Support for 3dconnexion 3dMouse SpaceMouse

Feature Request
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Wacom is definitely better – there’s no comparison – and on the iPad, the Apple Pencil. Best regards,

Ajubel

www.ajubel.com
#ajubelstudio

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I don’t have any spacemouse device but check in the “3d connexion” Nomad settings.
It’s a 3dconnexion panel “per app” where you can enable/disable some options.

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I have everything checked in there

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So, i’ve managed to get the spacemouse working “fairly” well with the latest updates.

One issue I noticed, I have the UP/DOWN set to Pan Forward / Pan Backward. This control was much slower than the other pan controls.
A fix I tested, which is working well sofar, is to double up on the Pan Forward / Pan Backward. This doubles the speed and actually makes it workable.

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I do notice that nomad ignores everything in the 3dconn. settings.
Here I’ve disabled everything, but it works just fine.

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I just purchased nomadsculpt for mac. I have an macbook pro M4 max and a spacemouse I tried all suggestions in this post but it just doesn’t want to work. This is very disappointing since according to this post it’s been asked atleast a year ago to support the spacemouse. Now I’m forced to work with Plasticity and on my iPad with nomad the switching is annoying.

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I had AI fix this for me on my m4max: nomad can’t use the 3dconnexion driver, zbrush and blender however need the driver, so I made a toggle to turn the service on or off:

Option 1: The One-Click Toggle Utility (Recommended)

This approach places a toggle switch in the macOS Menu Bar. Clicking it stops or restarts the driver on demand and posts a system notification via the Finder.

Setup Instructions

  1. Open the built-in macOS Shortcuts app.
  2. Create a new Shortcut and name it “Toggle SpaceMouse”.
  3. Add a Run Shell Script action block.
  4. Paste the following bash script into the block:

code Bash

if pgrep -x "3DconnexionHelper" > /dev/null; then
    # Kill the driver helper
    killall 3DconnexionHelper
    
    # Send notification through Finder (bypasses terminal privacy restrictions)
    osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display notification "SpaceMouse switched to Nomad Mode (Raw Joystick)" with title "SpaceMouse"'
else
    # Restart the driver helper
    open "/Applications/3DconnexionHelper.app"
    
    # Send notification through Finder
    osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display notification "SpaceMouse switched to CAD Mode (Blender/ZBrush)" with title "SpaceMouse"'
fi
  1. In the Shortcut settings panel on the right, check the box to Pin in Menu Bar or add it to the Dock for quick access.
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nevermind the notifications: they don’t work

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Perhaps I can send Stephomi a spare SpaceMouse of mine if that would be of benefit for implementing official support? :thinking:

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No, I’ll buy one when I’ll have time to spend time on it.

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Is super easy! You will love it too!