Tablet PC

[Anonymous]

Is there a version of AC that works with a Tablet PC?

[Stephen Dolbee]

~/archiben wrote:
i 'test-drove' an intuos 3 a few months back. it felt great except i could not find anyway of replacing the efficient zoom/pan functionality of a mouse scroll wheel. this was the one thing that went again it, yet the one thing that stopped me going for it. i would be interested to know how your colleague 'gets around' the zoom/pan issue . . ?

~/archiben

I purchased a Wacom Graphire3 last year and like being able to switch between pen and mouse. I also NEEDED the scroll wheel, so at the same time ordered a Nostromo Speedpad N52 from Belkin. (For the left hand), it has programmable keys and a scroll wheel. I think this is the perfect combination. My only complaint is, after about 6 months, the Speedpad wheel broke. They sent me a new one immediately, but now the second one has broken as well. Maybe I'm zooming in and out too much?

Steve

p.s. I know this is off-topic from the original question.

[Anonymous]

how cool would it be to use ArchiCAD with this?

wait for the quicktime movie.

[Anonymous]

JNTDigital wrote:
how cool would it be to use ArchiCAD with this?

wait for the quicktime movie.

quite possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen

[Fritz T]

A while ago I read in WIRED that apparently Apple & MIT is working on a peripheral input device that would consist of something very similar as this, where input would be done on a large pad surface, almost like a draughting table. Apparently the next generation iPod will be a forerunner of a portion of the technology, containing a single screen the full size of the ipod, but with the scroll controls working with touch-screen type functionality. This is all just speculation, of course, no idea of how soon it will be available.
Imagine being able to design like this...