SeaColl
Mechanical
- Oct 25, 2007
- 2
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I’ve been looking into repetitive strain injuries for designers that use some type of CAD program. I am a Design Engineer for a Fire Sprinkler company with a small design office. After some time bouncing around the net I found some voice recognition software capable of being incorporated into AutoCAD. In my opinion the biggest drawback to AutoCAD is having to keep one hand on the mouse/design devices and one hand on the keyboard. One option is to rewrite the configuration file with you most used commands to keep 4 fingers and 1 thumb on the keyboard. I’ve seen this done with great success. One machine designer I worked with was consistently 2+ commands ahead of his computer (amazing to watch). Unfortunately for the rest of us this is not the case, Constantly having to take my hand off of the mouse to type commands even using the quick ones. I brought this topic up in the office and got a huge amount of ridicule. Does anyone out there have any experience with this type of application? What I basically see is setting up the system so you have your thumb on the space bar and pinky on the ‘ESC’ key with the other hand the mouse. By using a combination of voice commands, menu commands, AutoCAD buttons etc. to spead up the design process.
Any input would be greatly appreciated, we are using AutoCAD 2005 with HydrCAD.
I’ve been looking into repetitive strain injuries for designers that use some type of CAD program. I am a Design Engineer for a Fire Sprinkler company with a small design office. After some time bouncing around the net I found some voice recognition software capable of being incorporated into AutoCAD. In my opinion the biggest drawback to AutoCAD is having to keep one hand on the mouse/design devices and one hand on the keyboard. One option is to rewrite the configuration file with you most used commands to keep 4 fingers and 1 thumb on the keyboard. I’ve seen this done with great success. One machine designer I worked with was consistently 2+ commands ahead of his computer (amazing to watch). Unfortunately for the rest of us this is not the case, Constantly having to take my hand off of the mouse to type commands even using the quick ones. I brought this topic up in the office and got a huge amount of ridicule. Does anyone out there have any experience with this type of application? What I basically see is setting up the system so you have your thumb on the space bar and pinky on the ‘ESC’ key with the other hand the mouse. By using a combination of voice commands, menu commands, AutoCAD buttons etc. to spead up the design process.
Any input would be greatly appreciated, we are using AutoCAD 2005 with HydrCAD.
