Significant enhancement to innovative adaptive sensing technology enables NX digital product users to gain significant productivity increases.

3Dconnexion has announced another significant enhancement to its innovative adaptive sensing technology. Its SpacePilot 3D motion controller is now able to detect and adapt to more than 16 environments for UGS' NX digital product development software. By adopting the new SpacePilot motion controller, NX users stand to gain significant productivity enhancements, including a more streamlined design process, greater accuracy, and ultimately, overall time and cost savings.

SpacePilot is the world's first intelligent motion controller and provides designers and engineers with a better way to work among various 3D environments and sub-environments.

As the designer moves between CAD environments - from sketch to modelling and then to assembly for example - the SpacePilot automatically detects the transitions, updates its function keys with the new NX commands and displays them on its LCD screen.

Default functions are provided for each environment and the SpacePilot also may be customised with any NX commands mapped to correspond to keys on the SpacePilot.

Engineers and designers who add a SpacePilot to the traditional mouse and keyboard set-up can pan, zoom and rotate their 3D models while simultaneously editing and annotating with the mouse.

The advanced sensing and adapting mechanism, combined with other SpacePilot functions such as quick view commands, enhances workflows and makes interaction with NX faster and easier.

'We are pleased to welcome 3Dconnexion's SpacePilot to the highly successful and rapidly expanding UGS Partner Program,' said Chris Kelley, vice president, partner and platform marketing, UGS.

'We believe the integration of SpacePilot's adaptive technology with our NX software will create value for our NX customers, including increased design productivity.' The new SpacePilot capabilities are available with NX Version 3.0.4 or higher.

In these versions, the SpacePilot LCD display shows commands specific to the environment in the native language supported by the installed version of NX.

The new SpacePilot software is available immediately for download on 3Dconnexion's Web site.

* About 3Dconnexion - 3Dconnexion, a Logitech Company (SWX:LOGN) (NASDAQ:LOGI), is the leading provider of 3D input devices that enhance the user interface for professional 3D applications in markets such as product design (CAD/CAM/CAE), modeling and animation (digital content creation).

More than 350,000 designers, animators, and artists use 3Dconnexion's award-winning line of motion controllers, including SpacePilot, SpaceBall, SpaceMouse and SpaceTraveler.

3Dconnexion is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA, with offices in Boston, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, London, UK, Milan, Italy, Munich, Germany, Paris, France, Shanghai, China, Tokyo, Japan, and Wroclaw, Poland.