I have (or rather, Claude has) created a tool to convert a Tayda drill template into an SVG:
Artefact here
I created it so I can do the following:
- Create or import a Tayda drill template (e.g. from this forum)
- Click view source in the browser
- Copy all the HTML from the page source and paste it into the tool
- Click Parse template
- This will produce an SVG rendering of side A (the face) with all the holes in the same places as the Tayda template
- Import into e.g. Affinity Designer or Adobe Illustrator to create a Tayda UV print template design with the correct positions for knobs and switches
I have no idea if the Claude artefact will stay up/continue to work indefinitely, and please do double check its work, but is seems to work pretty well for me.
Update
I’ve also made one that goes the other way: you export an SVG (it’s important to make sure it has the viewport set, apparently) with the shapes of the cutouts you want as circles, rectangles or triangles, and it gives you the coordinates to put into the Tayda drill tool that match.
Note it is only accurate to one decimal place due to SVG shenanigans.
Claude artefact here
The way I use this, is to have a layer in Affinity Designer that contains the exact cutouts, around which I base the rest of the design. I then export an SVG of just that one layer and upload to the tool, before entering the coordinates into the Tayda drill tool.
It might be possible to turn this into a browser extension to automate the last step, if anyone fancies tackling that.
Artefact here
I created it so I can do the following:
- Create or import a Tayda drill template (e.g. from this forum)
- Click view source in the browser
- Copy all the HTML from the page source and paste it into the tool
- Click Parse template
- This will produce an SVG rendering of side A (the face) with all the holes in the same places as the Tayda template
- Import into e.g. Affinity Designer or Adobe Illustrator to create a Tayda UV print template design with the correct positions for knobs and switches
I have no idea if the Claude artefact will stay up/continue to work indefinitely, and please do double check its work, but is seems to work pretty well for me.
Update
I’ve also made one that goes the other way: you export an SVG (it’s important to make sure it has the viewport set, apparently) with the shapes of the cutouts you want as circles, rectangles or triangles, and it gives you the coordinates to put into the Tayda drill tool that match.
Note it is only accurate to one decimal place due to SVG shenanigans.
Claude artefact here
The way I use this, is to have a layer in Affinity Designer that contains the exact cutouts, around which I base the rest of the design. I then export an SVG of just that one layer and upload to the tool, before entering the coordinates into the Tayda drill tool.
It might be possible to turn this into a browser extension to automate the last step, if anyone fancies tackling that.
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