Help with Front Panel Express

Hi, I am currently doing the DIY Studer 169 EQ 500 series and I need some help with Front Panel Express, I had no problem making my faceplate with every holes placed but I don't understand how to do the -12 to +12 DB with the little lines on the gain button.

Can someone help me with this?

Thanks

Check out the scale function in the latest version.

Cheers

Ian

I actually am eager to see that, because I have a vacuum tube mic pre that I need a panel for, and the old version would allow you to do scales writing a custom script, but I never got it quite right.

You can do patterns easily with Autocad type software.

You can also brute force it with a spreadsheet to calculate the appropriate marker coordinates.

Many years ago someone posted a program that generates and HPGL file of a scale specified by inputs to the program. This can be imported into FPD and saved as a user macro object. It can then easily be imported into a front panel and it can also be scaled.

Note also that FPD has for some time allowed the import of a dxf file of the panel outline. In the latest version this has been upgraded so an entire panel expressed as a dxf file can be imported (outline, holes and text etc). I have not tried this yet.

Cheers

Ian

ruffrecords said:

Many years ago someone posted a program that generates and HPGL file of a scale specified by inputs to the program.

Ian

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Is this what you're referring to? 
http://stiftsbogtrykkeriet.dk/~mcs/Scale.html

hodad said:

Is this what you're referring to? 
http://stiftsbogtrykkeriet.dk/~mcs/Scale.html

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Not the exact one because the one you linked cannot output hpgl for the simplest scale type but the other two scale types are more useful so I think thins is better than the one I used. Thanks for the link.

Cheers

Ian

dismal,

Frank Rollen has some panels for that in his inventory if you want to check out his stuff. I am building 6 of those Studers right now and got my panels from him. He can make them any color panel and ink you want.

Will sure do! Thanks for the info

dismal said:

Will sure do! Thanks for the info

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Oh, I forgot:

https://www.frontpanels.de/