A digitizing tablet, or digitizer, is a peripheral device that can be used to digitize, or trace, paper drawings into an AutoCAD LT drawing file, or to choose commands from the digitizing tablet overlay supplied with AutoCAD LT. With the Wintab driver, the tablet pointer can also be used instead of a mouse as a system pointer to choose menu items and drawing objects in AutoCAD LT or to interact with the operating system. The tablet pointer can be a puck or a stylus.
The digitizing tablet must first be configured and then can optionally be calibrated.
When the tablet is configured, portions of the tablet surface are designated as menu areas and a screen-pointing area.
When the tablet is calibrated, it can be used to trace geometry from an existing paper drawing or photograph into an AutoCAD LT drawing.
You can easily switch between using the tablet uncalibrated as a system pointer (Tablet mode off) or calibrated for digitizing a drawing (Tablet mode on).
Configuring the Wintab Driver
Configuring a Tablet for a Tablet Overlay
Calibrating the Tablet for Tracing
Reinitializing the Digitizing Tablet