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Title: Whats your favorite software for designing control panels?
Post by: drpcken on August 04, 2009, 04:34:15 pm

I'm sure the obvious answer is autocad, but does anyone have any hidden gems for accurately measuring and drawing out control panels ( or anything else cabinet related ) ? 

Thanks!

Title: Re: Whats your favorite software for designing control panels?
Post by: GaryMcT on August 04, 2009, 04:44:29 pm

I'm been using sketchup for my control panel design.  It's pretty easy to use an to get accurate measurements after watching the tutorial videos.

Title: Re: Whats your favorite software for designing control panels?
Post by: drpcken on August 04, 2009, 04:49:40 pm

I'm glad someone said sketckup :) I use autocad at work but I think its too robust for what I'm trying to do.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Whats your favorite software for designing control panels?
Post by: GaryMcT on August 04, 2009, 04:56:03 pm

Bender is a heavy sketchup user. . I'd dig up some of his threads (Benderama for instance) for examples of how he is using it.