Adobe illustrator

[Barry]

People want someone else's design

Why not? It's what most of us do, copying someone else's art and maybe rearranging it, nicking it off the web, there are exceptions

 

[swelchy]

It'll take you longer than $5 to make your own. You could use this one starting now! But if you must make one, I fully understand. This is DIY after all

I just bought it.... will be a minute before I know what to do with it though..lol

 

[jojofogarty01]

These from pachyderm pedals have served me well enough. I'm less concerned about getting these exactly right aesthetically as I am overall dimensions, layout, etc. For the knobs and stuff, I just open one of the templates and copy and paste it into my project. https://www.pachydermpedals.com/tutorials/templates/

Here's one I just made for a paragon mini. The footswitch, LED, and DC jack I made, the input jacks are from that pachyderm stuff. The knobs are just the ellipse tool with line segments in them.

 

[jojofogarty01]

Another thing that I didn't do for the longest time was to change the ruler in Illustrator so that 0,0 is in the center of the artboard. It's really easy to do: just go to top left of ruler and click it then drag until it snaps to the center of the artboard, then release the mouse. When you figure out how to do that, it makes it so you can just type coordinates directly from your drill template into Illustrator. The only thing to think about is illustrator flips the Y axis so that the negatives are on the top and the positives are on the bottom. So when you're transferring coordinates just keep that in mind.

 

[jhaneyzz]

If you need help I can probably assist.

I work for Adobe and have been using Illustrator since 1988...

 

[jhaneyzz]

A cool tip is that Illustrator can open PDF files.

1. What I often do is download the Build Doc pdf file to my computer
2. "Open" it in Illustrator. (when you tell Illustrator to open a multi page PDF file it brings up a dialog box that allows you to specify which page(s) to open. Usually the drill template is on page 5 of PedalPCB build docs)
3. This will open as a new doc with your build template.
4. I lock this as a "base" layer and use it as a guide

I have a whole process use for layout, trim marks, art work layers, knob previews, etc that then get me set for preparing the art for making a laser transfer for acid etching. (I've finally worked the bugs out of that PITA process and am getting good results.

If you are interested in getting Illustrator files ready for making etching resists, I have a lot of good tips on that as well.

I also recently started using MidJourney AI to create really cool graphics.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

If you need help I can probably assist.

I work for Adobe and have been using Illustrator since 1988...

So since the Adobe fuzz is here, I guess we should stop Sharing our passwords huh?

 

[jhaneyzz]

Here is a view of my layers and such.

 

[jhaneyzz]

So since the Adobe fuzz is here, I guess we should stop Sharing our passwords huh?

Not to worry. you are not affecting the shareprice of my stock...

I will absolutely NOT be "that guy..."

 

[Harry Klippton]

Can I get your password @jhaneyzz ?

 

[jhaneyzz]

Can I get your password @jhaneyzz ?

n00_fréëkin-w@y-2023

 

[SlowAudio]

Another thing that I didn't do for the longest time was to change the ruler in Illustrator so that 0,0 is in the center of the artboard. It's really easy to do: just go to top left of ruler and click it then drag until it snaps to the center of the artboard, then release the mouse. When you figure out how to do that, it makes it so you can just type coordinates directly from your drill template into Illustrator. The only thing to think about is illustrator flips the Y axis so that the negatives are on the top and the positives are on the bottom. So when you're transferring coordinates just keep that in mind.

Thank you I absolutely needed to know this!