Keeps getting harder for me to not want a 3D printer.
But honestly the odd project like this is all if use it for. Would be another expensive space hog most of the time.
It’s becoming increasingly common for community spaces like public libraries to provide access to 3d printers, which is an awesome way to play around with the tech without full investment if you’re lucky enough to have something nearby.
Why is this useful? Is there a video demo that shows it in use and how it helps with CAD over a normal mouse?
There’s a video introduction that talks a little about it and shows a bit of usage.
The canonical proprietary version of this is the SpaceMouse.
These are used in concert with a traditional mouse, with the 3d mouse being used for navigation of the 3d space. They have six degrees of freedom (as in, you can rotate in any axis or you can push it in any axis) so you can rotate and you can pan any which way with full control.
If you’ve ever gotten frustrated in a 3d program trying to figure out the correct sequence of rotations to get to your preferred view, that’s the use case the 3d mouse addresses.
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I was looking at 3d Mousa alternatives a couple weeks back and see this one. This is definitely a super cool idea vs the “standerd” 3d mouse of encoder + joystick + hall sensor.
