[sdiy] Front Designer ( recieved! )

[Jeffry Laan]

I use frontdesigner to make my panel. Export it to hpgl and import it in
frontpanel express. It saves me 20 to 50% in panel pricing.
 Jef

 On 10/14/05, Tom Arnold <xyzzy at sysabend.org> wrote:
>
> 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...
>
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