Amazon Customer
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 Blenders preferences manually and alter settings to even get the thing to work and even then, it doesnt 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 cant 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 Im 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 dont know why its not working and Im sick and tired of trying to figure it out all the time. I dont 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 isnt really saving me any time or making me any more efficient at working in 3D environments.