3D mouse wish

Wouldn't it be cool to use a 3D mouse to pan and zoom in the grasshopper workspace ?
(3D connexion, Astroid, and the like)

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Olivier

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on November 25, 2009 at 9:12am

I concur ........ but give the man a chance ;-)

Permalink Reply by Suryansh Chandra on November 25, 2009 at 10:38am

I am not sure if that would really help considering the GH interface is a 2d workspace, unlike a 3d Rhino viewport. Also, GH has tonnes of more important functionality to be built in which are perhaps more 'mission critical' (remote control panel, clusters, data tree stability, a public SDK, and perhaps at some point in time Recursion) which would add some real capabilities to GH that are not possible at the moment. The 'jazzier' bits I think are certainly important as user experience, but what good is a software with a really jazzy interface, but very limited functionality...

Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on November 25, 2009 at 11:43am

A 3D mouse is very efficient in 2D also because it can fluently pan and zoom at the same time.
Given the extent of large definition, I think that this wish is legitimate.
Now regarding your arguing that this wish is less important than other stuff, well... what can I say ?
I think any wish has it's place here.
David is a big boy now, and he certainly doesn't need your help to choose which ones to implement, and how high in the priority list they should be.

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Olivier

Permalink Reply by WT4 on November 25, 2009 at 12:42pm

I use 3dconnexion device to move around my word document and it really is good even for
this 2d application

Permalink Reply by FrankS on November 25, 2009 at 1:31pm

i second that wish (admitting it is not top priority). once you got used to two-handed navigation/editing with mouse and spacemouse you start to miss it soon.
beside the funtionality of fluent 3d-naviagtion there are a couple of tricks you can do only with this two-input-device setup: e.g. in rhino you can start dragging a selection frame and while dragging, navigate your content to fit inside that frame. saves a lot of: frame seletion, oh: wrong starting point for frame, abord/start all over.
IMO this wish is not about some fancy zooming but an aditition to ease of use.

frank

Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on February 11, 2015 at 4:10am

Any hopes to get 3D-mouse panning and zooming in Grasshopper V2 ?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on February 11, 2015 at 6:38am

Maybe, if it's not difficult then I'll probably get it done.

Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on August 20, 2015 at 2:35am

HE he... if it's not difficult, you won't be interested by lack of challenge, and it won't get done ;)

With Grasshopper embedded in Rhino 6, will the 3D mouse know when the focus is on Rhino and when it is on GH ?

It sure would help panning and zooming in those large definitions.

Cheers,

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 20, 2015 at 2:47am

Yes that's one problem, though only one window can have focus at any one time, so it should technically be possible to make a clear distinction between when Rhino and when GH should be panned.

I still find that Navigate works really well for large files though, just a shame it's two clicks away from regular navigation.

Permalink Reply by Olivier Suire on August 20, 2015 at 9:54am

The "navigate tool" is slick looking, but it forces to associate the zoomed-out map and the real thing in my tiny brain.

I like to focus on the "real thing", and now that I have changed the end color of the selected component's wires to purple instead of grey, I do a lot of "wire following".

And that would be greatly enhanced by 3D mouse : simultaneously zoom out and pan, and then dive like mad on my prey/component.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on February 11, 2015 at 4:06am

I concur ........ but give the man a ...... 6 Years wow!

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on February 11, 2015 at 4:21am