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May 5, 2010
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tablet + pen pressure + illustrator CS5 issue

  • May 5, 2010
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Hello all,

   I just installed Illustrator CS5 and I can't get the brushes to recognize pen pressure from my graphics tablet (intuos3).

I have tried all the combos of brushes, strokes, etc.  It looks like all the 6D options (bearing, tilt, pressure) are greyed out. Thus, the ap doesn't recognize when I am using my pen.

Oddly, the pen works great in Photoshop CS5.

I am working on Windows 7.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

_Todd

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    Correct answer Francis92104

    Got it!

    At least I think I got it working on my iMac running OSX 10.6.6.

    I heard back from Greg, a Sr. Customer Care Technician@ Wacom and carefully followed his directions (I'm paraphrasing)..

    • Go to APPS > Bamboo folder (may be Wacom on your machine) > Bamboo Utility
    • Click REMOVE button under the Tablet Software
    • Restart computer
    • Download and reinstall latest driver from Wacom
    • Restart computer
    • Go to Illustrator and get busy with the brushes

    It may have worked earlier (see previous post), but I might not have noticed Illustrator reading pressure variances from the Wacom until I adjusted a specific brush's pressure settings enough.

    For example, when I set the Pencil brush width from FIXED to PRESSURE 150%, I didn't notice the change. When I changed PRESSURE to 300% I did notice. Similar situation with other brushes' diameter settings.

    Hope this can help someone out.

    -F

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    petrn79529260
    Participant
    June 15, 2017

    What worked for me (win10 with installed newest wacom drivers) was open device manager, and with Illustrator still open and tablet pluged in, DISABELED, not uninstall wacom tablet device. After that, in Illustrator you can change the pressure settings. Finally, enable wacom tablet device back. Hope that helps.

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    laurenm75629832
    Participant
    February 24, 2017

    I am working in CC and had the same issue in illustrator, no pressure panel only random and fixed. Uninstall Wacom files and reinstall was the ticket!

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    Fakkelbrigadier
    Participant
    January 12, 2017

    Fixed.

    I had the same problem. None of these posts worked for me.

    It appears the tablet must be connected directly on your motherboard. Connecting it to a USB hub caused the problem for me.

    Hope this works.

    emmar32828647
    emmar32828647
    Participant
    November 12, 2016

    I have a wacom Bamboo and the same problem. I solved it by loading one of the wacom 6d brushes  from the brush library. When it is loaded among your brushes, you can change its pressure. It is the only one with the pressure option non-grayed out.

    cory24217
    cory24217
    Participant
    September 13, 2016

    I was having the same issue with not having the option to set the brush pressure sensitivity in AI. I removed my driver and downloaded the latest version of it from the Wacom website as recommended by several people here.  This solved the problem.

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    hypezh48309337
    Participant
    July 30, 2016

    I can't choose "pressure" to... only fixed and random

    Monika Gause
    Community Expert
    Monika GauseCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    July 30, 2016

    hypezh48309337 schrieb:

    I can't choose "pressure" to... only fixed and random

    And none of the 42 posts in this thread fixes your problem?

    Do you even have a Wacom? Or a different tablet?

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    josea27565105
    Participant
    July 5, 2016

    In the brushes window, go to options on the top rigth corner...

    go to brush library... ""Artistic_Calligraphic!!

    when you use some of the presets brush, you will added it in your normal brushes windows, THERE you can edith, NOT in the preset, JUST in normal...

    and join!!!

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    musafar7
    Participant
    June 13, 2016

    i had the same issue. it wa snot detecting the pressure options in illustrator but it did in PS.
    just close and restart illustrator. it worked for me after a while.

    flux28
    flux28
    Participant
    April 26, 2016

    PROBLEM SOLVED.

    I got my Monoprice tablet ( 10x6.25) to work perfectly with the tablet settings of illustrator brushes (pressure, tilt, bearing, etc) on my Mac. 

    Following the suggestion of this article from frenden.com, ​I installed the Wacom Intuos driver alongside the current driver* I use for my Monoprice tablet. In this context, the wacom driver doesn't do anything other than "trick uncooperative apps into operating with the Monoprice." Once this driver installed, I could access the pen pressure settings to create custom illustrator brushes.

    * I have been using the driver of the Huion H610PRO tablet, which is compatible with the Monoprice one (same tablet hardware, better driver software). I strongly suggest any Monoprice users to check it out.

    I hope this helps out fellow Monoprice tablet users

    Happy drawing!

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    TommyTwoBrains
    Inspiring
    November 27, 2015

    Did you try toggling Mode?

    ...You may have been using the pen in 'Mouse Mode' which ignores pressure input.

    The button to toggle Mode can be set in the Wacom Control Panel, but may, by default, be a button on the pen itself.

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