eric76 wrote:
nokosage wrote:
I usually use a graphics tablet to navigate on my main desktop PC, it allows me to draw better than I could with either the mouse or the touchpad.
I plug in a mouse occasionally, having a mouse is very important if you want to play most computer games properly and be any good at them.
But I don't see any advantages to a touchpad, really.
I've thought about getting graphics tablet before to help with problems from carpal tunnel. How does it work with a graphics tablet? Does the place you are "writing" corresponding to a particular point on the screen?
most are directly proportional, meaning that the point on the tablet corresponds directly to the position on the screen, by far most of the drawing tablets function like this.
i have encountered an engineering tablet that used a relative position, meaning that the middle of the pad always starts where you left the mouse on the screen, to reset you lift the pen, they also neccesitate a button to start drawing where drawing tablets often allow direct drawing, many dont or allow for it to be set up(any high end model should have multiple settings)
the reason is to ease navigating huge cad drawings, for this purpose they often employ a 3d cotnroller as well.
if you are interested in common drawing then you can often find very cheap yet decent tablets for less than 60 bucks, sometimes even down in teh 30 dollar range, never bhought one of those though.
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