SpaceMouse Compact - Includes Carry Case

Mouse is great, but doesn't come with the case. They didn't forget to put it in; the description is just lying.Ordered a return, but I'd have to organise and pay for the shipping myself and then classic it back. Didn't want to wait that long and go through all the hassle so I'll be buying to case separately.Bit of a deflating experience all in all.

This is my second mouse and again NO case. Why say it comes with a case if it doesn't?

Didn't come with the case.

At 285 grams it is heavy enough to be stable - as it needs to be - yet small and compact enough to take it with you if you have several working stations.Used in the left hand, it adds an amazing degree of control to the 3D movements of a drawing that is very intuitive - freeing your RH to select & draw.Once downloaded, the driver program offers practical training in the form of a simple game - very useful.I use this with SketchUp and Autodesk Fusion 360.It packs very neatly and is well protected in its zipped, padded, carrying case which is 8 cm in diameter and 5 cm high.Mine was purchased second hand - which caused a little problem as it was registered to the previous owner - but an explanation via email sorted that out...Expensive? yes - but both fun and useful.

I think it’s great, my first 3D mouse. The quality is excellent, it’s got some heft. I was a little concerned with the price but after seeing and feeling how well built it was the price was justified.It does not play very well with Blender, which is the main reasons I bought it. Rather than tilting the object around like you would expect its more like you are controlling a hovering camera around the object. What a shame. Works great in orthographic mode, but perspective mode leaves a lot of room for improvement. There are some settings people recommended but still didn’t behave the way I wanted. That’s why I gave it 4 stars. The site says it supports Blender but they left out some major details.

I'm using this with with AutoCAD 2018 so that limits my experience.Although not completely integrated with AutoCAD it works pretty well. The driver command list probably needs to be updated to work with 2018. It will not rotate the model in 2d wireframe. The model needs to be rendered to a visualstyle that doesn't show hidden lines in order for hardware acceleration to work with a Nvidia card. I've also experienced problems problems in paperspace. The driver doesn't automatically activate. I keep having to manually activate by starting the navbar and selecting the 2d button.But when the model is rendered in realistic with perspective, wow this thing is great. The best way to inspect a model. Takes a little getting used to, but once you get the hang of it... you'll love it.It probably works better with more advanced 3d software.

I'm using this Space Mouse with Fusion 360. I'm still new at this but I also knew that manipulating a CAD drawing was a pain with just a standard mouse and keyboard. That's why I decided to try the 3DConnexion Space Mouse. I'm so glad I did. I'm still in the learning curve but it's obvious that this will make using Fusion 360 or any CAD program much easier. I highly recommend this for anyone serious about using a CAD program.

When it works its amazing. It makes navigating 3D spaces a real pleasure. Unfortunately, it rarely works. It is so so so difficult to get it to work in Maya and Blender ignores the settings in your Space Navigator program altogether. You have to go into Blender's preferences manually and alter settings to even get the thing to work and even then, it doesn't work properly. When it works in Maya, it is excellent, you can orbit objects, pan, and zoom but in Blender you have only two options: 1. orbit and zoom or 2. pan and turn the camera in 1st person perspective. I want to pan and orbit and zoom at once in Blender but you can't do it.I brought it to school to use it on their iMacs in the lab and it took the school tech guy quite a while of troubleshooting to get it to work in Maya and then after a while it stopped working. I just bought a new Windows PC for my home and I'm trying to get it to work in Maya. I downloaded the latest drivers and opened Maya and started moving the knob on the Space Navigator and... nothing. I don't know why it's not working and I'm sick and tired of trying to figure it out all the time.I don't know why 3D connexion is the only company that makes this kind of product. If there were more companies like this then there would be more competition and they would increase their quality. But I guess 3D connexion feels no need to actually make their product work since they have no competition. I have spent so much time just trying to get the dang thing working that at this point it isn't really saving me any time or making me any more efficient at working in 3D environments.

this mouse is just plain nice. looking to use it with fusion 360. as a hobbyist my biggest concern is the 30 day trial for 360. when trial is up i may/will face a $40 monthly fee. if the fee holds i will look to use the mouse with 123d.