Did I just destroy my first control panel??

[fmzip]

Is it me, or are these buttons WAY too close, I used a 1 1/8 bit??? Did I pick the wrong template on slagcoin or is the image not 1:1??

I don't have my buttons but these are what I ordered:

http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=73&products_id=398

[Generic Eric]

So the buttons are close.  Chalk it up to a learning experience and move  on. I've filled a hole, but I haven't tried to re drill in the same space.

[Vigo]

Did you verify with a ruler that your print came out as a 1:1 ratio? Your printer might have shrunk the image to fit the template on your sheet of paper. That might be too close where the lip of the buttons would be competing for the same space.

[Generic Eric]

Did you verify with a ruler that your print came out as a 1:1 ratio? Your printer might have shrunk the image to fit the template on your sheet of paper. That might be too close where the lip of the buttons would be competing for the same space.

Word

Some days it would print out for me fine.  Others, not so much.  Trust Verify, but verify.

[mgb]

I have used proper sized wooden dowels from Home Depot to fill unwanted button holes.
Used them with wood glue and proper dry time.
But you may even just wanna get a new piece and start at square one.
As already said, chalk it up to a learning experience and keep pressing on.

[fmzip]

I have no idea how to print these 1:1.

I have my printer set to not to scale, it prints the same every time.....WTF

Do you download the 72dpi image and print it? The larger the image the larger the picture prints

[TapeWormInYourGut]

Are you using an image editor to print? If not, then give that a go. 72ppi is pixels per inch. It shouldn't matter what resolution you use. Almost all modern image editors will understand this and print accordingly, as long as the fit-to-page or scale options are unchecked.

To fix your holes, it might be easier to cut out that 4x4 square and then glue in some scrap. If you go this route, then make the scrap just a tad bigger than the hole so that that you can hand-sand it to flt like a glove.

[fmzip]

I am going to start from scratch. Trip to Home Depot, $11 for a 2x4 3/4 piece of MDF, not worth the effort of repairing

Here's what I figured out with windows 8.

Open the image up in paint, click print preview, the screen will look like this, make sure you change the scaling to adjust to 100% INSTEAD of fits 1 page by 1 page , then click print and it WILL print 1:1. Regardless of what I changed my Canon printer settings to using any program other than paint, this is the only way I found to print 1:1 in Windows 8. Leason learned:

[fmzip]

Since I am starting over, what is the most common button layout everyone is using on here?

[Generic Eric]

That's  a loaded question.

If you like Street  Fighter, 6 button.  If you like anything else, I think the neo geo layout will suffice.  This is all assuming you are putting 8 way joys or a switching joystick.

[fmzip]

That's  a loaded question.

If you like Street  Fighter, 6 button.  If you like anything else, I think the neo geo layout will suffice.  This is all assuming you are putting 8 way joys or a switching joystick.

I will be using the Omni2 4/8 way on this one.

[PL1]

Since I am starting over, what is the most common button layout everyone is using on here?

The better question is, which do YOU prefer?

Answer: Impossible to say until you put your fingers on a test panel with straight and curved layouts using actual buttons.

Your fingers won't lead you astray, but our preferences might.   


Scott

[pbj]

Do you really not have a ruler or a tape measure?  The proper measurements are excruciatingly detailed on your printout.  Why didn't you double check your printout before upping your post count here?

[Malenko]

Do you really not have a ruler or a tape measure?  The proper measurements are excruciatingly detailed on your printout.  Why didn't you double check your printout before upping your post count here?

gotta agree. measure twice drill once

chalk it up to lesson learned.
As for layouts, only you know what is best for you. I went with this:

2 player version would be just cutting off the outer 2 players area.

[fmzip]

Do you really not have a ruler or a tape measure?  The proper measurements are excruciatingly detailed on your printout.  Why didn't you double check your printout before upping your post count here?

I didn't have a metric ruler or a metric tape measure. Did I also overlook the US measurements in the drawing??

NOW I have a metric ruler:)

I also assumed these images print out 1:1 since everyone uses them. They don't, particularly in Windows 7 & 8

Upping my post count? Really? I guess UCA Board Chairman's don't make mistakes, or shall I say, they don't post them?

Gotta love the internet for public humiliation, particularly from CERTIFIED BOARD MEMBERS


I think I've done pretty excellent thus far for my first cabinet. $12 mistake, I can live with that 

Hopefully this "upped post count" serves to someone else benefit

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,144431.0.html

[Generic Eric]

I've done this too.  ITSOK^TM

[pbj]

I didn't have a metric ruler or a metric tape measure.

I don't believe you.

Onwards and upwards.

 

[fmzip]

I didn't have a metric ruler or a metric tape measure.

I don't believe you.

Onwards and upwards.

 

Did you put much thought into that or are you just trying to up your post count, Mr Board Chairman?? 

You should get back to work, the tax payers demand it, or is it not a real Board you are part of, LOL?


http://uca.edu/foundation/board-of-directors/

[johnrt]

http://uca.edu/foundation/board-of-directors/

This reminds me of this:
http://www.deansproperty.com.au/Home/Profiles

Spot the IT-consultant. 

