Front Panel Designer - Free
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 3:29 pm
I re-stumbled across this free download from https://www.frontpanelexpress.com/downloads/front_panel_designer which is used to create cutout panels for projects.
Suitible for PC, Mac and Linux.
Best thing is its free!!!!
....however....
It's designed for their service which is getting your design panels orders placed directly within this software.....however you can export into a number fo different formats (DXF, SVG + PDF) that can be directly imported into your Laser/ CNC software
I've found it relatively easy to use and define my custom cutouts and then save these as macro object to be re-used at a later time.
What can it do?
It has a number of predefined cutout, i.e. fans, DB9, DB25, knobs etc
You can create your front panel by placing the cutouts on the material and even get a 3D representation, it will even place the reference point that can be exported as part of you DFX, this is very useful for CNC
when finished export to DXF and import (in this example) to Light burn
You can also create custom parts that can be saved under user settings - Called macro objects
I'm just going to play around now with printing to see if I can use as a template that I can use on my laser cutter to cut and drill out for my panel meter.
Suitible for PC, Mac and Linux.
Best thing is its free!!!!
....however....
It's designed for their service which is getting your design panels orders placed directly within this software.....however you can export into a number fo different formats (DXF, SVG + PDF) that can be directly imported into your Laser/ CNC software
I've found it relatively easy to use and define my custom cutouts and then save these as macro object to be re-used at a later time.
What can it do?
It has a number of predefined cutout, i.e. fans, DB9, DB25, knobs etc
You can create your front panel by placing the cutouts on the material and even get a 3D representation, it will even place the reference point that can be exported as part of you DFX, this is very useful for CNC
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when finished export to DXF and import (in this example) to Light burn
- 2018-07-31_15-26-42.png (264.51 KiB) Viewed 12893 times
You can also create custom parts that can be saved under user settings - Called macro objects
- 2018-07-31_15-42-20.png (176.81 KiB) Viewed 12892 times
I'm just going to play around now with printing to see if I can use as a template that I can use on my laser cutter to cut and drill out for my panel meter.