[sdiy] Front Designer ( recieved! )

[Jorn Bilse]

I know what you mean, I'm not a great fan of engraving either, and they only
manufacture Alu panels, no steel unfortunately, but I still think it's better
than glued on transparencies for instance.

I'm assuming that you're having your panels silk screen painted? So, do you or
anyone else know of a company like Frontpanelexpress.com who would do reasonably
priced one-off LARGE (35" wide) steel panels with silk screening and who would
accept files made in Front Designer? You see, the few silk screeners I've come
across are small low-tech workshops who wants transparencies and my measly
printer only prints A4 size, and I wouldn't trust them to make a good job of
taped together A4 transparencies. I'm in the UK btw, but any company anywhere
would be of help. Perhaps I should explain that I've got a number of restoration
jobs lined up.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Arnold" <xyzzy at sysabend.org>
To: "Jorn Bilse" <jorn_bilse at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Front Designer ( recieved! )


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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