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Wacom Pen Tablet Feedback

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Message 1 of 10
PorterWayfare
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Wacom Pen Tablet Feedback

Here's hoping for a good new year for us all.

Has anyone had any experience with a Wacom Bamboo digitizer tablet and ACA08? Does anyone know if it is likely to work as an input device for the SKETCH command?

Thanks.
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Over at the AUGI ACA08 discussion group a list of similar Wacom Pen Tablet related posts was displayed at the bottom of my post. That was helpful and interesting. It seems there is a fairly enthusiastic subset of Revit users who use the Pen Tablet for almost everything. I just want to use it for tracing, but it sounds like it may be good for more than that.

So, once again, does anybody here use it for ACA 08?
Message 3 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: PorterWayfare

You scared everyone off with SKETCH command functionality, a borderline
useless function in AutoCAD, and the old-school hand-tracing wish.

Tablets have been around for a very long time and Wacom is a brand name
among many, explore the Digitize-Display discussion area for feedback. Pens
are great is programs like Photoshop and Illustrator, neat mouse alternative
in AutoCAD but that's about it.

Instead of tracing, you need to be using a scanner and raster-to-vector
software. Many good ones out there that do not cost a lot of money.

Bamboo is for lite casual use, kind of like Sketch command and hand-tracing
IMHO, try the professional grade products like Intuos. I use the 9x12 is
Photoshop myself with the pen, with the mouse for ACA and AutoCAD (can't
give up mouse buttons).

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Dean
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Message 4 of 10

Thanks for the reply and especially the background. I'm tracing over photographs and I'm getting stylized outlines that I then hatch to an interesting effect for a kind of entourage. I didn't think raster-to-vector would work on photos. I'll look into it.

In the meantime, I am unable to locate the Digitize-Display discussion area. Can you please point me in the right direction to it?
Message 5 of 10

No, wait. I got it: Hardware. Thanks again.
Message 6 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: PorterWayfare

There is "pn.hardware", but Dean meant the
"autodesk.autocad.digitize-display" group for the newsreader or
"Pointing-Devices and Displays" under the "AutoCAD Groups" at
http://discussion.autodesk.com/forum.jspa?forumID=17 if you are using your
web browser.
Message 7 of 10

Thanks. I looked at it and I'm going to give it a go.

But, at the risk of sounding dense, when I go to the link you gave me and then backtrack to the Discussion Groups Index, looking at the index I see no Pointing-Devices and Displays heading, although that is definitely where I came from. So how do you find it in the index And more interestingly, I'd like to see what else I might be missing.

This discussion group is much more helpful than my subscription.
Message 8 of 10
Anonymous
in reply to: PorterWayfare

http://discussion.autodesk.com
It's buried under the AutoCAD link, along with print-plot area and others
they have not broken out for the rest of us to use for some reason.

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Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
Add-on products for LT
http://www.pendean.com/lt
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Message 9 of 10
uriah
in reply to: PorterWayfare

recommend ACAD tablet for arch please
Message 10 of 10

I'm not quite sure what your question means, but I got a Wacom Bamboo tablet (the small one without the mouse-just the pen) and have been using it for about four days. That's not much, but I can say that I liked it to begin with and now it's just a matter of getting used to it. It turns out that it is good for much more than I originally imagined-which was tracing. I haven't figured out how to drag the view around yet and that would be nice. I think the smaller the tablet the better in of arm/hand movements. The tablet (or any part of the tablet you choose) maps to the screen. Still, I think the small size is plenty.

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