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Finally fixed a bug that Graphisoft was not able to fix for 5+ years in about 30 min

Narska — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:50:35 GMT

This is just another example of how fast things are going to change.

I have been a heavy user of the Space Mouse by 3D Connexion since my college days for modeling. About 5 years ago, with archicad 22 or 23 or something their implementiation of 3D connexion devisees on mac broke, likley after either archicad or 3dConnexion made some updates to something. The navigation continued to work fine but the mouse buttons no longer mapped to the right archicad commands.

The likely implementation defect is a mismatch between Archicad’s handling of raw buttons and the driver’s handling of user assignments.

Either way, I would write to support every year or so, I would send tickets during beta comment periods, i would speak about this on the forum when it would come up. Nothing ever got fixed after years of complaining.

Today I had chat gpt write a peice of sofware that uses the apple debugger to connect to archicad and change its spacemouse connection settings.

And finally it works! after 5+ years of waiting for a fix it took me 30 min of sitting on the couch with chat gpt to fix. I dont even know how it works really, but it works.

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon

Re: Finally fixed a bug that Graphisoft was not able to fix for 5+ years in about 30 min

PB — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:12:11 GMT

Congratulations Narska.

Is it something you can share with the community?

Re: Finally fixed a bug that Graphisoft was not able to fix for 5+ years in about 30 min

Laszlo Nagy — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:10:13 GMT

@Narska,

I second what PB wrote: it would be great if you could share the solution so other users can benefit from this knowledge.

Re: Finally fixed a bug that Graphisoft was not able to fix for 5+ years in about 30 min

krysmark — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:58:18 GMT

My problem was rather with newer MacOS not recognizing older 3D Connexion hardware rather than than Archicad not working with 3D mouse - on older macs everything worked up to Archicad 25 - the newer AC's is not working on newer MacOS.