Setup 25xxx tablet with AutoCAD 13 in Windows 3.x

Setup 25xxx tablet with AutoCAD 13 for Windows 3.x

A.  Change Digitizer in AutoCAD to "System Pointing Device"

    1.  Enter Windows

    2.  Enter AutoCAD for Windows

    3.  Type CONFIG at the Command Line to Configure AutoCAD

    4.  Select "Configure Digitizer"

    5.  Do you want to select a different one? [Y]

    6.  Select "Current System Pointing Device"

    7.  Select option "0" and EXIT with changes saved.

    8.  Exit AutoCAD for Windows and EXIT Windows.

B.  Set Tablet Menu Settings to "AutoCAD as GTCO DP5"  from the 2500 User's Manual

    1.  Refer to the "SETTING THE SOFT SWITCHES" in your 2500 User's Manual for instructions on setting up the
         tablet for "AutoCAD as GTCO WITH GTCO MICRO DIGI-PAD EMULATION."

    2.  Following are the menu settings required to enable your digitizer to operate correctly:

        Bank 1-  00000001             Bank 4-  00110100
        Bank 2-  11001000             Bank 5-  01010100
        Bank 3-  01110111             Bank 6-  00001000

       (1 =  Power Light is  ON  0 = Power Light is  OFF) 
   
     3.  To change the menu settings:
  
         a.  Place the cursor on the "BANK" block.

         b.  Select the block by pressing the "0" button. The indicator light will show which of the 8 banks is currently
              active.

         c.  Select the block whose number corresponds to the number of the bank you wish to set.

         d.  Select the "SETUP" block.  The BANK indicator will go off and the SETUP indicator will go on.  The lights in
              the eight numbered blocks now indicate the status of the switches in that bank. 

         e.  The Pick 0 button will toggle the light of each block to the setting you wish.

         f.  Repeat steps "a" through "e" for each bank requiring changes.

         g.  When finished, EXIT by hitting the "SETUP" box again.

C.  Enabling Support for Legacy Tablet and Two Input Devices

    1.  Enabling Legacy mode is neccessary to add support for this model.

        a.   Switch to the Windows directory by typing, "CD\WINDOWS" [ENTER].

        b.   Type EDIT SYSTEM.INI [ENTER].

        c.   Locate the section titled, "[pen driver]"

        d.   Edit the settings in the [pen driver] section to appear as follows:

             pencom=x          ;x= the COM port # the tablet uses
             pentab=legacy
             calaft=0
             usebaud=9600              

    2.   The Wintab™ driver supports two pointing devices in Windows; a mouse and a digitizer. It is possible to use
          your current pointing device as the mouse in Windows and use the CalComp tablet in applications that utilize
          the tablet. To achieve this configuration, you will need the mouse driver MOUSE.DRV loaded in the SYSTEM.INI
          file.

         MOUSE.DRV needs to be specified in the "[BOOT]" section on the "MOUSE.DRV=" line.

         a.   Change the mouse line in the Boot section to read like the following:

              [Boot]
              mouse.drv=mouse.drv

         b.   Select FILE and SAVE from the EDIT menu.

    3.  Start Windows

    4.  The tablet should be operating as your mouse pointer.

D.  Configure AutoCAD for the CalComp Driver

    1.  Start up Windows

    2.  Enter AutoCAD for Windows

    3.  Type CONFIG at the Command Line to Configure AutoCAD

    4.  Select "Configure Digitizer"

    5.  Do you want to select a different one? [Y]

    6.  Select "Wintab Compatible Digitizer-ADI 4.2 by Autodesk Inc."

    7.  Type "0" to Exit to the drawing editor.

    8.  Keep configuration changes.  [Y]

    9.  Select "Preferences" under the "Options" menu.

   10.  Select "Digitizer/Mouse" under the Digitizer Input section.

   11.  Select [OK]

E.  Configuring the AutoCAD Template (ACAD.MNU only)

    1.  Type "TABLET" [ENTER] at the command line.

    2.  Type "CFG" [ENTER]

    3.  Enter the number of menu areas.

    4.  Select "4" [ENTER]

    5.  AutoCAD will now ask you to select the, Upper Left, Lower Left, and Lower Right corners of Menu Area 1 located
         at the top of your AutoCAD template.

    6.  Enter the number of columns for menu area 1:

    7.  Type "25" [Enter]

    8.  Enter the number of rows for menu area 1:

    9.  Type "9" [Enter]

   10.  Repeat steps 5-10 for menu areas 2, 3 and 4 using the columns and rows from the following table:

        a.  MENU AREA      COLUMNS     ROWS

               1              25         9
               2              11         9
               3               9        13
               4              25         7 

   11.  Do you want to respecify the Fixed Screen Pointing Area?  [Y]

        a.  "Digitize lower left corner of Fixed Screen Pointing Area." (Defining the lower left corner of the active mole area.
             Select the lower left hand corner of the active screen pointing area located on the template.)

        B.  "Digitize upper right corner of Fixed Screen Pointing Area." (Defining the upper right corner of the active mole
             area. Select the upper right hand corner of the active screen pointing area located on the template.)

   12.  Do you want to specify the Floating Screen pointing Area? [N]

   13.  The tablet is now configured for the AutoCAD template.