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shardian:


--- Quote from: SKondris on May 17, 2006, 10:14:42 am ---
Again, if you have a CAD program (which I didn't/don't), then this might not be worth mentioning. I always seem to hear how a good CAD program (and knowledge of how to use it decently ;) ), can make things like this precise and a non-issue, but for me, it was an issue. :(


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You can get a 30 day trial of AutoCAD from their website. It is not too hard to learn AutoCAD (other versions of CAD can be more difficult). All you would be doing is drawing lines and circles to scale. Things can get tricky when plotting, but then there is help/tutorials in AutoCAD to walk you thru that in a pinch.
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=5603704

The only thing about the trial is that they will watermark anything you plot out. No big deal, really.


lharles:

Well, the preliminary cutting, routing, and drilling of the panel is complete.  I did find out some interesting things...

1.  Cutting MDF outside and with the wind blowing away minimizes inhalation...however, you can still get sunburned.  Yeah.  Really.

2.  The urge to immediately place the control panel top on the 'box' that it will eventually sit upon, in order to use all of the controls immediately is almost irresistable.  If you don't have anything wired you'll find, as I did, that this is really very ineffective.

3.  You really can lose yourself in your work.  I seem to be missing the hours between 8am and 5pm today.

4.  You can rely upon the folks here at BYOAC to be helpful...usually after a little ribbing and the such.  ;)

I'm hoping to have everything wired up and ready for testing by tomorrow morning, (time to burn that midnight oil - not the Australian music group - just a figure of speech).

Thanks for the suggestions and direction so far...I'll be back to pester you all again soon.  :)



Timoe:

Did you take any pictures at least?

miles2912:


--- Quote from: Timoe on May 17, 2006, 11:18:29 pm ---Did you take any pictures at least?

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Yea..  we showed you ours!

D-

lharles:

In relation to the pictures...no.  :(

I wanted to.  In fact, I've gotten sort of good at documenting the process visually up until this point, both for posts here and for the blog documenting the building process...unfortunately the digital camera has stopped functioning and I've spent all of my disposable income on the beast that is...

'The Control Panel Of Doom!'

So, no pictures...yet.  :)

I'll try and take a bunch of pics as soon as I can get my hands on a digital camera...or can afford to get film developed, have time to scan the pics, crop them, remove the red eye, and so on.

By the way, sunburn is hurty.



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