[sdiy] dial graduations

[Michael Ruberto]

unfortunately, I don't have illustrator. besides Photoshop I also have 
Freehand but even this has no useful tools for this. I find it hard to 
imagine that these sophisticated and expensive programs don't have a 
protractor. in freehand I can constrain the rotate tool but it's finest 
resolution is 45 degrees. to get other angles I have to set an offset value 
to the constrain angle. this is just plain idiotic.

I have actually saved drawings of the Mercury-2 spacecraft's control panel 
and copied some dials into photoshop. using the shape tools I can trace the 
graduations onto another layer and use that layer for my pattern. this still 
isn't as quick as I'd like it to be but the results are quite acceptable.

please do send me more suggestions though. I appreciate them all!

~M


>From: "Fahl, Romeo" <RFahl at extensis.com>
>To: 'Michael Ruberto' <frankentron at hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: [sdiy] dial graduations
>Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 07:43:26 -0700
>
>I'm thinking  Adobe Illustrator would be a better tool for that kind of
>thing.  You can put just about anything on a path, so if you want a circle
>of outward radiating lines, you just make a custom brush and make a circle
>with it.  I haven't used this capability to do exactly what you're doing,
>but I'm sure it would be easy to set up.
>
>Romeo
>
>%-----Original Message-----
>%From: Michael Ruberto [mailto:frankentron at hotmail.com]
>%Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 6:46 PM
>%To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>%Subject: [sdiy] dial graduations
>%
>%
>%hi,
>%
>%I am in the process of designing front panel graphics for all
>%of my modules
>%so I can have them laser etched. the biggest problem so far is
>%creating the
>%tick marks to go around the knobs. I am doing it "by hand" in
>%photoshop but
>%it is really quite time consuming. is hand drawing these the
>%only way to go?
>%does anybody know a source for premade images of dial graduations?
>%
>%thanks.
>%
>%~M
>%
>%
>%
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