<DIV>Yes, I do all of my frontpanels designs with Illustrator too! In the early days, I used Decadry rub down lettering- the process would take a couple of days and a lot of work. The first frontpanel that I did looked beautiful- even for rubdown, until I laquered it- all the work I had done was ruined and 'slid' off!</DIV>
<DIV>When I do the frontpanel artwork now, I save it to disk then take it into the reprographics house that I use. They make a positive acetate which is then used for screenprint at the sheetmetal factory that does my stuff.<BR><BR><B><I>Scott Bernardi <sbernardi@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; WIDTH: 100%">I do mine with Illustrator.<BR><BR>Paul Higgins wrote:<BR><BR>> Hi all,<BR>><BR>> Kudos to René for the tips on Corel Draw. I guess you can tell I'm <BR>> still a beginner at this--I grew up using that horrible Letraset <BR>> stuff, and the move to the computer has been a big adjustment.<BR>><BR>> Does anyone else use the Corel graphics suite, Illustrator, or any <BR>> other kind of design tools? (CAD stuff?). I'm just starting to learn <BR>> Yellow Dog Linux (Red Hat on the Mac PPC chip), so I'd be especially <BR>> interested to hear about the Linux world. I know that The Gimp is <BR>> very popular for some design things, but I thought that was more of a <BR>> Photoshop clone.<BR>><BR>> Thanks,<BR>> -PRH<BR>><BR>><BR>> On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 12:50 PM, René Schmitz wrote:<BR>><BR>>> Hi Paul et
al,<BR>>><BR>>> Paul Higgins wrote:<BR>>><BR>>>> I was just wondering what types of software (if any) DIYers use to <BR>>>> create panel designs. I have used a few different things, the Corel <BR>>>> Draw graphics suite in particular, but I can't figure out a very <BR>>>> elegant way to make dial graduations (e.g. subdivide the 270 degree <BR>>>> rotation of a pot into a 0-10 scale). Has anyone figured out how to <BR>>>> do this in a way that is repeatable and quick without having to set <BR>>>> up the pattern manually (very time-consuming) and then cut-and-paste <BR>>>> it for all the pots?<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> In Corel it is very easy to do that. Create a piece of line, as long <BR>>> as your graduation shall be. A line has a rotation center, modify <BR>>> that so that it sits in the middle of your hole. (I.e. the center is <BR>>> now away from the li!
ne, and
we can rotate that piece arround that point.<BR>>> But don't rotate using the mouse, rather using the rotation scaling <BR>>> dialog instead. (Alt F8) Now enter the wanted angle (i.e. 270 divided <BR>>> by how many graduations-1), click apply to duplicate until the 270 <BR>>> degrees are full. Then group that object, and cut and paste happily <BR>>> ever after. The end.<BR>>><BR>>> Cheers,<BR>>> René<BR>>><BR>>> -- <BR>>> uzs159@uni-bonn.de<BR>>> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs159<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> Paul R. Higgins<BR>> email: higg0008@tc.umn.edu<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR><BR>-- <BR>Scott Bernardi<BR>sbernardi@comcast.net<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR>http://www.macbethstudiosystems.com<br>Home of the M3X Analogue synthesizer...<p><hr size=1><font face="Arial" size="2">Want to chat instantly with your online friends? <a
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