Thread: Cad / freehand ?
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09-11-2015 #5
Looks to me as if that mouse is designed to be used with a Wacom tablet, not as a normal mouse. Could be wrong but needs checking?
I needed to make a cutout in a piece of wood to mount an irregular shape piece of pottery tile. I used my scanner to get a bitmap image and then used a trace feature in a CAD package to end up with a DXF. The scanner output needed scaling (it came out as something like 97% of the original) but once I'd tweaked it, it worked very well. Just a thought - it all depends on exactly what you are trying to do.
Packages like Fusion360 and OnShape do make drawing easier than with a more traditional package like TurboCAD. You "sketch" shapes like rectangles and circles, then snap them together, add corner fillets, then dimensions, and you can pretty quickly end up with quite complex shape, all fully dimensioned and with the ability to edit very easily. I remember light pens and the like from dedicated graphics workstations from what seems like long ago now, but on the whole I would rather use a mouse and a good CAD application.
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