And when you click on the IT-consultant's profile you can read that he has been hired since 1992, although the company wasn't founded before 1993! 

[Malenko]

you coulda converted with google and seen how close it was (I know, not exact).  PBJ is allegedly on the UAC board, but there's no chairman.

[jdbailey1206]

You didn't destroy it.  You learned from it.  My first cab was a weecade and it was a good learning experience.  It took me 3 times to get my weecade CP made.  I would recommend NOT filling the holes with dowels.  It may hold together.  Mine did not.  I was re-drilling my holes and it ended up cracking the CP in half where I was drilling.  After rage quitting and vowing never to make another cabinet I was back at *hmrmph* getting more MDF to make my final CP.  I made the same mistake you did and assumed that my printer was calibrated correctly.  My button holes were not close like yours but the way mine was printed it caused the buttons to fit but all of the edges butted up against each other.  The photos below show how awful it came out.





Chalk it up as a learning experience and try again. 

[fmzip]

^^^^ Yikes! That's some bondo

What I really learned from this is that images don't automatically print 1:1. Even with no scaling set in the printer settings, they don't print 1:1.

I always measure 2-3 times before I cut. Now that I am equipped with a metric ruler, I will measure twice before I drill

[yotsuya]

FWIW, they're not too close. You can space them out, sure, but those spacings look pretty similar to all the times I've used them. Don't space them too far, unless you have monkey hands. 

[fmzip]

FWIW, they're not too close. You can space them out, sure, but those spacings look pretty similar to all the times I've used them. Don't space them too far, unless you have monkey hands. 

Unfortunately they are too close, the buttons will hit one another

[Malenko]

I typo'ed UCA not him 

[fmzip]

I typo'ed UCA not him 

Ah

[Malenko]

thats not a typo, PBJ gotta PBJ

[fmzip]

thats not a typo, PBJ gotta PBJ

I'm new here, he's just being a PBJ ie., D!*k?

[yotsuya]

I didn't have a metric ruler or a metric tape measure.

I don't believe you.

Onwards and upwards.

 

Did you put much thought into that or are you just trying to up your post count, Mr Board Chairman?? 

You should get back to work, the tax payers demand it, or is it not a real Board you are part of, LOL?


http://uca.edu/foundation/board-of-directors/

I think it would be hilarious if all this time, we've been trolled by one of the University of Central Arkansas Board of Directors. Damn that J. Lavon Morton, Chair and Senior Vice President & Chief Audit Executive, Arkansas Best Corporation. He's such a bastard.

[Typefighter01]

I didn't have a metric ruler or a metric tape measure.

I don't believe you.

Onwards and upwards.

 

If he is an American citizen, it is entirely possible. I believe metric items, including the Robertson screwdriver, are banned from entering the US. This problem doesn't exist in Canada, we have access to any tool we want.

[jdbailey1206]

...in Canada we have access to any tool we want.

True statement.



On a side note.  Tonight Comedy Central is roasting Canada's favorite son. 

[fmzip]

I typo'ed UCA not him 

Is it supposed to be UCA or UAC??

[Typefighter01]

...in Canada we have access to any tool we want.

True statement.



On a side note.  Tonight Comedy Central is roasting Canada's favorite son.

Well played JD my man...well played.

[yotsuya]

Is it supposed to be UCA or UAC??

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[Vigo]

I didn't have a metric ruler or a metric tape measure.

I don't believe you.

Onwards and upwards.

 

If he is an American citizen, it is entirely possible. I believe metric items, including the Robertson screwdriver, are banned from entering the US. This problem doesn't exist in Canada, we have access to any tool we want.

2 Comments from an American -

1 - I have a hard time finding tape measures and rulers without Metric. I have metric measures and prefer when they are separate from my imperials. I am assuming that is what PBJ is referring to....the incessant need for manufacturers to toss a metric scale on everything.

2 - I had to look up Robertson, but that looks like a standard square head screw. That is the preferred type of head I like to get for my impact driver. They are readily available at the hardware stores I shop at. Maybe it is only the name itself we ban? You shouldn't have named it after the Canadian guy who invented it. Americans don't like it when we didn't think of it themselves.   

[fmzip]

Curious, what does UCA stand for?


Maybe my tools are old, not a MM or a CM to be found.

All my rulers were inherited as I own my Grandmother's home. The rulers are so old, they don't even have 1/16th's!

[Slippyblade]

Wow.  I don't think I've got a measurement device that doesn't have imperial on one side and metric on the other.

[Le Chuck]

Curious, what does UCA stand for?

The User Choice Awards.  An annual event that takes approximately two months and gives everyone on the forum a chance to nominate their favorite builds for a category of recognition, vote on those builds that received enough nominations, and grouse about how the awards are being conducted!  It's a good time had by all.  Stick around for a year and you'll see them pop up come January. 

[yotsuya]

Curious, what does UCA stand for?

The User Choice Awards.  An annual event that takes approximately two months and gives everyone on the forum a chance to nominate their favorite builds for a category of recognition, vote on those builds that received enough nominations, and grouse about how the awards are being conducted!  It's a good time had by all.  Stick around for a year and you'll see them pop up come January.

Allegedly.