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.