[sdiy] panel design software? (repost)

[Ken MacBeth]

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!
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.

Scott Bernardi <sbernardi at comcast.net> wrote:
I do mine with Illustrator.

Paul Higgins wrote:

> 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
>
>
>

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