The Stealth Mouse and Soft Mouse are supported in ArcGIS Pro 3.2. These are great news! I really like the GUI to assign functions to the buttons of the 3D mice. It is more user friendly than in Stereo Analyst.
It must be possible to assign custom buttons to the 3D mice (examples see below). Otherwise, it doesn't make sense for us to use a 3D mouse.
Examples from the Swiss National Forest Inventory:
For one sample plot, the interpeters must digitize 25 points and assign the land cover to them:
The workflow with a 3D mouse looks as follows:
Or even better: points 2 and 3 could be combined to one button click --> for every land cover category, a different button or button combination could be clicked.
There is another example:
The interpreters must digitize the forest boundary line. Around the last vertex of the sketch, there is a circle with 25 m radius. The purpose of this circle is to indicate the area in which the next vertex has to be placed (the distance between vertices must be < 25 m):
The workflow with a 3D mouse looks as follows:
I think the ability to assign custom buttons to 3D mice would be a great improvement!
The simple assignment of hotkeys is already easily possible in another software for photogrammetric evaluation (Socet GXP from BAE Systems).
So it should not be a big deal for Esri to implement the individual access to the hotkeys with the mouse buttons.
This function is absolutely necessary to make simple commands accessible and ergonomic for e.g. left-handed users.
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