twizzstyle

Adding my vote into this rather old thread. I built my own MFD setup using some Thrustmaster cougars and some LCD panels, and didn't realize until I had the whole project done that I couldn't export the displays while using VR With Winwing coming out with a complete Hornet DDI/UFC setup later this year, it would be outstanding to have the ability to make the DDIs functional while using VR (I would rather lift my headset and interact with the screens directly, rather than trying to fumble around in VR)

Here is my complete UFC. The wiring looks a bit of a mess, but every button, switch, and knob works! I am using a Bodnar BBI-64. The main body and knobs were printed on my Ender 3, the front panels were laser engraved and then machined on my CNC router. I laser engraved button labels as well, but didn't like how it looked with the extra thickness stuck onto the buttons. For now, I just made some stickers on my inkject printer. Looks ok although the black doesn't quite match the laser engraved panels. Good enough for now, I may try to come up with a better solution at some point. I fly in VR so it's really not important, but I'm a bit picky about stuff like that so I'd still like to make it better. Black acrylic blank out panels for the LCDs for now. I would like to make those functional but need to do a bit more research into DCS BIOS and find LCDs that fit well. The angle and "stick-out" relative to my MFDs isn't to actual hornet dimensions, I had to have the UFC stick out a bit more to make room for some of the toggle switches inside the box.

Turbohamster, don’t worry I’m right there with ya. Spent a bunch of time over the holidays designing and 3D printing a bunch of hardware to integrate some LCDs with my MFDs, just assuming it all worked fine in VR. Once I realized it wasn’t going to work, I was nearly done so I finished it all anyways. Still hopeful it’ll work some day or someone will figure out another way to export the data from DCS and recreate the displays outside of DCS. That’s beyond my skill set.

I just finished an MFD project for my sim rig, and was perusing the internet for UFC ideas, not really sure if I wanted to build anything - and stumbled upon this thread. Two days later and I have all of the parts printed, the switches and buttons will be here in a couple of days, and I already have an old Bodnar board from another old project of mine ready to go! I'm not a huge fan of how the recessed lettering turned out, so I'll be laser engraving some label panels to go over the front of the 3D printed parts. Thanks for the head start on what will now be an easy project! Donation sent via PayPal! Even though I fly exclusively in VR, I'd love to have working displays on this thing... I've only skimmed through this large thread, and see a few folks have been successful with that, but I think I need to do some more digging.