[sdiy] panel design software? (repost)

[Paul Higgins]

Hi all,

Kudos to René for the tips on Corel Draw.  I guess you can tell I'm 
still a beginner at this--I grew up using that horrible Letraset stuff, 
and the move to the computer has been a big adjustment.

Does anyone else use the Corel graphics suite, Illustrator, or any 
other kind of design tools?  (CAD stuff?).  I'm just starting to learn 
Yellow Dog Linux (Red Hat on the Mac PPC chip), so I'd be especially 
interested to hear about the Linux world.  I know that The Gimp is very 
popular for some design things, but I thought that was more of a 
Photoshop clone.

Thanks,
-PRH


On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 12:50 PM, René Schmitz wrote:

> Hi Paul et al,
>
> Paul Higgins wrote:
>
>> I was just wondering what types of software (if any) DIYers use to 
>> create panel designs.  I have used a few different things, the Corel 
>> Draw graphics suite in particular, but I can't figure out a very 
>> elegant way to make dial graduations (e.g. subdivide the 270 degree 
>> rotation of a pot into a 0-10 scale).  Has anyone figured out how to 
>> do this in a way that is repeatable and quick without having to set 
>> up the pattern manually (very time-consuming) and then cut-and-paste 
>> it for all the pots?
>
> In Corel it is very easy to do that. Create a piece of line, as long 
> as your graduation shall be. A line has a rotation center, modify that 
> so that it sits in the middle of your hole.  (I.e. the center is now 
> away from the line, and we can rotate that piece arround that point.
> But don't rotate using the mouse, rather using the rotation scaling 
> dialog instead. (Alt F8) Now enter the wanted angle (i.e. 270 divided 
> by how many graduations-1), click apply to duplicate until the 270 
> degrees are full. Then group that object, and cut and paste happily 
> ever after. The end.
>
> Cheers,
>  René
>
> -- 
> uzs159 at uni-bonn.de
> http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs159


Paul R. Higgins
email: higg0008 at tc.umn.edu