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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. --- End quote --- 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? --- End quote --- 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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