See here a product report and interview about the productivity increase of the new Wacom Cintig tablets at the Imagina, the 3D simulation and visualization event in Europe - February 1-3, 2011
Monaco - February 1st, 2nd, and 3rd - the 3D community descended on the Grimaldi Forum searching for the latest solutions to the needs of professionals in the 3D industry. Wacom was demonstrably present showcasing the benefits of the Cintiq 12 inch and 21 inch tablets for design professionals and they accorded CADplace with an interview and a demonstration of these products.
Two key benefits are immediately apparent for anyone working in a visual medium such as styling and architecture. The first is the natural way the sensitive stylus allows you to work on your design. Both of these products have an incredible sensitivity. The 12 inch Cintiq has 1024 pressure points and the 21 inch Cintiq has 2048 pressure points allowing for an extremely sensitive working surface with both models. The second advantage which provides an enormous productivity gain is the Cintiq's integrated display. The main benefit delivered is working directly on the image with the stylus and avoiding a possible disconnect between the hand and the eyes and thereby providing an amazing productivity gain - a productivity gain for users that has been measured to be up to 25% more productive. Such a gain in productivity easily justifies the additional cost of a Cintiq tablet for design professionals.
The Cintiq is also easy to configure and use on a personal workstation. Two connections are required, a DVI connector for the display and a USB connector for the tablet. The tablet works easily well with Windows-based workstations as with Macintosh-based workstations. The integrated display can be configured to work in a dual-screen mode allowing more workspace for both the graphics application and the other design and CAD applications that are typically used in this domain.
The display of the 12 inch model has a 16/10 aspect ratio and a screen resolution of 1280x800. It delivers 1024 levels of sensitivity allowing for natural looking brush strokes. A great advantage of this model is its mobility. The designer can easily take this tablet to meetings with customers simply packing it along with the mobile workstation. The 21 inch model has a 1600x1200 display resolution allowing for the maximum display area and even greater productivity. This model provides an even higher level of sensitivity corresponding to its larger surface to assure a natural feel to the design environment.
Both tablets give you tilt and rotation sensibility which makes the stylus a truly natural tool for working with the tablet and makes your workstation a much more productive system when compared to working with a simple mouse. A feature unique to Wacom is the power for the stylus is delivered through an induction mechanism avoiding the problems of powering the stylus with separate batteries.
A live demonstration of the Cintiq tablet as well as all of the interviews from Imagina 2011 can be seen at the CADplace website at www.cadplace.fr/imagina .