Software for designing control panels

[codenamed]

I was told by a user on klov.com that there is software for designing Control panels. Anyone know if this is true and have a link?

[Paulson]

 Well theres this from Ultimarc: http://www.ultimarc.com/download.html
 

[shmokes]

And there's Microsoft Visio.  Users have made stencils for just about every control ever made which can be downloaded and then drag/dropped onto your page.  I printed out my visio drawings, taped them to my control panel and voila.  Made all my marks from that and drilled away.

[Encryptor]

Here is one from mameroom.com that is pretty good.

http://www.mameroom.com/files/mameroomcpd.zip


Encryptor

[facesmiths]

wow and I just used a micrometer to measure out my controls and then used coreldraw.

[scotthh]

CP Sketcher?

[GAtekwriter]

I wrote a brief tutorial on using Inkscape to create your own CP template and overlay:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=82525.0

[kayoteq]

My approach is a bit reversed, different problem;

 instead of blank, I'm having to adapt two panels that have been imprecisely drilled for a conversion.

That won't quite work with the programs that are expecting straight lines, so I use Illustrator/photoshop.


I empty the panel, take as straight-on a picture as possible..

In my case, I got the appropriate art file for my game from localarcade.. so I have at least some holes to scale to and match positions.
Then I make some elements that match the holes, remove the photograph,
Then design around the existing holes,  fill in the extra holes once I get a design that works well. Helps  a bit to  work from the same
template as your original panel.. which isn't always the case.