So, I’m sitting here throwing make-shift tablet styluseseseses at my face waiting for a massive Cintiq 21″ tablet to arrive so I can test it out, when I see Jordan Tadic from 3D Vision showing off how he used SolidWorks on a Wacom Cintiq.
It’s tablet pickin’ fun of the highest caliber… or next to highest caliber. Check out the video overdubbed with Mystic Bounce by DJ Madlib… some right proper tunage for such sketchin’ and groovin’. After you see it, what do you think? Would you want to use one?
Jordan uses a Wacom Cintiq 21″ tablet. It cost $1999, allows you to use a stylus directly on the screen and makes everyone else without one buy you meals just saw they can look over your shoulders while you work your magic.
I wish he would have kept the camera on the tablet as he used SolidWorks. The workflow for bringing in/simplifying vectors is a fairly standard process. Would have been nice to see more of him actually working. Anyway…
Improving the Sketch Process
Obviously, the main demographic for the Cintiq tablet is the graphic artist. As product developers using mCAD programs, most of us don’t want to go from Photoshop to Illustrator to SolidWorks. That’s just one workflow though, one that works for people who like to sketch their concept views first. You can start directly in SolidWorks, but you won’t have the same functionality as those graphics programs the Cintiq is made specifically for. I’m convinced this is where we’ll see big changes over the next couple years.
Why? I’ve thought about buying one of the 21″ Cintiq tablets, but with Windows 7and all-in-one computers, along with touch device production beginning to ramp up and a slew of tablets (including Apple’s tablet announcement likely to come the end of this month), I’m more excited about the capabilities we’ll see in ‘standard’ hardware.
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pretty cool, though it seems like for functionality within solidworks the tablet made no real difference as opposed to using a mouse.
i suppose the difference is more in the tactile feel of using a stylus to manipulate the program, which makes me wonder how a tablet such as the wacom bamboo touch would be useful for 3d cad work. does anyone here have any experience using one of those with SW? I'd be curious as to how it holds up. Seems pretty fun in my head.
Also, first angle projections? My head exploded for a second
pretty cool, though it seems like for functionality within solidworks the tablet made no real difference as opposed to using a mouse.
i suppose the difference is more in the tactile feel of using a stylus to manipulate the program, which makes me wonder how a tablet such as the wacom bamboo touch would be useful for 3d cad work. does anyone here have any experience using one of those with SW? I'd be curious as to how it holds up. Seems pretty fun in my head.
Also, first angle projections? My head exploded for a second
mmm… all those toys (Cintiq + CS4) are wonderfull, but I think this vid just shows how weak SW is for quick Conceptual Design of organic and/or ergonomic shapes.
The need of additional software to create “freehand curves” on a program that is $5K+, makes poor marketing.
SolidWorks needs to Implement “FreeHand Splines” ASAP!!! or even better, an IloveSketch Module!!!
Why create a conceptual sketch or image? we could create the 3D model for the same purpose, now that all of us can render (PV360)
yeah, that's one reason I wanted him to keep the camera on himself. I've gotten some feedback on another user who uses one daily. He can tear away on it. I'm really curious to know if gestures work on it.
GREAT point diverso, but it also depends on what you're use to. I can lay out some ideas pretty quick in SolidWorks. Much quicker than doing it in Photoshop or Illustrator first. If I sketch something, I'll just bring it in as a sketch picture. freehand splines, like Illustrator, would be incredible though, add that ILoveSketch to it and SolidWorks would just dominate the design world… imo
Guess you are right about the touch capabilities coming in standard hardware and since Apple announced the event at the end of Jan. it will be more interesting. But honestly I doubt that the Apple tablet will be something like a computer. I guess it will be a blown up iPod touch. Well we will see and I really think in the not so distance future we will see great devices for those kind of things.
“SolidWorks would just dominate the design world…”
Precisely… muahahaha (evil laugh)!!!!!!
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