WACOM Intuos Pro

I have seen a few questions regarding the Wacom tablets, so I thought I would give a bit of info on my experience.

I have the Wacom Intros Pro Medium and am running CC3+ in a Fusion Virtual Machine on a MacBook Pro. Windows version is 7.

Right off the bat with no configuration needed the tablet works quite fine in CC3+. The round scroll pad on the tablet worked with zoom automatically and some of the predefined buttons were also providing workflow help such as a precision mode that crops a small area and automatically reduces pen travel and increases sesitivity for very smooth precise work.

While poly-lines won't allow you to sketch, it was very easy to draw by gently dragging the pen along the tablet lightly tapping as I went to define points.

All in all a smooth fully functioning effort. I am going to try and remap a few of the buttons so I can pull up sheets and such to see how that works next.

I will say a good mouse is also quite effective and even though the tablet is nice, I wouldn't say rush out and buy one now. I will say if you were considering it and have the cash, it will work just fine, especially if it will work on Windows 7 in a VM on a Mac.

Bill

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  • LoopysueLoopysue ProFantasy 🖼️ 40 images Cartographer
    edited October 2016
    How does it work with the freehand drawing tool, Bill?

    EDIT: That's the button on the right with the pencil drawing the line :)
  • Oddly enough thats the toughest tool to use. Mostly because of the need to bump start and stop a line. Intuitively you want to use it like a pen but then you forget to bump stop the line and it keeps going past your end point. I think building a custom button mapping for the pen buttons may help, but its almost like the pen is also too sensitive to handshake, whereas a mouse rests on a surface and eliminates that. Again maybe a setting or two to tweak that.

    I will experiment as I go along.

    Bill
  • LoopysueLoopysue ProFantasy 🖼️ 40 images Cartographer
    Thanks for doing the research.

    I think I will probably stick with my mouse. I use the freehand drawing tool almost to the exclusion of all else, because its easy enough to outline the shape of a polygon then convert it to one by right clicking the fractalize tool and choosing 'path to polygon'. I couldn't have drawn any of my maps without the freehand drawing tool.
  • I've heard of mice that are very exact, but I've never used one.
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