Professional Stylus Pen

[Leocricia Castellanos]

Ihave a brand new Lenovo P52s (it is an awesome little laptop) and have used a Wacom digitizer for years to efficiently edit data. Now as I try to move my GIS workflows to ArcGIS Pro, something as simple as trying to use a stylus does not work.

ESRI seems to have some fundamental management problems. The low level tech support at ESRI is awesome. They always work very hard to address problems. However, as soon as a problem has to be elevated above a low level tech person, nothing is ever changed. Problems just drag on and on forever.

Jerome - I did look into your stylus support in ArcGIS Pro question and found an enhancement request - ENH-000091405 : Add stylus support for navigation within ArcGIS Pro - that is to be incorporated in a future release of AGP.

As an Esri Senior Instructor, I cannot comment development workflows for future releases as I'm not privy to those conversations. Nor can I comment on Esri Support Services either. The latest release of AGP incorporated a lot of customer requests as well as ArcMap equivalency items that were missing in earlier releases. AGP is not a completed application as of yet and future releases will increase the capability of the product. ArcMap is mature product having benefited from 20+ years of development. AGP was initially released in late 2015 and it has some amazing functionality with much more development yet to come.

However, I have run a business centered around ESRI products for more than 10 years. ESRI does have fundamental quality control and management problems. It is a wonder that some business start up has not focused on the GIS world. ESRI has turned into an unresponsive unmanaged mess.

Microsoft was going in the same direction under Steve Ballmer and there has been a huge turn around under Satya Nadella (of course MS is still far from perfect, but significantly better then under Ballmer).

Yea, ArcGIS Pro was first released in 2015... however the first release was way late compared to other companies using the same technology. And also the first release had extremely limited functionality. It should barely have been called a beta.

Also, I do understand that it is extremely difficult and expensive to develop nice software. Get your people focused and efficient. Endless meetings and half a dozen or more conference's per year is not efficient.

I am simply working with a feature class set of point data. The data set contains about 5,000 points. And I am selecting some of the stray points with my mouse and hitting the "delete" button. And the points do not disappear from the screen. The points are actually deleted... but the screen does not redraw correctly. The screen does not appear to redraw at all after the points are deleted.

Again... how can problems like the one stated directly above possibly persist for so long??? That type of problem is not even acceptable in a poor beta. Editing vector data is probably the single biggest core functionality of Arc software. And that editing can not be done without errors and bugs.

Jerome - I have not seen this delete behavior in my AGP sessions. My workflow for deleting features, click the Edit core tab, select the features to delete, and save my edits. Upon hitting the delete command, they do disappear from my map view. One thing that I've seen that addresses these inconsistencies is to delete (or rename) the C:\Users\\appdata\roaming\Esri folder and the C:\Users\\appdata\local\Esri folder (close AGP before doing this). Restart AGP and try the workflow again.

Robert... I am using the exact procedure you describe above to edit data. Latest version of ArcGIS Pro (2.2.0). Lenovo P52s laptop with Windows 10 Pro and 32 Gb of RAM(brand new about a month ago). The laptop has a NVIDIA Quadro P500 graphics card.

ArcGIS Pro has a feature under "Options => Display => Local cache" to do basically the same work around that you describe above. It fixes the problem for a while, then the problem starts again. Still, thanks for the suggestion.

I do also have a Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 3 Dock. It is very possible the problem is caused by the dock... this dock has caused a number of other strange problems related to display. And the dock does have quit a list of complaints on Lenovo's website. My problems with the dock have been relatively small up to this point and I have mostly really liked it. So maybe this is not an ESRI problem.

Still, without a relatively large amount of research, how do I know what causes the problem. And since I have found ESRI quality control lacking may times in the past... the problem automatically gets blamed on them. When I have some time, I will try to use ArcGIS Pro for a while without the dock.

Another item to research in addition to the docking station is we've seen where outdated video card drivers can cause some strangeness afoot in AGP. Since you know the make/model of your video card, go to NVIDIA's website, search/download/install the latest video card driver for your computer and attempt the workflow again. Another test to run is the "Check your computer's ability to run ArcGIS Pro 2.2" at the following URL - -app/get-started/arcgis-pro-system-requirements.htm - sometimes the information proves valuable.

The behavior of the Tape Measure Tool is but one example of this type of condition. The entire program should be examined by the usability team to confirm the program works well with a stylus as used by both left handed and right handed users.

The VCB is actually a toolbar that is locked.

Go to View/Toolbars and tick Measurements.

This gives you a floating version that can be dragged around freely. It will dock at the top or bottom and can slide left to right. You can even customise it with other tools.

Architects often do their design work in out-of office places where the only logical device to use is either a tablet or a laptop san mouse, like in an airplane, at a coffee shop, or a construction site. In most of these settings a tablet is much more convenient. Most of these out-of-office spaces do not come with mouse friendly environments.

Since this is among the top Google search results, I thought I should share this link on the Surface and SketchUp. Microsoft Surface Pro - Use caution when upgrading your Surface

It contains guidelines when shopping for a Surfacebook for use with SketchUp.

Your Surface Book seems to have a keyboard that you can use.

If you remove/disable/fold it down, you miss the modifier keys which are needed for changing modes of pointer tools, the character keys for switching between tools and some keys for controling start/end of operations (enter, delete, esc). In that case you should use an onscreen keyboard. If you have a configurable OSK, you can customize it to show only the buttons you actually need for SketchUp (e.g. maybe only modifier keys).

So a pointing device with hover mode and primary&secondary click (like a trackpad or 3-button mouse) is essential. I still like to use a stylus in combination, since for some tasks it feels more natural (you click where you see something on the screen) and for tasks similar to lasso selection it is more precise.

And now we have touch screens, ipads, and the like. We are a big step closer. Nothing like there yet but getting closer. Of course, as has been pointed out here, to make this kind of thing work is not just a question of the hardware. The software must be designed to enable it too. Maybe when the techies realize that using a pen-like device on a drawing board-like surface is so intuitive and natural that everyone will want to do it, things will start to fall into place?

During my education as a architectural draftsman I drafted with drawing ink on paper (Shortly after, we moved to cad). Now, 25 years later, I consider purchasing a Wacom Cintiq 24". The pen has two buttons. Would be possible to use them for Pan and Orbit. Everything else with shortcuts, like I do it anyway. On my keyboard and/or the little remote, which comes with the Wacom.

Could be a lot of fun.

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If you want to draw or sketch on your iPad, take notes, or navigate around apps, a stylus is far more precise than your fingertips. The best styluses offer pressure sensitivity, which is essential for serious drawing or painting on the tablet using apps such as Procreate and Adobe Fresco. A stylus can also be a good option for people who find it physically difficult to use a touchscreen to navigate their iPad.

Like every other non-Apple stylus, it lacks pressure sensitivity. As of early 2024, no non-Apple stylus offers uniform, full-featured, and completely supported pressure sensitivity (though some apps might offer limited support for some styluses on a case-by-case basis), and the Logitech Crayon is no exception. If drawing and painting are your primary use for a stylus, this model is a bad fit.

It works with almost every iPad. The Adonit SE works with virtually every iPad released in 2018 or later, including 6th- to 10th-gen iPads and newer models of the iPad Air, iPad mini, and iPad Pro.

It offers a lot of features and perks for the price. The Adonit SE is a surprisingly full-featured budget stylus. It offers decent tilt recognition, palm rejection, and USB-C charging. It writes well (though the nib is even harder than that of the Apple Pencil), and its eight-hour battery life is better than what many more expensive styluses offer. It also comes with a charging cable and a bundle of replacement nibs. You get a lot for your money.

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