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Hi, This error means that our driver can not found any SpaceMouse generic driver installed at your machine. This driver needs SpaceMouse generic driver to work. You can download it from http://www.3dconnexion.com/software/sdk/3dxware-sdk_v1-0-1_win32.exe. Because this driver is beta and it is not working perfect we did not create installshield for installation. Best Regards

Hi, With the technical development support by 3D Connexion, we have experimentally developed IronCAD / SpaceMouse Driver which is in beta stage now and it has the following features: 1. When you start this program it opens IronCad with SpaceMouse Support. 2. You can increase & decrease SpaceMouse Sensivity from program. 3. It moves camera within 6 degress of freedom. You can pan & rotate camera. It uses following technique to manupulate SpaceMouse actions: 1.SpaceMouse sends differences in 6 parameter in eye coordinate system(dx,dy,dz,rx,ry,rz). SpaceMouse sends Panning, Rotating and Zoom differences. 2. Program gets Cameras position vector and look-up vector from IronCAD in IronCAD current coordinate system with OLE Automation. 3. Then transform this vectors to eye-coordinate system. 4. Applies panning differences (dx,dy), rotating differences(rx,ry,rz) and zooming differences(dz) to camera vectors. 5. After that program transform camera vectors defined in eye-coordinates into IronCAD current coordinate system. 6. With OLE Automation program applies new coordinates to camera's position and Look-up Vector. However, we have following problem with IronCAD / Space Mouse driver at the moment and it does not allow us to release it. The movement is not smooth in IronCAD when working normal way. But when you open a IronCAD dialog from menu or pop-up dialog of IronCAD scene, movement becomes smooth and works perfect. We believe the reason may be that (in developer's speaking) Scene event processor priority for event queue of Windows. When you open a dialog from IronCAD it moves to top at event queue so events passed directly to IronCAD this makes movements smooth. When closing dialog Windows changes IronCAD priorities so events delayed for IronCAD. And also the reason can be from OLE Automation event processor. When IronCAD has top priority OLE Automation functions started immediately from IronCAD. Otherwise automation functions queued in IronCAD so this problem occurs. We expect new SDK with version 6.0 and it will hopefully include some new possibilities for third party developers. After having studied the new SDK, we can re-try the same development to see if the problem can be overcome. However, for those people who takes interest the existing driver, it is enclosed for test purposes. Please make sure that IronCAD and SpaceMouse driver is installed at the machine you will try. Start the program directly it will start IronCAD automatically. SpaceMouseforIronCAD.exe

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