Is anyone successfully using a Wacom Cintiq with Fusion 360?

[Anonymous]

Wondering if anyone else is using a Wacom Cintiq with Fusion 360, and having success with it?

I'm using a Cintiq, but the pen input is giving me heaps of grief.  Double clicking on lines doesn't automatically grab the entire line/chain (but doing so with a mouse does), and I haven't found a good way to zoom either.

I keep going back to mouse input, which is... less than optimal.  Wondering if it's just me. 😉

[Anonymous]

Something useful turned up in another thread.  Enabling "Use gesture-based view navigation" in Preferences allows for zooming in/out using pinch gesture, which helps.

[JamieGilchrist]

Hi anonperson,

I've used the Cintiq (and Intuos) with Fusion 360 pretty successfully.  Couple things that I find useful.

1.  Turn off touch mode (if it's a touch enabled Cintiq).  I tend to rest my hand on the screen when using the pen and touch enabled causes interference.

2.  I program Cintiq keys for Fusion so I don't have to be on the keyboard too much.

      Shift, Alt, Ctrl, Command(OSX), undo, redo are the primary ones I set.

3.  Hover click turned off in the Cintiq settings

4.  I use the Cintiq scroll wheel for zooming and the pens middle mouse to pan, Shift(custom key on Cintiq) + middle mouse to tumble/rotate.

5.  When tumbling/rotating, while holding the shift button and the middle mouse on the pen,  you can sigle tap on the model to set your pivot point for the camera

Can you give me a bit more specific situations for this statement:  "Double clicking on lines doesn't automatically grab the entire line/chain"

are you referring to a t-spline body and the edit form workflows?  this does work.  or is it somethin else?

Also can you let me know a bit more info about the Cintiq you're using?  model number (newer/older), driver version.

hope this helps and let us know if you have any further questions.

[Anonymous]

@JamieGilchrist 1) I have one of these, so resting my hand on the screen while drawing never causes interference:

  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Huion-Artist-Glove-Graphics-Drawing/dp/B00VTHAS00/

But I can turn off touch mode (I only use it for zoom), since you mention there's a way to zoom without the pinch gesture. 🙂

2) Yeah, that's my normal approach too... except with CAD work (eg Fusion 360) there seems to be a lot of keyboard use needed anyway (eg for naming things), so I've been keeping the keyboard close enough to use simultaneously.  I'll probably adopt your style more, if I keep using Fusion 360 and get the hang of it better.

3) That confuses me.  In my Wacom settings, the Side Switch Mode is either "Hover Click" or "Click & Tap".  I'm set to use Hover Click at the moment (the default).  You're using Click & Tap mode?

4) Makes sense.  The scroll wheel doesn't seem to be working for me atm though.  I thought it was a Fusion problem, but it might be something else. Just noticed it's not working in Firefox either.  "Uh oh, that doesn't seem good." 😞

5) I'll try this when I get the above set up. 🙂

With the "double clicking on lines doesn't automatically grab the entire line/chain"... yep, I'm exactly referring to a t-spline body and the edit form workflow.  For me, double clicking with the pen does not select the chain, whereas doing it with the mouse does.

My Cintiq is a 27QHD, Model DTH-2700, Version 1.01, only a few months old.  Using driver version 6.3.13w3 at the moment.  Apparently there's a new driver out, but I haven't bothered to upgrade it.  Can do if you reckon it might help. 🙂

[JamieGilchrist · Accepted solution]

Hi anonperson,

if the glove works for you then that's cool, there probably isn't any need to turn off touch mode, especially if you are using your wacom for other applications, etc.

yes I keep the keyboard nearby for doing any numeric entry or naming, as you point out, but if I'm in the sculpt workspace and doing a lot of form editing, I find I use the keypard a lot less frequently.  If I'm using the sketch tools a lot or solid modeling, then the keyboard is always part of my workflow and close at hand.

   3) That confuses me.  In my Wacom settings, the Side Switch Mode is either "Hover Click" or "Click & Tap".  I'm set to use Hover Click at the moment (the default).

         You're using Click & Tap mode?

Yes!

Here are screen shots that show my wacom settings (these are for my Intuos, but essentially the same settings I use on a Cintiq).  One thing you can try too is the setting for one of the programmable buttons to be set to Pan/Scroll and hold this button and move the pen across the screen for zoom.  I'm using 6.3.5 driver on the Cintiq and it is working fine.

hope this helps.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Jamie, that's good info. 🙂

After updating the Wacom driver (to 6.3.14-1), the touch ring started working again in everything. Whew! So not a hardware problem.

I'll go through the other settings and adjust as needed.  Now hopeful about Cintiq with Fusion 360. 😄