Bamboopad AutoCAD compatability

A friend of mine recently showed me the merits of using a bamboopad. I was wondering about the pros and cons when using it in Autocad. I have 2010 and am interested in everyones' thoughts.

While it looks interesting my question is "Would special AutoCAD-specific drivers be required like they were for digitizing tablets?"

I have a wacom tablet at home and find it very useful. If I was in your position evaluating whether or not to buy one, I would first examine what methods you use for starting Autocad commands. One issue: do you use a mouse with a scroll wheel to zoom and pan, how will you get around this without a scroll wheel. It can take some time to teach yourself how to use tablets and from my experience of them they don't suit everyone. It may be a good idea to try and borrow your friends one for a little while and try it out.

While it looks interesting my question is "Would special AutoCAD-specific drivers be required like they were for digitizing tablets?"

Bamboo pads are made by Wacom and so are supported by Autodesk.

I bought a 12" tablet from Aldi for my daughter about $39 and hooked it up loaded software and used it with no problems within autocad as a pointing device ie = mouse it had progammable buttons already available, I played for a couple of days the lack of zoom centre mouse button said take it back home, it had some nice stuff pick button word opened autocad etc did'nt try to set up as a true digitizer maybe some advantages doing tracing definately.

Did it work yes do I use it now No.

My very early days in autocad were with a 12 x 12 summagraphics digitizer, and i had my choice of a puck or a pen (they called it a stylus). Liked the idea of the pen, but it was before "ergonomics" came along and was difficult to use and too small for my hand. I always used the big fat pens and put the big rubber grips on my pencils. couldn't do that with the summagraphics pen because of a button on the barrel of the pen that had to be manipulated. Funny how things come and go.