[TheForge] RE: Layout tools

[Chuck Robinson]

I looked at them, and drooled some, but I just bought a new computer and the 
cost of the PC tablets is about 3X the cost of the Wacoms.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <marc at ironringforge.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] RE: Layout tools


> 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
>>
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