Topic: Tablet Menu Set Up?

[CAB]

I need some help with a tablet I just installed. It's an old SummaSketch II.
Got the windows drivers installed and did a test in windows and all is well.
The tablet is set in WYPIWYG pointing mode. In acad I set in for WinTab Compatable
and to accept table or mouse input. Using ACAD 2000 & windows 2000.
The tablet driver is TWSER2KXP9.50.exe
In ACAD you can use the mouse or the tablet, I used the tablet command to CFG
the Tablet areas 1-4 and the screen areas. All seemed ok but the tablet menu is
not working. The movement of the cursor with the puck is not restricted to the
defined screen area of the tablet. Toggling the FLOAT button has no effect.
I defined the fixed & float as the same area on the tablet. My tablet menu
was in a 2nd menu I loaded with menuload. But I have tried to put the tablet
menu code in the acad.mns file & that does not work either.
I did try
(MENUCMD "T1=OPTICADD.TABLET1")
(MENUCMD "T2=OPTICADD.TABLET2")
(MENUCMD "T3=OPTICADD.TABLET3")
(MENUCMD "T4=OPTICADD.TABLET4")
with no luck.

Is there something else you have to do to activate the tablet menu system?

[Trev]

Check in the Acad 'Options' > 'System'
and see what is set as Current Pointing Device.
If you have the tablet set as your main windows pointing device then "Current..." should be fine. But at a guess you only want the tablet used in acad.
Set it to 'Wintab compatible digitizer....."
and ensure you then have 'Digitizer and mouse' option selected.

[CAB]

Yes I have it set for "WinTab Compatable Digitizer ADI 4.2 - by Autodesk"
and to accept input from "digitizer and mouse".

[Keith™]

Did you configure the tablet menu?

If not, you will need to type TABLET at the command line then enter the config option, follow the prompts by selecting the corners of the 4 tablet menu areas and the screen pointing area.

You will need to enter the number of columns and rows for each of your menus. This can be achieved typically by counting the number of columns and rows on your tablet template.

I haven't configured one in a few years but that is how I remember it.

[CAB]

You have a good memory
Yes, that part went as expected.

[Keith™]

still no luck huh .... defective tablet perhaps?

[CAB]

still no luck huh .... defective tablet perhaps?

Ok, made some progress. Got the tablet to calibrate and then turned ON.
Seems the tablet must be in ON mode for the menu items to work AND the
tablet must be calibrated to turn it on.

It seems there is a relation set up during calibration between the tablet
screen area and the model space coordinates while in Fixed Mode.
The menu system works in Fixed Mode, not in Float Mode. Is that correct?

I expected but is not working that in FLOAT mode the menu is not working
and the cursor is not contained in the designated Tablet screen area. I though
that in FLOAT you would be contained in the designated Float defined area but
the relation to coordinates would be dynamic. So if you zoomed in or out
that the cursor while moving within the tablet designated float screen area would
have full movement on the crt.

Well I'll keep fooling with it.