Bcamel1

Hi Bucic Sorry I have been away with family and unable to respond. Thanks for your interest in the project, I will put more effort into keeping up with the posts and with your thread. I'll update the cover plates with one of the fonts you recommended. It should be a relatively simple step as they were designed to be separate from the switch plates. The plates were intended to be separate to simplify 3D printing as well as the ability to update fonts etc. without having to reprint everything again. At a guess the original panels were designed this way for easy reconfiguration for different customers or equipment updates. Regarding dimensions I have been working with an assortment of photos and images (some from this forum, some from google images searches, and some from grabs from youtube articles) and interpreting logical spacing dimensions on them as calibration points. The throttles were the next logical step, however, I haven't done it yet. When I do it will have hall sensors with a central bearing along the lines of the Authentikit throttle Maghall setup. I will also look to put some dampers to give it a better feel. I'm not sure about copyright on the images, however, I would be happy to share my collection if we can work out a suitable platform for the file sizes or I can try to minimise. I really like to acknowledge sources as otherers have been very generous posting them in the first place. It might take a bit of backtracking to find the source for all of them.

I used the available Fusion fonts and just looked for the ones that were similar. I have used Inkscape for vectored images before but not letters. I just checked and it was Arial Bold. Seemed ok at the time ... I have now downloaded MIL-M-18012B so will work with that however I would prefer a more relevant standard font to save time.

Font used was "looks about right". Happy to update with a nominated font. I'll look at incorporating the font on the sheet you supplied as it shouldn't be too hard (famous last words) to recreate the letters and numbers from it. I haven't had time to work on this project for a bit so probably time to reacquaint myself with the details and possibly find the correct font online myself. I do like to be as accurate as possible, however, it will never be perfect. Thanks for the links on the F5. I'll watch them to see what extra details I can include. Thanks for your interest.

Here are the preliminary "work in progress" files for the F5-E left console. Provided "as is". Hopefully you find them useful. If you need any adjustments for different switch specifications let me know and I'll try to accommodate the changes. I'll probably put the files on Thingiverse or similar in the future. Any useful feedback is also welcome. If you do print them let me know how you get on. F5-E Tiger 2 -Left console v0.0.zip

This might be the place to repost this. I'm fairly new to the DCS forum so please forgive my bumbling around. I've been working on a 3D printable F-5E Left Console. Roughly based on the 'Authentikit' process but not compatible with regard to momentary switches and universal HUB. So far, I have worked my way forward on the left console panel to the throttle quadrants using momentary switches and rotary encoders. Yes the TDC works (4x tactile switches) as does the elevation wheel (also rotary encoder). This has been an exercise in learning as much as anything else. Thanks to all who have posted images etc (especially those with tape measures in them), I have collected quite a few and watch a lot of Youtube on this plane. No, I don't have accurate design drawings to work from, however, I have done a fair bit of reverse engineering in the past. At this point I intend to stop and reassess after the throttles are done. I should have a usable rig for the important stuff with my head in a VR set. If anyone is interested (and has a 3D printer) I'm happy to provide more info and share the .stl files when they are finalised and fully tested. I will probably put them in the 3D printing topic (thanks for the heads-up Bucic) Otherwise I look forward to seeing the work of others.

Thanks for the comments Bucic. I'm fairly new to this forum so not sure of my way around yet (Google led me here first). I'll look for the topics you have mentioned (or wait for your links). I thought your prep work was really good and anticipate a really good build! I'll be watching

I've been working on a 3D printable F-5E Left Console. Roughly based on the 'Authentikit' process but not compatible with regard to momentary switches and universal HUB. So far, I have worked my way forward on the left console panel to the throttle quadrants using momentary switches and rotary encoders. Yes the TDC works (4x tactile switches) as does the elevation wheel (also rotary encoder). There are probably better versions out there (Bucic yours will be better) however this has been an exercise in learning as much as anything else. Thanks to all who have posted images etc (especially those with tape measures in them), I have collected quite a few and watch a lot of Youtube on this plane. No I don't have accurate design drawings to work from. At this point I intend to stop and reassess after the throttles are done. I should have a usable rig for the important stuff with my head in a VR set. If anyone is interested (and has a 3D printer) I'm happy to provide more info and share the .stl files. Otherwise I look forward to seeing the work of others.