Tablets

Tablets, or graphic tablets, have been around since the 1950s but available to home computer users beginning in the 1980s. The basic premise is that you can control the cursor on your computer with a pen like device resting on a flat tablet, rather than with the mouse. Over the past several decades, the graphic tablet has evolved to include the ability to sense pressure, the tilt of the pen, and some have automatic handwriting recognition. While they are incredible tools with so many benefits and options to a designer, we are, once again, going to try to narrow our focus to how they are helpful to a SketchUp user.

Advantages of a tablet

The aim of this section is not to talk you into using a graphic tablet over a mouse. It is, however, aimed at helping you to look at the options that are out there and, maybe, show you a solution that you do not know about. Despite the wide use of mice throughout the computer using world, there are a few significant advantages that graphic...