How to Map Commands to Calcomp VI Digitizer

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I am trying to replicate my bosses old digitizer tablet for him to do AutoCAD LT drafting like he did on his old computer before it crashed. What he had was a super old SumaSketch III, and he had this sucker booted up on a computer with Windows XP. This computer recently crashed and our IT has forced him to upgrade to Windows 10 and while we were at it, upgrade the AutoCAD to LT 2019.

The digitizing board effectively allowed him to draw things to scale from laying paper copies of drawings on the tablet and it also allowed him to configure commands such as PLINE and CIRCLE to the board so he could click on that specific spot on the board and macro the command into AutoCAD. I have attached a picture of the command layout the old board used.

I have no clue what I'm doing lol.

I began researching this a few months ago and I got in contact with a guy in Texas who pointed me to a possible solution. "Use a GTCO Calcomp VI in conjunction with the TabletWorks software (including the CADDriver), and it might work for you. But good luck, everyone who can help you died 40 years ago."

I bought the board and the software and I am now in the phase of setting this sucker up.

It's a shot in the dark, but can anybody walk me through how the hell you go about setting this Calcomp board and the Tablet works software to work the same way my boss wants in AutoCAD 2019.

[pendean]

You install the tablet driver in Windows.
Plug in the Tablet. Turn it on.
Reboot Windows.

Confirm AutoCAD/LT can access the driver: run TABLET command: if the command runs, you can start setting the tablet up. Read about it in HELP for more things you need to do to complete the tablet setup. Once it is all calibrated it and you set up all the areas, you can start programming those buttons to do what the label says in CUI command (expand the LEGACY section at the bottom, then Tablet Menus and Buttons sections).

You are going to be busy or the next week doing this... or more.

if TABLET command does not run, that driver is no good for AutoCAD/LT. You need to find another driver (or get a refund).

Last guy to use one of those contraptions in this office retired 20-years ago, the above is about all I remember off the top of my head.

Good luck.

[Anonymous]

Do you need to use the TABLET -> CFG function to map the menu to the board?

How to you get the tablet to actually use the macro table within the CUI?

[pendean]

Yes to your first question.

For your other, it's been 20-years since I touched any of that, you're going to have to read up on it in the CUI