In reply to Marks original message. After many years of using 3M
anodised aluminium products I have developed a cheap and reasonable
method of manufacturing (in small runs) face plates for instruments
designed in-house. The setup is;

Corel Draw 7 to design the face plates;
        Provides a good base to produce accurate colour designs...

Epson Stylus Photo EX Colour printer;
        Very good colour results on card and transparencies...

Avery LaserJet and InkJet labels;
        Depending on the size and quantity, Avery produce sticky labels
from
A4 size to mailing label size...

Marbig Quick Laminate Sheets (Ref. No. 91180);
        Used as a protective layer over the Avery label. Originally we  used
self adhesive clear vinyl sheets but found that in a    student
environment it didn't last the distance. This product
        is thick and tough and reasonably cheap...

Lawrence Lile wrote:
>
>  Mark.Langezaal asked:
>
> >As we just had the discussion about shareware cad programs, does anyone had
> >any
> >experience with face plate designs and what software do you recommend?
> >
> >Friendly Regards,
> >Mark Langezaal
>
> 1 word:
>
> AutoCad.
>
> If you don't know the program very well, get AutoCad Light.  It will do any
> 2 dimensional shape you can think of, and draw it accurately, it will do all
> kinds of fonts, and it's not real expensive.

Nino.
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