joystick

[Baghera]

This could probably go under hardware but I figured I'd get a better response here. Mods please move if you deem neccessary.

This comes up because I went to the store yesterday to pick up a new 5 button mouse and what catches my eye but one of those "flight simulator" joysticks with, like, 12 buttons so of course I wonder, :idea: "What would it be like to draft with that?"

So the question is, Has anyone ever used a joystick instead of a mouse to draft or did I just have a temporary loss of sanity? :screwy:

[Robert.Hall]

Id say temporary loss of sanity, lol. You have been doing Cad way too long.
I'm guessing that using a joystick would be too hard. Ive got a gravis exterminator gamepad that I use with my home computer. I have a tough enough time using the
controller to move the mouse pointer across the screen. As far as having 12 buttons, I'm using a spaceball for that.......I have most of the modify commands programmed into the buttons. Sometimes I don't even use the keyboard, mouse in my right hand, spaceball in my left hand.

[jaberwok]

....Has anyone ever used a joystick instead of a mouse to draft or did I just have a temporary loss of sanity? :screwy:
When I think of the hours spent in the 80s trying to program a joystick to act like a mouse ....... (shakes head wearily).

Please, don't do it.

[Glenn Pope]

When I think of the hours spent in the 80s trying to program a joystick to act like a mouse ....... (shakes head wearily).

Please, don't do it.
There is software out there that makes this very easy to do. Don't think it would work very well for using CAD. Of course if you are a flight sim fan and was going to buy the joystick anyway, I say go for it and lets us know how it turns out.

[jaberwok]

There is software out there that makes this very easy to do.
I was trying to create a CAD programme for the Atari 400. Doomed to failure.

[hugh.69031]

Just FYI, 3M has an optical mouse with a numeric keypad on top.

Weird: http://www.cleansweepsupply.com/pages/skugroup33848.html

Getting it to sit still when punching in numbers could take both hands :-)

[m.devlin]

Check this out:www.3dconnexion.com

Dev.

[Wanderer]

This could probably go under hardware but I figured I'd get a better response here. Mods please move if you deem neccessary.

This comes up because I went to the store yesterday to pick up a new 5 button mouse and what catches my eye but one of those "flight simulator" joysticks with, like, 12 buttons so of course I wonder, :idea: "What would it be like to draft with that?"

So the question is, Has anyone ever used a joystick instead of a mouse to draft or did I just have a temporary loss of sanity? :screwy:
I would like to move this from the AutoCAD forum to the Hardware forum. ;)

[Baghera]

Check this out:www.3dconnexion.com (http://www.3dconnexion.com/)

Dev.
looked at those, then saw the price tag, so unless work buys it for me im SOL