years ago, but 100MB for a freaking DRIVER??? You oughtta be kidding.
So all in all, you better buy a 6-axis joystick.
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I won this product in a computer aided design contest, and I eagerly awaited receiving it. When I did, I immediately wondered what the point of it was. I work as a design engineer, and most of my work is done in SolidWorks. But I just don't see any real use for this product, even if it worked well...
The basic concept of this device is you use your non-mouse hand to control the orientation of an object in 3d space using the SpaceNaviagor, while still using the mouse to do other things. This is not possible. You really can only do one at a time (unless you can somehow look in two different places at once). If it was significantly difficult to orient an object with a mouse, maybe this product would be useful (save you some time opening up menus, etc), however, it's not. Simply by holding down the middle mouse button I can rotate the view of the object with my mouse in Solid Works. Most other programs have similar shortcuts. It's also a lot easier to use a mouse than with the SpaceNavigator. I don't think this is a matter of a learning curve either. It is just hard to use the SpaceNavigator.
The product is heavy, but not heavy enough. You end up lifting it off the table while using it, which gets frustrating. It's also both too sensitive, and not sensitive enough, all at the same time.
I like the look of this thing. I like having it on my desk ("Wow, that guy must be good, look at that fancy mouse thing!"). But I don't like using it, and I can't recommend it to anyone, definitely not at this price. If I had bought it I would have returned it, but it's free so I'll keep it.
In the end, it works, but not well. It has good driver support and most every program I load up supports it (Rhino, SolidWorks, Inventor, etc), but it's a product with no real market segment.
PS-I did have fun flying through google earth with it though ;-)
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I got this unit to work with my computer at home. I work with Solidworks and photoshop and had read about this unit. Well I got it and it is great. It takes a little getting used to, at least for me, in solidworks, and I love the way you can zoom in and out so easily in photoshop. It also works great with the image viewer that comes with windows, and google earth. Considering the home edition is cheaper than the mouse I own, I think this is a great addition.
No problems after a month, installation was easy, and it looks cool on the desk.
Mike
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This is an awesome little brother to the larger navigator which offers more features like programmable buttons, even know this has two buttons on it. Very smooth when 3D modeling, easy to use & setup.
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I own the space pilot and it is wonderful, this is just too light and lifts off the ground when I use it.
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