It's great for Hexagon: tool short cuts, smoothing operations, camera dolly etc. are just button clicks instead of moving my hand around the keyboard to do the same thing. For Carrara, all the keyboard shortcuts for hopping from room to room and camera functions for dolly etc I've customized to the buttons. So, I use the mouse to point and the Contour for everything else. I'm lazy and if I move my hands too much, I get easily confused, too. ;)