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Best way to print control panel template?
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MB:
Good news! You can do it directly from Sketchup!

I printed a template for a two player CP with it. No need to tape a lot of loose pages together.
It's pretty difficult to get them straight. Just print each player's controls separately and leave all the
empty space out. I knew that the joystick hole for player one was 6 cm from the left side of the CP so
I drew a vertical guide line in Sketchup through the hole. The top buttons for the same player are 5 cm from the top. 
So a horizontal guideline was drawn through them. Then after printing I lined the two guidelines up with pencil marks
that were the appropriate distance from the side and top of the CP.
Do this for all players and tape the templates to the CP then hammer a small hole with a nail all the places you want to drill later.
Remove the paper and then drill.

BTW. Here's how to print to scale in Sketchup:

http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=36227

Good luck!
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