3D navigation device works with Pro/Engineer

A 3D Connexion product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jun 9, 2006

3Dconnexion has announced enhanced integration of its award-winning SpacePilot 3D navigation device with PTC's flagship product Pro/Engineer.

3Dconnexion has announced enhanced integration of its award-winning SpacePilot 3D navigation device with PTC's flagship product Pro/Engineer.

PTC provides product lifecycle management solutions to more than 40,000 companies worldwide.

Pro/Engineer customers using a SpacePilot stand to realise significant productivity gains and ergonomics benefits.

SpacePilot is an intelligent navigation and input device for 3D computing.

The device improves the way CAD professionals work within Pro/Engineer's 3D environments and modes, including Assembly, Part and others.

As the user transitions between modes the SpacePilot automatically updates its function buttons with available Pro/Engineer commands, which are displayed on the LCD screen.

SpacePilot is fully customisable and any Pro/Engineer MapKeys can be assigned to its programmable buttons.

Unlike those who work with just a mouse and keyboard, design engineers using a SpacePilot can pan, zoom and rotate their 3D models while simultaneously editing and annotating with the mouse.

The advanced sensing and adapting mechanisms, combined with other SpacePilot functions, such as the "quick view" commands top, right, left, front and iso (executed at the touch of a button), enhance workflow and make interaction with Pro/Engineer software faster, easier and more comfortable.

"The enhanced integration between the SpacePilot and Pro/Engineer has made my life easier and has helped boost our design productivity", says Eric Mills, Product Designer for Kelly Aerospace.

"I can rotate my model screen view while making exploded views of my assemblies, something you cannot do with mouse alone".

"Also, it is really nice to add MapKeys to the configuration buttons".

"All of this has surely translated into time and cost savings for the company".

The new SpacePilot capabilities are available for Pro/Engineer Wildfire version 2.0 and higher.

SpacePilot software for Pro/Engineer is included in 3Dconnexion's software package, 3DxSoftware for Windows, available for immediate free download from the 3Dconnexion website.

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