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AJLynn · April 10th, 2006

I had a big one at my office desk for months and never managed to make it useful - only occasionally for Photoshopping. There's the Wacom mouse, but that's not really any more useful than a normal mouse. These things are better suited to people who do digital drawing and painting than cad and 3d.

One thing it's good for is if you want to trace a bunch of paper drawings in cad without the hassle of getting bitmap files in there (or if for some reason you can't), and you have the crosshair mouse - I had a friend whose summer job one year was to trace old maps, with a very large Wacom, and it worked well.

April 10th, 2006	#4 (permalink)
AJLynn Moderator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Beantown Age: 30 Posts: 4,550 Name: Andrew Lynn	Re: Wacom I had a big one at my office desk for months and never managed to make it useful - only occasionally for Photoshopping. There's the Wacom mouse, but that's not really any more useful than a normal mouse. These things are better suited to people who do digital drawing and painting than cad and 3d. One thing it's good for is if you want to trace a bunch of paper drawings in cad without the hassle of getting bitmap files in there (or if for some reason you can't), and you have the crosshair mouse - I had a friend whose summer job one year was to trace old maps, with a very large Wacom, and it worked well.