Best of Show award goes to 3Dconnexion SpacePilot
A
3D Connexion product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jul 14, 2006
TenLinks.com recognises SpacePilot as a vital element of the 3D design desktop
3Dconnexion has announced that its SpacePilot navigation input device was honoured with the only Best of Show award following the PTC/User World Event 2006.
TenLinks.com, a leading web portal for CAD and Engineering information, gives only one award per show.
The award decision was based on the productivity benefits and value that the SpacePilot affords.
"The ease with which the SpacePilot allows the MCAD User to move around a solid model is most impressive," comments Roopinder Tara, editor of TenLinks.com.
"We saw it being used with Pro/Engineer, but the SpacePilot is equally at home in other MCAD applications".
"The device so effortlessly combines zoom, pan and rotate commands that viewing is elevated to another level".
"This would be especially useful in inspecting complicated assemblies.
The adaptive SpacePilot is designed to improve the ways in which professionals work with CAD, content creation and other 3D applications.
Product developers who use a SpacePilot device in conjunction with their mouse and keyboard can enhance workflows and make interaction with software faster, easier and more comfortable.
They can simultaneously pan, zoom and rotate a model with one hand, while creating and editing with the mouse in the other hand.
As the User transitions from mode to mode within an application, or switches from one application to another, the SpacePilot automatically detects the change and updates its pre-programmed function buttons, displaying the associated program commands on its bright LCD screen.
The SpacePilot is customisable, allowing Users to map their own preferred software functions to its buttons.
"We're delighted to receive this honour from TenLinks.com".
"The recognition is testament to the great boost in productivity offered by our 3D navigation devices," said Rory Dooley, president of 3Dconnexion.
"Many of our customers spend 90 percent of their day using CAD software and they tell us our 3D navigation devices not only help them become more productive, but also make their jobs more fun".
"That's the reward that really motivates us to keep pioneering these great tools.
Also at the PTC/User World event, 3Dconnexion announced the SpacePilot's enhanced integration with Pro/Engineer software (Wildfire version 2.0 and higher), PTC's flagship product, which provides product lifecycle management solutions to more than 40,000 companies.
In addition to its support of Pro/Engineer, the SpacePilot works with popular MCAD programs such as SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Dassault Catia and UGS NX and Solid Edge.
Not what you're looking for? Search the site.
Browse by category
-
Capital Equipment (3,527)
- Capital Equipment (1)
- Compressors and Air Treatment (543)
- Electrical hardware (131)
- Electronics Manufacturing, Tools, Instruments (192)
- Machinery and Production Equipment (1,133)
- Manufacturing Machinery and Plant Equipment (478)
- Production line blowers and fans (74)
- Robotics, Handling and Storage (975)
- Consultancy and Services (924)
-
Control and Instrumentation (5,134)
- Cabling, Conduit, Signal Conditioning (817)
- CNC and Motion Controllers (190)
- Control and Instrumentation (3)
- HMIs/Operator Interfaces (297)
- Logic Controllers, Timers and Relays (96)
- Mid-range and Large PLCs (203)
- Plant- and Machine-Wide Communications (1,206)
- Plantwide control (1,354)
- Power Supplies, Uninterruptible Power (576)
- Smaller-Sized PLCs (392)
-
Drives, Motors and Controls (3,442)
- Drives, Motors and Controls (2)
- Industrial Drives/Controls (1,290)
- Industrial Motors (502)
- Linear Drives and Motors (121)
- Precision Motors and Gears (432)
- Stepper and Servo Drives, Motors, Controls (1,093)
-
Electrical and Electronic Equipment Design (4,314)
- Batteries, chargers and circuit protection (584)
- Connectors, Terminals, Busbars, Slip Rings (720)
- Electrical and Electronic Components (650)
- Electrical and Electronic Equipment Design (3)
- Electrical and Electronic Subassemblies (377)
- Enclosures and Equipment Cooling Fans (722)
- Knobs, Handles and Enclosure Hardware (430)
- PCs and Embedded Systems (828)
-
Engineering Design Software (6,374)
- 2D CAD software (203)
- 3D CAD software (1,195)
- CAM, CNC, production management software (583)
- Data, document management software (323)
- Electrical design software (167)
- Engineering Design Software (17)
- FEA and structural analysis software (377)
- File conversion software, data capture (358)
- Fluid, thermal, noise, vibration software (339)
- Materials design and moulding design software (153)
- Maths, charting, statistics, QA software (325)
- PLM and collaboration software (664)
- Process, instrumentation, automation software (269)
- Publishing and documentation software (234)
- Rendering, visualisation, styling software (208)
- Simulation, modelling, validation software (959)
-
Engineering Industry News, Resources (6,214)
- Electronic Resources for Engineers (278)
- Engineering Business News, Views (388)
- Engineering Conferences (438)
- Engineering Education, Resources, Standards (850)
- Engineering Exhibitions, Events (577)
- Engineering Guides, Newsletters (367)
- Engineering Industry Developments, Awards (636)
- Engineering Industry News, Resources (4)
- Engineering Industry Reports, Surveys (597)
- Engineering Recruitment, Employment (219)
- Engineering Seminars (419)
- Engineering Training Courses (458)
- Health and Safety Consultancy, Software (180)
- Health and Safety Events, Training, News (285)
- Health and Safety Legislation (403)
- Health and Safety Strategy, Risk Assessment (115)
- Machine Building (4,626)
-
Materials and Processing (3,037)
- Materials and components (2,268)
- Materials and Processing (5)
- Materials processing and testing (292)
- Rapid Prototyping (472)
-
Monitoring, Measurement and Quality (5,671)
- Data Acquisition Hardware and PC I/O Boards (491)
- Data acquisition Software and Communications (505)
- Data loggers (428)
- Electrical and Electronic Testing, PAT Equipment (644)
- Form/co-ordinate, optical, vision instruments (763)
- Gauges, Indicators and Instruments (449)
- Materials testing equipment (438)
- Monitoring, Measurement and Quality (1)
- Telecomms/network test equipment, software etc (159)
- Testing and Calibration Services and Information (521)
- Testing, analysing and monitoring equipment (1,272)
-
Powertrain Design (3,718)
- Bearings (985)
- Chains and belts (333)
- Gears, brakes, couplings and engines (1,479)
- Hydraulic Components (475)
- Lubricants (441)
- Powertrain Design (4)
-
Sensors (7,299)
- Accelerometers and Vibration Sensors (449)
- Barcode Sensors (103)
- Flowmeters and Flow Sensors (646)
- Gas, Chemical, Radiation, Magnetic Sensors (292)
- Humidity and Environmental Sensors (158)
- Level Sensors and Leak Detectors (538)
- Linear Position Sensors (416)
- Loadcells, Force Sensors, Torque Sensors (731)
- Pressure sensors (641)
- Proximity Sensors (715)
- Rotary Position, Tilt and Angular Sensors (563)
- Sensors (12)
- Temperature sensors (622)
- Vision and Colour Sensors (1,413)
- Small Mechanical Components, Joining, Tools (2,053)
- Valves, Pumps, Process Hardware (3,729)
