3DCONNEXION WITH INVENTOR 2017

[avaya2012]

We were updated to Inventor Pro 2017 yesterday.  My coworker had an issue with his 3DConnexion SpacePilot Pro drifting quite fast when he opened something.  The most recent driver was installed, which fixed the problem.  I believe they installed the new driver on my computer as well and thought they were good to go.  Well mine is drifting, but not nearly as bad has the other one was.  It only drifts to the left after a spin in that direction.  I have tried calibrating it and actually got it to reverse drift directions (I started the calibration sequence while the 3D model was drifting). 

Is this an Inventor issue and SpacePilot issue?  I swapped them between the two computers and mine drifts at his computer but his does not drift at mine.  It only takes about 45 seconds for this issue to really get annoying.

Thanks,

CWW

[Mark.Lancaster]

@avaya2012

There was a posting a few weeks ago about an issue with the new driver but I think it had to deal with Inventor 2017 not seeing the device.  I've seen things like this before where the issue follows the device (meaning its faulty).  Or other odd things that occur and others do not have an issue with it.   My suggestion is to unplug it and uninstall the driver.   Then install it again using the latest (driver) version.

[blair]

I had to do a "Calibration" on my work machine about 2-3 weeks ago when I updated to the latest drivers. Possible a good old fashioned reboot of the system, since it's still Microsoft and you could have an update that's not completely installed and a reboot should clear the hanging install.

[avaya2012]

Nothing helped.  Just finished up an uninstall and reinstall of the driver and all software for it and it did not help.  I guess it could be an issue with the SpacePilot that wasn't showing up before.  Our IT guy should be taking a look at it before long.

[blair]

Odd, I've been using these devices for almost 18 years and never had one fail. I've wore the rubber finish off the motion controller but never had a device go bad.

Possible, try the support desk at 3dConnexion.com, there are really good with helping out as well.

[ron]

I am using the discontinued Space Pilot device with Inventor 2018. I recently installed the latest driver. Everything has been working great for a couple of months. Over the last few days it has started drifting in one axis. I agree, this is so annoying. I found if I “pulled” it quickly on another axis it would stop until the next time I made a movement. Funny how we figure out workarounds, we have to because, well for me, I just can’t work without it anymore.

I spent some time researching the issue and tried the suggestions, reinstall driver, calibrate, etc. Nothing was working. Now this will sound a bit crazy, I did get it fixed and the fix stuck. Problem is, I can’t give an exact how to. What I did was stop/start driver, then open the axis controls and kept changing the different axis speeds, directions, and calibrating every time I changed them. Just trying to mix it up a bit or kind of confuse the device. After doing this a few times it “stuck” and the drifting stopped. It has been working fine ever since.

Sorry, this is crappy help….BUT it worked.

Ron