Wacom Cintiq 21UX

Has anyone used or tried out a Wacom Cintiq 21UX or its smaller cousin the
17UX with SolidWorks? It's a 21" LCD with a clear tablet over the top. Kind
of like back to the drafting board, although a really small one.
http://www.wacom.com/lcdtablets/index_21UX.cfm

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

I use a Wacom Intuos 2, which I am guessing works the same way
I use it quite a bit for relatively low precision work, it makes a nice
change for my worn out right hand (I use a left mouse for everything else)

The only issue I have, (which frankly I cannot drum up the energy to
resolve) is that there is significant keybounce when using the RMB
functions.
For some reason, this is really bad over the SW graphics area, but it is
almost never a problem over the feature manager area.
This means that all graphics area RMB functions are best (only?) done with a
mouse (which by the way occasionally also exibits keybounce issues)

On one occasion I have had a problem using a RMB function while performing
file folder management.
The current folder disappeared and was later found one level up, so in this
case the keybounce was more than a mere annoyance.
Yeah, I spose I should call someone about it
malcolm

 

This is probably adjustable.
See your mouse settings I expect. Or keyboard settings.

 

Recently on a customer visit I was told that SW needs to do a better
job of supporting tablets. I'm naive' on the subject - my last tablet
was on ME10 in the late 1980's and I've never found a reason to return.
Do you think that there is a fair amount of users out there that are
using SW with a tablet as there main input device? What could we (SW)
do to better support them? I guess the one answer that I would
anticipate is that we could be doing things with our UI that better
matched the specific features of a tablet or maybe it's more a matter
of layout of the UI.

Regards

Mark Biasotti
SolidWorks

 

How about using a tablet to accept hand sketches? Splines are tough to
draw with a mouse.

Matt

 

Hello Mark,

draw and then have that vectorize into a sketch..... AMAZING.