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Download the file as is. Open autocad, open file and the file should show as a drawing. I am really struggling to understand why it does not work. It does here. Don't rename it, create a new folder and stick the drawings in there. Point autocad to that folder, make sure that the default application is autocad, get rid of viewers etc. You need autocad to open the file m8 :thumbup:

Mach3, or CNC unfortunately, I'm laser dude so I can't offer any other advice. Maybe, Warhog or Boltz or HMA can help.The files for me do as they "say on the tin" so I really can't bring anything else to the table m8 :thumbup:

Can you import them?

By the way, long time no hear, how's your build going? I am in the process of using Y2's front console plans and making them skeletal. I'm using 15mmx15mm angle, having to peg board to bend, but it's coming together. Will post pix soon hopefully.

Boltz, you are correct on this one. It's a common misconception about dxf files and I am not going to go into the where's and why's in case autodesk sues me but there are more ways to skin a cat :thumbup:

Here is what it does:

Twin, What John says ^^^^^^. I have these open perfectly in autocad, got them all here opened. Do you have autocad or a dxf viewer. PM me can probably help you m8

I'm away from home today so no computer, but I will try it when I get back tonight unless someone else responds to you first.

twin They are dxf files, it is the way you are viewing them m8. What default programme are you trying to open them in?

Mine is mounted, what do you need, length, breadth and diagonal :thumbup:

Yeah I totally got that wrong, I didn't mean the laste panel, I meant the fuel panel above the throttle, thats what happens when you type on an empty head. No more tequila for me. :doh:

Skate You got a bigger heart than me, probably why you are a mod and I'm not. Some of the idiotic questions including langauge differentiation, how do you filter out the spam, some are set to wind you up. :helpsmilie:

Don't laugh but, I thought ejection seat and comfort, let's just give it a go. Contemporary guys will just go thats awful others will say that's nice, the problem came with the albatross, 2nd seat, gonna use network input/output and I need to make second seat nearly 2 ft higher. Back to the drawing boards. :)

Thanks John I accept the praise humbly especially coming from yourself, "the gauge god". Yes when I got out of hospital I had a lot of time to think and if I get bored I get dangerous, drink takes over and I become a bit of a twat. Hence poor Deadman got it, my fault totally. Not being able to do things physically just bore me down but it did give me time to think, sketch and play. I'm working on a skeletal plan from Dimebugs front console to build it in 15mmX15mmX1mm right angle, it's actually harder than it sounds. I really enjoy building things but I am really struggling to get my head round the electronics side of it. I think like a lot of guys we try to walk before we can run, I'm, trying to learn lasers, lasecad, arduino, robotics, Ian's DCS Bios, Autocad and a shit load of other stuff all at the one time, so I have decided to go with the front console, once that is done I will move to the next one. :thumbup:

Right I went through so many options about making the TM throttles cassette like, you all know when something goes wrong, ie even a lcd light, you need to get the faulty part out so you have to dismantle your whole console to sort a wire. I spent 2 nights going through as many a10 cockpits as I could find and using pixel ruler I kinda found what I needed. Dimebug did an awesome job and total respect to the weeman. looking at angles:

Wow That is a very clever solution to a quandary. You have my respect, thinking outside the box, amazing. Welcome to the problem solving community. :thumbup:

Before anyone asks, the risers on top of the consoles are not for mounting my gauges/switches. They are merely place holders for the dzus rails. :)

Love the idea but.... Viewable screen size: 155mm×86mm, might be able to use it but when you scale it MFCD, it won't work. I know you will say you dont need the MFCD outers because it touchscreen, but 155mm would be a pillarbox

No point in starting a new thread so I will incorporate the pit build with this. I took Dimebugs plans and tried to make them skeletal, honestly these two consoles took ages to build as they were hand cut/sized/angled etc. I used: I think it was pythagoras who stated, "if you have 3 mounting points you can take away a straight line without losing structural intregity" so I built them modular so that if anything gets in the way I can either move it or remove it. I'm building the TM warthog into left console like a cassette, so it can slide in and out. I mean it's not a replica, but now I have somewhere to put my laser work onto. From side oblique From Front, please excuse the mess of my cubby-hole (cleaners day-off :) )

Hi Hans my friend Yeah, been cutting, just trying to learn the power, depth and focal lens. I will put some pics together of my fails and my triumphs. The guy that said "you can't engrave a glass mirror with a 40w laser" I'm like "wrong m8". I Can show you! Anyway, I am trying 0.6mm, 1.0mm, 1.5mm, 2.0mm and 3mm acrylic, depth and kitch until I understand what it will look like on a panel. Anton had explained exploding text in autocad so I am playing around with that. Speak soon Gordy

Thanks Gadroc, I forgot to bring you into this, I totally apologise. Basically you started this whole connectivity thing and I for one am totally appreciative. I really struggle to understand this board. I am such a noob to pcb's, I have so much to learn, I thought if it can do this! I can do that! I went total x7 conversion for the laser, job done, but the more I looked at that board the more it intrigued me.

Here's the Moshi Board. This board ran everything on a 2014 Chinese Laser. I am only learning electronics as I go, but I honestly studied that little board and tried to make sense of how it worked. It's not an A-B it's an A-A, that board ran laser power through a potentiometer, pwm to fire the laser, test fire, it controlled the x and y axis,it controlled the limit switches, (they were hit or miss by the way) but it made a totally functional laser. I can't get my head around why it was able to do what it did. It had hardwired moshidraw, horrible software imho, hence I spent $750 upgrading it to the way I wanted. Ian, Anton, John, we try and make a usb connected arduino do certain things, but can anything be learned from that board. Can we not make steppers for gauges simpler. We must have done it already as the Chinese merely copy ours.

This was the z table stepper motor, (motion table up and down) The it was onto the 5v bus, I used a digital buck transformer that I used to vary the voltage on this and fed the 5v lcd with outputs available to lcd lights and laser pointers, (5V) 5v bus below. I will tidy this up, just trying to get stuff down.

Sorry about the delay, been busy with aluminium, redoing the side consoles and front console. Idea with the laser was to strip all the wiring out and just build it my way in logical steps. Hopefully it will make it easier for new guys buying chinese lasers. They are great, all the parts are there, just looks like they build them with the lights out. The moshi board was just shite, it also controlled the stepper motors for the x and y axis. Hang on will take a pic. In a perfect world no probs, factory set-up, would work, the 50.3mm focal lens on mine was set at 47mm hence I went for the z table so i could adjust it. In the uk the power supply is 240v ac so obviously we need a step down as the board, stepper motors and chip use 24v ac and the digital readout requires 5v ac as does the lcd lights and laser pointer. (these are adidtional, my choice not everyones.) First thing was to rip the wires out and put in the 24v ac supply. and feed the control board. Then it was make the 24v buses and the 5v buses. This was the 24v bus for the x and y. I know the wires look kinda scary but it's logical steps.

AtaliaA1 you are correct m8, refraction was the wrong word to use, I should have said distortion. @wormeaten I have a 4k curved screen 55 inch television, but it doesn't suit my build at the moment. I'll chop and change over the next few months I'm quite sure. The 3 X 27 = 81 inch wide, looking down, I have a 27 for helios which covers the the front gauges, and Trackir5 for the side panels until I have finished building them. Remember I said "it is one opinion, only mine", a 55 inch TV is a problem for me right now to build it in.