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6th March 2012, 11:02 AM #1
Inkscape for design of Dials and Nameplates etc
Hi everyone
Inkscape
in case you are looking for a PC program to make 2D SVG drawings for dials and nameplates, calibration dials for machine tools etc etc, I recommend Inkscape.
SVG is a "vector graphic" filetype where the lines and graphics are full lines and not made up of eg small dots like MS Word etc (raster graphic).
The resultant drawings and diagrams can be printed on more durable photographic paper and mounted behind protective clear 3mm methacrylate for an impressive finished article.
Free.
Websearch will find it.
Extensive web help, including YouTube.
Can save projects in SVG, DXF, PDF, JPG etc etc
Very extensive font library.
Can import overlaying JPG or scanned hand calibration layers, or almost all file types (some after possible external file type change eg in Irfanview).
Multilayer type creation and editing operation.
Takes a bit getting used to, but quite excellent.
Heres a couple of panel labels of recent radio/electronic projects.
One is "all layers" including two layout options, (but with calibration layer at half transparency) to to give you an idea of how it stacks up, and then the finished label.
The small isolated dots are drilling centres, and the labels in 80 GSM A4 paper from most printers make excellent markup and centrepunch templates.
Templates are drawn up on a background grid in mm and cm, so the printed templates can be very accurate (<0.5mm).
The layers are selectable in visibilty and degree of transparency.
The labels printed from Inkscape SVGs are excellent, a bit less so from a PDF.
The concept is transportable to machine tool labels such as indexing heads, speed selection labels, and to a lot of other projects.
cheeriio, mike
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