Hey guys,
I am designing the art for my control panel right now, but I am having some problems. I first modeled my project in AutoCad. When I export what I drew, it is not full size, it is just a screen shot, so when I move it into my 49" x 23" control panel Photoshop drawing, it gets all pixelated, and that does me no good. Is there a way to export full size .bmp's, such as for a plotter or something.
upon discovering this wasnt going to work right, I decided to move to illustrator. I have never used illustrator before, and found it very frustrating. I was not able to be exact about where I wanted things, it seemd like I would just have to eye ball everything, and I dont want to have to do that. I see all of these really nice CP tempates in the forums, did people eyeball them, or is there some kind of coordinate system you can use. In Autocad, you tell it to draw a line from 1,12 to 3,24 and it draws a line connecting those two points.
Can you do something like this in Illustrator?
If not, how do people get their panels mapped out so good.
If anyone can throw out some tips on using illustrator, id be awesome.