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Unstupid:

I'd move the 7th button down and left til its even with or below/right of the red line...  current config would make pressing button 4 difficult.


Jeromebechaz:

Why do you think It would be in the way?

Drnick:

 
--- Quote from: Jeromebechaz on April 24, 2013, 09:00:57 pm ---Drnick you are a legend, it forgot to mention that I need 3 mouse buttons but Jim sure I can figure out where they go as they don't really need to be in a certain position, but what I was looking for is the spacing measurements, as I don't know where I should put them haha, and if someone can tell me the size hols that I will need to drill for the ultimarc buttons, the ice-t TB, and the joysticks.

Is someone able to tell me how to connect these to the CP without having any mounting plates or bolts throat the top?

Again Drnick you are an absolute top bloke

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Thats what these images will allow you to do, they are sized so that when printed 1:1 you could just overlay it on your board and there are your drill positions.

 Drill size for buttons & Stick is 28 to 30mm. 

As for the trackball It's going to be a 3" hole you need to cut but if you are using a mounting plate you could take out the area inside the Trapezoid.  You will want to use a mounting plate for the trackball if you want to leave no marks on the surface, there are other ghetto ways of achieving this but I would go with what looks best.

I shifted those buttons so they are in a line, I was using my thumb to test and slightly raised was more comfortable for me but YMMV.

Mounting the joysticks so that there are no screws,  Did you get standard handles or long handles, do you want to undermount or top mount.  I personally undermounted. see the following threads for some assistance on this. Also see my build thread right at the bottom for how I did it.

I would download gimp, learn a little about how to move layers (Remove alpha channel before moving then apply alpha again once moved)
and then shift things around as you see fit.  Joystick and 6 buttons are 1 layer 7th button is an individual layer, the 4 admin buttons are also one layer, everything else has its own layer if I remember correctly  ::)

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69151.0
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130690.0.html

Jeromebechaz:

Alright thanks dude.

But my printer doesn't print that big. How do you achieve that?
Also I didn't want to use a mounting plate because I wanted to see the artwork underneath. Any tutorials on this?
Thanks for you help

Drnick:


--- Quote from: Jeromebechaz on April 25, 2013, 06:50:32 am ---Alright thanks dude.

But my printer doesn't print that big. How do you achieve that?
Also I didn't want to use a mounting plate because I wanted to see the artwork underneath. Any tutorials on this?
Thanks for you help

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You could always route out the cp top the size and depth of the mounting plate and then put the artwork over the top of the mounting plate :dunno  If you search for Trackball Mounting here you will see various threads with various methods.  The hanger method seems to work quite well.

As for Printing get Adobe Reader, open pdf document, file, print, Change page sizing and handling to poster. Set scale to 100%, set overlap to 0.005 set cutmarks and labels.   Either that or take it to a printers that can do a large print for you.   

See following thread for Trackball mounting with flush mount and plate. (Note I have already reversed the plate in your diagram)

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,119081.0.html





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