[Cory]

As someone who was excited about the space navigator (the base model one), bought one, used it, then left it untouched 98% of the time, I don't understand how anyone can possibly think they are faster using it than a mouse and keyboard. You have to take your hand off of it every 3 seconds to use keyboard shortcuts if you are generating parts and actively editing assemblies.

If you are giving a presentation or just viewing an assembly then sure, maybe it could be faster. Anyone expecting it to revolutionize their CAD experience is going to be disappointed. Anyone who thinks it's "way faster" is either not doing much editing of parts/assemblies or falsely thinks they're doing it way faster because they're using a cool toy.

As I said before in another thread I could potentially see why a specific use case would allow the space mice with the additional hot keys to be useful, but let's be real, FRC teams aren't doing anything that crazy.