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Blanka:
Both the shops I buy from have detailed info about the items they sell:
www.arcadeshop.de
www.ultimarc.com
nox771:

--- Quote from: Blanka on July 06, 2011, 06:33:56 am ---Sketchup is great for a quick try, but not suitable for CNC as circles are polygons.

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I've heard this before, but Sketchup can have a user definable number of sides for a circle.  A 100-sided round polygon at the dimensions of a button hole should route out as pretty much a circle.  Granted it does require more careful attention to circular things, but it should be usable.  (just for fun - 2*pi*(1.125in/2) = 3.53in circumference / 100 = 0.03534in per side = 0.9mm per side, I don't know if I could see the faceted sides at that resolution)
SammyWI:
Draftsight is another free cad program.  Not bad when I tried it.  Tries to be most like Autocad.  It's from the people that make Solidworks - I think they are trying their best to kill Autocad. ;)
HotDogg:

--- Quote from: Crayola on July 06, 2011, 02:54:25 pm ---Okay so.. all good sugggestions.

Now where are you finding the dimensions for buttons, switches, trackballs,
joysticks, etc?



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In no particular order:
slagcoin.com
happcontrols - seems to have diagrams with measurements for a number of items
forum search
measured some myself if I couldn't find elsewhere
Crayola:
Thanks for ther advice all.. I found Rhino 3D.. EXCELLENT program.
Perfect for designing a control panel. And they have a fully functional Trial.

So here's my jamma test bench.. now off to the CNC to cut it.

 
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