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WORKING WITH AUTOCAD
AutoCAD can support the Intuos4 tablet as a Windows system pointing device or as a Wintab compatible
digitizer. By default, AutoCAD is configured to use Intuos4 as a system pointing device.
Follow the below procedures if you will be using Intuos4 with tablet menus or to digitize drawings to proper
scale.
Note:
To configure the mouse or lens cursor for left-handed use in AutoCAD or similar applications, open the
Wacom Tablet control panel, click on O
PTIONS
... and select L
EFT
in the M
OUSE
H
ANDEDNESS
group.
CONFIGURING AUTOCAD FOR A WINTAB COMPATIBLE DIGITIZER
1.
Start AutoCAD. Open the T
OOLS
menu and select O
PTIONS
. (In AutoCAD 2009 or later, click on the
button with the red ‘A’ on the top left and select O
PTIONS
.)
2. From the O
PTIONS
window, select the S
YSTEM
tab.
3. Under C
URRENT
P
OINTING
D
EVICE
, select the W
INTAB
COMPATIBLE
DIGITIZER
option.
4. Decide from which device AutoCAD will accept input. Choose an option from the A
CCEPT
I
NPUT
F
ROM
section:
•
D
IGITIZER
O
NLY
.
The AutoCAD drawing editor only accepts input from Intuos4.
•
D
IGITIZER
AND
M
OUSE
.
The AutoCAD drawing editor accepts input from both Intuos4 and your
mouse.
5. Click OK to close the O
PTIONS
window.
