[TheForge] RE: Layout tools

[marc at ironringforge.com]

How about skipping all of that and getting a tablet PC? These things are
the next laptop. About the same size, but the screen is also an input
device that you write on with your stylus. I think some even come with
built-in cameras. Go to the client, take a picture of the staircase and
then draw the railing design on the picture on your PC screen.

Ooh -- then get yourself a portable projector and beam your drawing
directly onto the staircase (OK, the wall behind it).

Blacksmithing in the 21st Century! In the 22nd Century we can introduce
holographic displays.

--Marc

> Hey Ralph,
> Its an electronic pad , usually supplied with a pressure sensitive stylus,
> that allows you to draw on the pad and see what you are doing on the
> monitor. You draw right into a drawing or CAD program file. Most of the
> better programs have a smoothing routine to clean up the drawing.
> I'm thinking of getting one with a 9" x 12" drawing surface to allow me to
> take photos of interesting work,. copy it on thin paper and then overlay
> it
> on the tablet.
> Tracing the picture will solve a lot of my problems with proportional
> drawings and scale when displaying work in the GCBA news letter.
>  Check out the Wacom tablets
> Chuck
>