rambinator Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 Hi there!I have to redo my frontpanel design in a very short time with AutoCad because there will be a bulkorder from mexico on the german forum. As I am not an expert (maybe not even a beginner yet) with AutoCad I encountered some essential problems I need to solve. 1. I have rectangular breakthroughs for buttons. These buttons will be on a vectorboard so I need to align their midpoints to a 2.54mm grind, right? With circles thats not a problem i can grip the midpoint with snap-mode on (snap to middle activated) and then drag it to any point on the grid. With rectangles I can't grip to the midpoint, the mouse doesn't seem to find it. 2. The grid is only beeing displayed in a small area around the coordinates' origin. I want it to be displayed everywhere, is this possible?I would appreciate any suggestion as I need to work this out quite fast. Thnxrambinator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fx3_hdrive Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 i'm doing autocad as a part of my college course ;D i can help you but u must describe the problem more clearlyi wouldnt recomend allinging the button cutouts to the grid since that brings its own problems, u can work out how far they are apart ,from each other, so if the pitch of the board is 2.54mm, and u want to have your buttons to be 100 mm from each other. have them at (2.54x39=99.06) that will give u allinged position,i think u can also change the grid to that and then use Move command, make sure u turn off snap to grid in the lower bottom panel.i'm at coll now so i dont have much time, exqueeze me for mistakesYarek T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambinator Posted November 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 If you find the time it would be very helpfull to explain why aligning to the grid wouldn't be helpfull, becauseit's beeing suggested in this thread:http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php?topic=1629.0 If I didn't use the grid I would have to calculate the distances for every type of button (means: [number of holes between the buttons] x 2,54 - [distance from the button's pin to the edge + play between button and edge of the hole]). that would be quite complicated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fx3_hdrive Posted November 9, 2005 Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 oh yeah i know what u mean,With circles thats not a problem i can grip the midpoint with snap-mode on (snap to middle activated) and then drag it to any point on the grid. With rectangles I can't grip to the midpoint, the mouse doesn't seem to find it.in autocad squares dont have a center point, so what u have to do is draw two construction lines through the centre, and then drag it to your allingment grid, then delete the lines1 last point. make sure that your button is in the middle of the holes on the vector board, that way u know to place your center of your button on the middle of 4 holes on the vector board(i can draw u an example, or can u send me your panel on mi email if u want me to look at it, then i could help more, (make sure u save it as a drawring file otherwise i wont be able to open it in solidworks.fx3_hdrive(at)hotmail(dot)comYarek T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rambinator Posted November 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2005 1 last point. make sure that your button is in the middle of the holes on the vector board, that way u know to place your center of your button on the middle of 4 holes on the vector boardI don't understand exactly what you mean. My idea was that i just had to choose the same point on each button (be it the center or a corner...) and align it to the grid because the only thing that matters is the distance which has to be a multiple of 2.54mm. Later when I mount the panel and the vectorboard i can move the board in any direaction till the buttons fit thru and then drill some holes in the vectorboard at those places where I have screwholes on the panel. I appreciate jour help very much and I think I will be able to send you my draft tomorrow.thnxrambinator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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