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Title: Control Panel design software
Post by: shinobivsme on September 26, 2013, 11:36:01 am

Hi all, you may or may not have seen my previous post, anyway im wanting to convert an old Maximum Force/Area 51 cab into a mame box,
so I have a control panel area of 67cm x 25cm I'm poop at design software and cant seem to find any of the tools around this forum that allow you to set a custom size controller (e.g. MAMEROOM just allows 2 or 4player?)

I'm hoping for a layout like http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout/z_face.jpg (http://www.slagcoin.com/joystick/layout/z_face.jpg) for each player and a flight stick in the middle

thoughts anyone?
also any links to some simple design software that lets you do stuff to scale would be great

Title: Re: Control Panel design software
Post by: koolmoecraig on September 28, 2013, 01:32:42 am

Looking for this too.

Anyone have a source for some control panel design software?

thanks!

Title: Re: Control Panel design software
Post by: shponglefan on September 28, 2013, 11:26:32 am

I think your options are going to be:

1) Graphics design software (any package should be able to do this); personally I use Photoshop when doing CP layouts and art.
2) Google Sketchup or other 3D design software; possibly overkill if you are just doing a 2D layout
3) The old fashioned way: just buy a large piece of bristol board or similar material and dry it out by hand.  That was how I designed my first CP layout.  The advantage is you get to see how it would actually look full-sized.