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Mate Connector Issues w/Spacemouse

Hey everyone,
I seem to be having an issue with the mate connectors and the Spacemouse. For example, when selecting Fasten Connector and selecting the first point, the view becomes locked and the Spacemouse no longer can navigate. I was working fine this past week up until today. Latest mouse drivers/software installed, Chrome updated, happens in Firefox as well. Any ideas? Am I missing something or are there others having the same issue?
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If you go into the top view, SpaceMice somtimes lock. Use the 2D Mouse and rotate the model just a bit and the SpaceMouse will catch on again.
Thanks for the suggestion but that didn't work. I suspect it's a driver issue and opened a ticket with 3dconnexion. It's strange it's such a specific issue. The mouse works fine in all other conditions.
Cheers!
similar sometimes happens to me during editing some features which contain mates
the only working direction is zoom in and out
and what i've found is that
3d connexion is loosing "connection" with the "onShape app" (whatever it means for the browser based app)
from this
to this
when i leave edition then it usually backs to normal (but not always)
sometimes zooming in and out with the regular mouse helps (but not always)
Thanks for the advice.
I did manage to get it working again by rolling back the driver to 10.9.1. So, it appears to be a driver issue.
3Dconnexion support is aware of it now.
Thanks everyone for looking into this.