Disable spaceball in session

[moog2]

When i have a part which takes a very long time to update, it freezes the spaceball in other sessions i have open, is there a way i can disable the spaceball in this session before i start the update, so it won't upset its operation in the other sessions?

 

[JohnRBaker]

I suspect that that will not be possible since the Spaceball NO longer actually runs INSIDE of the NX session, but rather it's now running inside of Windows itself. You can verify this by running NX and then launching a non-NX application which also supports a Spaceball, such as Google Earth. Both NX and Google Earth are 'linked' to the same Spaceball service routine, 3dxsrv.exe. You can check this using the Windows 'Task Manager' to determine that there is ONLY a single 3dxsrv.exe application running yet two other applications are able to use the Spaceball.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[moog2]

John, thanks for the reply, oh-well...

 

[MickyV007]

Or you can stop/start the driver, this option is in the 3Dconnexion program folder in your start menu.

Best regards,

Michaël.

NX7.5.4.4 + TC Unified 8.3
Win 7 64 bit (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5650 @2.67GHz)
24.0 GB
NVIDIA Quadro 4000 + NVIDIA Tesla C2050

 

[JohnRBaker]

Yes, but it will be stopped for all NX sessions. Granted, you could manually start and stop as you went from session to session.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.