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In the architects defence, the precursor to using a mouse for drafting was to use a digitizer. This had a fixed area which was the drafting area, plus a customi
by cam_l 2y ago
In the architects defence, the precursor to using a mouse for drafting was to use a digitizer. This had a fixed area which was the drafting area, plus a customisable arrangement of 'buttons' around it (usually in the form of a laminated sheet stick into the digitizer board) which was the interface.
You could absolutely pick up the digitizer mouse and put it down into a different location on screen. It took me a bit of time to get used to drafting with a mouse after using a digitizer. It was so much less intuitive, so much less accurate, and didn't allow you to build muscle memory.
- danybittel 2y agoI remember my brother once (mid nineties) had a graphics tablet that came with a pen (corded of course) and a "mouse". But the mouse only worked on the tablet and had clear area with a crosshair. Is that the same thing? (Unfortunately I can't find a picture)
- diggernet 2y agoYou reminded me of the Kurta IS/One I had around that time. Here's a picture of the puck: https://www.recycledgoods.com/kurta-puck-puck-for-is-one-12x12-graphics-tablet/ https://www.recycledgoods.com/kurta-puck-puck-for-is-one-12x... And yes, that's the sort of thing they are talking about. (Edit: Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I'm beginning to recall that mine had a cordless puck. It looked exactly like this one, without the cord, and had silver-gray conductive paint down each side so that it would turn on when you grabbed it.)
- cam_l 2y agoThe one i used was something like this. https://cache.getlazarus.org/images/autocad.jpg https://cache.getlazarus.org/images/autocad.jpg