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If you have the money I would suggest you get the one with the palm rest and the millions of buttons - not the one with the screen though - even the rep I bought mine from said it was a waste of time.
Two buttons is enough to work though, one zooms to the selected object and the other brings up the 3dconnexions config menu - although you can configure them to do anything you want.
I've tested the Traveller with the 8 buttons, and I found it a bit annoying to be honest.
I thought it wasn't heavy enough because I kept lifting it and some of the buttons were hard to reach.
I can image the SpacePilot is very good even though it costs alot more.
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I have a 3D connxion SpaceMouse with 8 buttons and I hardly every used it, not sure why, it took alot of time to set up. Now I use a 3m Ergonomic mouse ( basically a joysick with 3Buttons ) that I couldn't live without. It is the only thing that stops my wristings and hand from getting f@CKED when I do all nighters. I find it much more accurate then a now mouse - hey if a crane driver and a helicopter pilot use a joystick it's good enough for me.
One night while working a really heavy project the machine crashed, I had a little temper tantrum and slammed the joystick down breaking it. I was almost crying, I rush ordered another on, and couldn't really work right until it arrived.
I've got a space pilot. The drivers are nearly worthless and they changed it so it only works with 3d apps.
If i'm paying That much for a special mouse I want to have control over every aspect of it. It should even be able to pan my emails if I want. The old drivers could do that, but don't work well with max 9. The new drivers work ok in max 9, but not much of anything else.
I've got the screen, which is useless, and tons of buttons. Their locations are useless as well so I really only use the two buttons.
I actually only use the thing to control cameras now. Max's tools for moving camera stink since you can't use the same methods to move a camera as perspective. I don't use the buttons, since I came from Maya, so i don't want to use them for max either.
I would imagine the smaller ones have a problem lifting off the table though, so the wrist rest might be worth it.
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