The Dan Miles Idea Factory

New Mini WACOM Cintiq Screen Pen Tablet

If you are an Autodesk AliasStudio user for 2D hand sketching or use other drawing programs like Autodesk Sketchbook Pro the new Wacom Cintiq direct pen on screen tablets are a must have.  They recently came out with a smaller version that cost $999 which is less then half the orginial one cost and let me just say it is perfect!!!  I ordered one for work and used it a little over the holiday and damn is it nice.  Here is the website for the new device.

http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/12WX.cfm

There is a new trend forming around using on screen pen devices like the Apple Touch iPod and these devices.  You are starting to see them show up everywhere now and even Dell just came out with their first tabel PC recently.  These are going to be and are today perfect for red line change notes and initial concept drawings.

Here is an example of using a pen with Autodesk Design Review for red line markups.

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=t-sTCzVOu48&rel=1&eurl=http%3A//labs.autodesk.com/blogs/its_alive_in_the_lab/view/its_alive_in_the_lab_2007_12_mark-up-special1198753200/&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/t-sTCzVOu48/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJu-BRFp6pBob5IGTheW4vd

Let me know if you have any questions and I will try to provide more information on this later on with some examples.

Dan

Crazy Example of Touch Surface and Alias

I am not sure how much you have been following the Autodesk Alias products like AliasStudio and Showcase sense Autodesk accrued Alias over a year ago now.  In the past few months I have started learning some of these new tools and even got a Wacom tablet for sketching.  The link below is a video that combines a touch surface and Autodesk Showcase. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y6C4LM-6d8

Damn that is cool!!!!

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Dan