Way back in the 90s I was using AWESOME fully mapped WACOM tablets for AUTOCAD...
Eveyr command was basically on the tablet, and in the center was the screen area...
There was a printed menu-matrix configured for autocad...
It made drawing so fast (I finished second in the National CAD Olympics in ~1993 and finished a 3 hour test in in 30 minutes.)
For years this device made me extremely fast on CAD.
The muscle memory for the location of certain items, coupled with the custom keyboard shortcuts for all other autocad commands could be done with being mostly mapped to keys close to the left hand placement...
I miss those tablets. I should get another one.
The point is that if you can know what core functions you want on the extra input real-estate... you can make your workflow very streamlined.
Eveyr command was basically on the tablet, and in the center was the screen area...
There was a printed menu-matrix configured for autocad...
It made drawing so fast (I finished second in the National CAD Olympics in ~1993 and finished a 3 hour test in in 30 minutes.)
For years this device made me extremely fast on CAD.
The muscle memory for the location of certain items, coupled with the custom keyboard shortcuts for all other autocad commands could be done with being mostly mapped to keys close to the left hand placement...
I miss those tablets. I should get another one.
The point is that if you can know what core functions you want on the extra input real-estate... you can make your workflow very streamlined.