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dmel75:
I've got control panel button templates, spinner, trackball templates but I was wondering what you all are using to pull these things in and design your panel mockups in? I know some people are using advanced packages like Autocad, etc. I just need something simple I can pull these templates into, arrange them out and then print it on a plotter.

solowCX:
A lot of people just use Microsoft Visio, which works well for control panel layouts and may be a part of the Office suite you may or may not have.

Dropkick_Wally:
I used Microsoft Visio to design my panel.  I liked it because the printouts served as excellent drilling templates.  It does suffer from that issue with office programs not printing in the correct orientation.  Excel used to piss me off like that.  There's also some links somewhere on this site to templates specifically for Visio.

TOK:
A ruler, a piece of cardboard and a pencil.  ;)

emb:
I use visio as well. Also, you may want to check out the downloads section on the arcade controls website.There are stencils/templates (for the buttons, joysticks, etc) which you can import into visio.

http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade_downloads.shtml
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