Use digitizing pucks

With a digitizing tablet, you generally use a puck instead of a mouse to mark reference points.

To use a digitizing puck...

3Position the cross-hairs of the puck over a point on the enlargement drawing then press one of the four buttons.

Function

Button

Mouse or keyb’d equivalent

Description

Digitize corner point

1

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Digitize corner reference point when digitizing outlines.

Digitize curve point

2

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Digitize curve reference point when digitizing outlines.

Terminate omitting last stitch

3

M

  • Terminate input omitting last stitch – i.e. the fill is terminated on the opposite side as the last input point.

  • Toggle between selected fill stitch type and input method, and the Run input tool.

Terminate including last stitch

4

R

  • Terminate input including last stitch – i.e. the fill is terminated on the same side as the last input point.

  • Toggle between selected fill stitch type and input method, and the Manual input tool.