SOLVED: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

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SOLVED: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

Post by osbock »

I've read the older posts here, and I guess the current Mac downloads don't have the 3DConnexion spacemouse support built in.
I tried both the "stable" .19 and my preferred .20 weekly builds.

Are there any current builds that support the Space Mouse?

edit-- turns out slightly older version of the driver only partially work on Mac OSX Monterey
10.7.2 with the Beta .20 homebrew build seems to work well
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Re: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

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Re: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

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I just had the same issue, it is the 10.7.2 driver from 3dconnexion
It worked very well with the current FreeCad release (0.19 24366) and the driver 10.7.0

I asked 3Dconnexion to provide me a source for the old driver and got only a useless answer "Use supported sw, bla bla..."
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Re: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

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@ipatch have you seen issues with lack of spacemouse support in the v0.20dev homebrew builds ?
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Re: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

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I finally got it working, the older driver I had was seemingly partially incompatible with Freecad (and some others) on Mac OSX Monterrey
My current setup:

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OS: macOS 12.4
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.28901 +34 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: ipatch.builds.0.20beta1
Hash: 8505cf72df8794d39f847939f751b2d0c15c57a5
Python 3.10.4, Qt 5.15.3, Coin 4.0.1, OCC 7.6.2
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods: 
  * Assembly4 0.11.12
3DxWare 10 (10.7.2 (3454)
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Re: SOLVED: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

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It's working well with the .20 beta, but I decided to try it with the .19.3 stable release, and it didn't work. The log says:
Log: 3Dconnexion driver initialized. Client ID: 57007
but nothing moves. The buttons do work though
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Re: SOLVED: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

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Well, I think the issue is by far not solved. 3dConnexion released a new driver V 10.7.3 and it doesn‘t work.
I do not make the executable for freecad myself. Thus I depend on the dmg packages and I even don‘t get the older, stable versions to run anymore with the spacemouse. What to do?
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Re: SOLVED: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

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v0.20 is the stable release. Can you test and report back + paste your full About info this time?
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Re: SOLVED: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

Post by Tomki »

The 3dconnexion driver V10.7.3 does not work at all, so I reverted back to V10.7.0.
In this case only the translation movements work, rotation movements doesn't do anything (although enabled in the customize menu).

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OS: macOS 10.16
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.29177 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.20)
Hash: 68e337670e227889217652ddac593c93b5e8dc94
Python 3.9.13, Qt 5.12.9, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.5.3
Locale: C/Default (C)
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Re: SOLVED: Spacemouse not working (MacOSX)

Post by Tomki »

The 3dconnexion driver V10.7.3 does not work at all, so I reverted back to V10.7.0.
In this case only the translation movements work, rotation movements doesn't do anything (although enabled in the customize menu).

Working on a M1 Macbook with macOS Monterey V 12.5
I have to add that on my iMac Pro (Intel) with the same settings (MacOS and 3dconnexion V10.7.0) the spacemouse does work!
Also, the spacemouse worked well with all FreeCAD versions (including V021 daily builds) on my M1 MacMini with 3dconnexion V10.7.0 drivers.

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OS: macOS 10.16
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.29177 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: (HEAD detached at 0.20)
Hash: 68e337670e227889217652ddac593c93b5e8dc94
Python 3.9.13, Qt 5.12.9, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.5.3
Locale: C/Default (C)
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