RE: [sdiy] FPE prices = HOLY SMOKES

[rdrake]

there are a number of ways to optimize FPE files... losing the infill (if you have a darker anodized panels) is one trick; another is to combine text objects by using multiple lines and adjusting line spacing.  if you get to a production situation, the ultimate savings is to do all the graphics as a single HPGL engraving object--not very flexible, and you need a CAD program to create the HPGL.

more hints & tips here: http://www.electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?highlight=fpe&t=20883

b

>----- ------- Original Message ------- -----
>From: lanterma at ece.gatech.edu
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Sent: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:05:43
>
>I finally got around to hitting the little "$"
>symbol. Goodness  
>gracious!
>
>Preamp & envelope detector panel: $41.23
>Lowpass gate panel: $51.69 (and the Easel has two
>of these)
>Envelope generator panel $58.08
>Pulser & inverter panel: $72.65
>
>That's $265 in front panel stuff, and I still
>haven't done front panel  
>layouts for the balanced modulator and the timbre
>circuit. And I've  
>only barely started on the PCB layouts for the
>random generator and  
>the sequencer, and I haven't started the
>oscillators yet. So that's  
>another 6 more panels, eventually.
>
>I may have to rethink this...
>
>The infill is around $15 each. Maybe I should give
>up on doing the  
>blue infill on aluminum, and just go for a painted
>panel of some color  
>with the raw stuff underneath.
>
>Or maybe I should try doing the infill myself -
>someone in an e-mail  
>to me mentioned something about a lacquer pen or
>brush or something  
>like that, but I can't seem to find that e-mail
>now.
>
>Or maybe I should just have FPE do the drilling,
>and I should try the  
>lazertran thing.
>
>Or maybe I should think about all the time I'll
>spend screwing up the	
>lazertran (and come to think of it I don't have a
>color printer), and  
>save up and go for FPE and just have them do it
>right.
>
>- Aaron
>
>
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