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[Bohemianne]

Lol, so you sort of sweat it and experiment with "other use." That old tablet of mine is really intended specifically for cad, and I have tried the other way around too with graphics...the same weird feeling like when you used your new tablet with 3d application. So I am laughing because I think we both achieved something weird.

I already forgot how I've been calibrating that tablet before...which has something to do with tracing very big sheets of drawings. Keyboard shortcuts outlive it. Nevermind. I think calibration it's pretty much part of anything with graphic arts. You see on another side of angle we can even mess up with color calibration, et al.

Bohemianne: Indeed, I recall you having said somthing about having used it for Autocad. so it probably functions as a mouse. I tried to use my tablet (in tablet mode) in Lightwave and DAZ Studio, but it did weird things hen trying to navigate in 3D. It is possible to temporarily switch to "mouse mode" with modern tablets though, so you can use them for 3D as well as 2D art purposes. Plus the new tablets need no calibration at all. 🙂

 

[scavenger]

Well, the drawing tablet worked just fine in those 3D applications, but when trying to rotate the scene with it, moving the stylus just a few millimeters was enough to send the scene spinning and zooming like crazy. Appearantly the relative movement of a stylus on a tablet is something that a 3D program can't interpret... But I know it can be set to "mouse mode" in the tablet's control program (so it'll act just like that old CAD tablet you spoke of).

And my Wacom tablet didn't need calibration at all. Just plug it in and install the cd-rom that came with it. No calibration of any sort was needed. Seems like the default settings were just fine for me.

 

[Bohemianne]

That weird thing is the main function of my outmoded 3d pen before. I haven't had milestone with that pen, except that 3d surface modeling in cad can be accomplished well with a mouse. Anyway, if I am not mistaken and you are talking about the weird thing affecting the "user-coordinate system" of your 3d application, which happens to be a common similar effect when doing a casual "orbit" (cad command)... Hope I am not driving the conversation to a catastrophic jargon...lol. 😀.

Well, the drawing tablet worked just fine in those 3D applications, but when trying to rotate the scene with it, moving the stylus just a few millimeters was enough to send the scene spinning and zooming like crazy. Appearantly the relative movement of a stylus on a tablet is something that a 3D program can't interpret... But I know it can be set to "mouse mode" in the tablet's control program (so it'll act just like that old CAD tablet you spoke of).

And my Wacom tablet didn't need calibration at all. Just plug it in and install the cd-rom that came with it. No calibration of any sort was needed. Seems like the default settings were just fine for me.

 

[scavenger]

That weird thing is the main function of my outmoded 3d pen before. I haven't had milestone with that pen, except that 3d surface modeling in cad can be accomplished well with a mouse. Anyway, if I am not mistaken and you are talking about the weird thing affecting the "user-coordinate system" of your 3d application, which happens to be a common similar effect when doing a casual "orbit" (cad command)... Hope I am not driving the conversation to a catastrophic jargon...lol. 😀.

Woooha... That's some heavy terminology...but then again I never worked CAD. But I think I know what you're reffering to. even moving the pen a little could make the program think it has to perform an infinite movement or something. Since the position of a pen on a tablet is fixed and not relative such as with a mouse, that will most probably cause all kinds of weird stuff in 3D programs. Does some pretty nasty things in 3d FPS games as well...

 

[Bohemianne]

Seriously, I really don’t want to bombard posts with psychedelic terminologies just to play cool…except when I’m at the Self-Referential Thread. 😱

I was amazed that we can visually relate to that damn weird thing…that ”moving the pen a little” lol, (can’t believe it still happens to new tablets!)… I don’t play 3D games, but since we plunge a bit talking about that 3d, I visited DAZ site. Wow…great site! I just don’t know how flexible DAZ 3d source files are when exported to other 3d apps. I have also tried or at least played around with poser before and it’s easier because I have background working with keyframes on video editing. Yet character animation is not my thing. But you see, these are all parts of being creative.

Woooha... That's some heavy terminology...but then again I never worked CAD. But I think I know what you're reffering to. even moving the pen a little could make the program think it has to perform an infinite movement or something. Since the position of a pen on a tablet is fixed and not relative such as with a mouse, that will most probably cause all kinds of weird stuff in 3D programs. Does some pretty nasty things in 3d FPS games as well...