Digitize
Digitizer Setup
Digitizing is the act of inputting data
into the
computer by tracing the data from a plan sheet. You need to have a
digitizer board, puck, Carlson Takeoff, your
computer and your plan to do digitizing. Wintab is a digitizer driver
that lets you to use the digitizer cursor as both a digitizer cursor
and a mouse. You need
to install
Wintab when you install Carlson Takeoff. Wintab
can be downloaded from GTCO web site:
http://www.gtcocalcomp.com/supportgtcosoftware.htm. Select the driver
version
that suits the type of your digitizer board well.
After you installed
Wintab driver
on your computer, you set up you digitizer to the correct point mode.
In
Windows 2000/XP, go to Start->Settings->Control
Panel->TabletWorks, high light the 16-Btn
Cursor, and select Mouse
as the Pointing Mode, which
lets the digitizer cursor moves relatively to the
screen coordinates. This step is indicated in the following TabletWorks Control Panel dialog.
The next is to set up the pointing
device in Carlson
Takeoff. Open up Takeoff and go to pull-down Settings->Preferences,
click tab System, select Wintab
Compatible Digitizer as Current
Pointing Device, and set the Accept
input from to
Digitize and mouse. Please
refer to the following Options
dialog.
Now, you are ready to use your
digitizer. On the
bottom of the screen, there is a tray icon TABLET on the right side of
MODEL. You can use accelerator key F4
to toggle
on/off the tablet.