I need to design some analogue meter scale cards to fit in some repurposed VU meter mechanisms.
I intend inkjet printing them onto some old overhead transparency stock, but I need them to be as accurate as I can, so a freehand drawing will not work.
Can anyone recommend a package which allows accurate arcs and angles to be drawn, and symbols and numerals to be placed, to run on Ubuntu?
I use LibreOffice Draw for that sort of stuff. It is quite like PowerPoint but has better measuring capabilities (AFAIK - very long time since I used PowerPoint)
I have used LO Draw for designing parts to be cut on a Silhouette Portrait cutter. It easily gets a precision better than 0.5mm
Edit ... actually more like 0.1mm
...R
GrooveFlotilla:
I need to design some analogue meter scale cards to fit in some repurposed VU meter mechanisms.
Have a look at: Jim Tonnes Meter program
Yours,
TonyWilk
I use EAGLE for that sort of drawing. While it's normally used for PCBs, that means that it has a bunch of layering and close-tolerence output features, as well as nice things like polar coordinates and a programming language to let you generate parts of your drawing parametrically.
Like these, for instance (although, these are actually supposed to be real PCBs.)
(Other PCB drawing programs should have similar advantages...)
