raises hand

You've still got a 5.25" floppy I bet (yj)

:D

I read something saying install the drivers first or it'll act in mobile phone mode (i.e. only 40% region), so I'll definitely do that.

Also, I do still have a DVD drive, though I can't remember last time I put anything in it.

Nice!

Would you make an unboxing video for us when it arrives?

Haven't used mine in 2 years ( :$ ) but plugged it in today and it works! Installed drivers from huion site and was good to go.

Not sure if a tablet is any good for cad, but will have a proper play tomorrow (NJ) and see if I can set up the buttons in a sensible fashion to make it usable.

When I was doing 3d stuffs, a tablet (even a wacom 4x6") was great for building the spline models.

What sort of 3D? I can see it being ace for direct modelling like Blender etc., but CAD is very keyboard/number driven. Organic shapes are much less common.

...but not always.

"drill your own" - YJ?

Drill Your Own Hole, the first album by the awesome Gaye Bykers on Acid. In some lists as the best album gimmick ever, the first thousand pressings allegedly didn't have a hole in the centre. It wasn't exactly true - they just didn't have holes in the label. That there is an ultra-rare 'undrilled' copy.

That'd take far more effort than I'm willing to spend.

If you're lucky I'll take some unboxing photos. :P

I think we've reached peak off-topic.

Part of me is wondering how beneficial I'll find it - I'm probably comfortable enough with a mouse to not see accuracy benefits, but being able to vary pressure should be useful enough that I use it for layer masks at least every other month. :)

Plus it'll allow me to dabble with drawing/painting, without worrying about having/wasting physical materials. Hopefully that lasts beyond the first fortnight...

Doubt it - there must be plenty more examples in the archives.

(But someone else will have to look; I'm off to wrestle with Python.)

Way easier to setup your camera and just film you unboxing it and stick it on youtube. Come on Peter!

I'll unbox something in return if you like?

Yeah, not CAD. This: https://www.hash.com/home-1-en

I didn't find my admittedly ultra-lowend Wacom graphire very useful for freehand digital "drawing" and "painting". In fact I hated it for those things. What I did find it extremely useful for was as a mouse substitute. I'm left-handed, but I mouse right-handed and run into carpal tunnel repetiive strain or wtf it's called nowadays, and the tablet is really good for giving my right wrist a break (NJ). I suppose if you're straight-up right-handed, there's no benefit. The other things are drawing spline-based paths in both photoshop and 3d, and cleaning up dusty/linty/scratchy photo scans. Really, really excels at both these types of tasks that demand extreme precision.

That'd just result in half-arsed crap, and I only do full-arsed crap. :@

Even if I skipped getting decent camera angles and ignored audio quality, there's the challenge of getting decent lighting without any studio equipment - I could probably fudge something with the relatively constant subdued natural light there is today, but not if it's too bright or cloudy like it has been on other days.

Also, I aint using YouTube, and looking into PeerTube/similar is more work.