[sdiy] Front Designer ( recieved! )

[Tom Arnold]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:20:53AM +0100, Jorn Bilse wrote:
> Hey Tom, you do know about these guys don't you?
> http://www.frontpanelexpress.com/ The Front Panel Designer software is free (and
> it imports HPGL if you want something really special). They'll manufacture your
> front panel for you, with holes, slots, colored engravings etc, all done by mail
> order and a few mouseclicks.

Uh. Yeah.  And I've used them extensively.  One panel usually costs more
then I've spent on this software, the numbers of panels I will be making in
the next week or two would cost around $1000 and they'd be engraved which
I'm not a huge fan of. Dont mind them for one-off 19" panels like for Oakley
products.

Front Designer is intended for laying out your own panels. Printing
transparencies suitable for phototransfer use, or generating  HPGL files for
carving your own front panels if you happened to have your own CNC
equipment.

You might wanna read the archives a bit for more discussion.  Its come up a
bit in the last 4 or 5 years...
 
-- 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------
 - Tom Arnold       -  Free Synth DIY webspace http://www.sdiy.org 
 - SynthGeek        -
 - BBD Fanatic      -  "...is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" 
 - echo evho wjxo   -    Juanita Shrugs. "What's the difference?" 
 --------------------