Adeon Writer

I've had my SpaceNavigator 3D mouse for 4 years now but I've never used it for anything other than SecondLife.

I'm starting to make mesh homes in Google Sketchup, and my biggest time waster is the awkward keyboard camera controls, makes it impossibly hard to maneuver inside complex geometry.

I know SpaceNavigator supposedly works with Sketchup, but see no options for it even after instating the plugin that came on the SpaceNav's disk. Has anyone done this?

If I could move my camera in Sketchup with SpaceNav like I can in SL, I'd increase productivity twentyfold >_>

Fluffy

Well I can definitely confirm that the SpaceNav works with Sketchup 8 running on Win7, it's been a while since I installed sketchup but I don't remember having to mess with anything to get them working together.

I noticed that google throws up quite a few results relating to spacenav/sketchup issues, but most of the solutions seem to be OS dependent. According to some threads I just read a few people have had success with manually copying the driver files and script into the sketchup plugins folder (you should have a ruby file called 3DxSketchUp.rb in there as well as a folder named 3DxSketchUp which contains 3DxSketchUp.dll and some images and help files).

Good luck getting it working, it's definitely worth persevering. I know I'd be as lost in Maya without my 3D mouse as I would be in Photoshop without my graphics tablet.

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Adeon Writer

Ah, it seems I no longer have the plugin installed. I couldn't find it on their site. Hopefully I don't need the disk (long gone) or I'm screwed.

Fluffy

You should be able to find all the space navigator driver files here. From what I've read in forum posts, etc. all the files necessary for getting the spacenav to work with sketchup should be included in the standard driver file.

Adeon Writer

Thanks! I got it working. I think I'll get flying with mesh easily now. Thanks a ton!