10-04-2011, 02:51 PM
Thanks for the input and advice guys. I've downloaded 'meter basic' which looks ideal for the simple uses to which I'll put it, and has the merit that it's a freebie. I do have Photoshop Elements 4, Microgaphix Picture Publisher and MS Publisher, and I'm sure that in competent hands, any one of those would be fine for designing meter dials , but when it comes to finding my way around such progs without tuition, it just makes me feel a bit of a numpty. In most of the things that I do, I proably have delusions of adequacy, but software induces the opposite effect!
I do fumble my way around 'Paint' and use Photoshop to clean up dial scans and PCB layouts, but that as good as it gets.
Some people seem to do a superb job making new radio dials for such things as Ekco A22s and the like, and drawings of chassis etc, and when I ask how they came to be so good at it, they invariably say 'Oh, I just picked it up as I went along'.
Ho hum, I am not worthy!
David
I do fumble my way around 'Paint' and use Photoshop to clean up dial scans and PCB layouts, but that as good as it gets.
Some people seem to do a superb job making new radio dials for such things as Ekco A22s and the like, and drawings of chassis etc, and when I ask how they came to be so good at it, they invariably say 'Oh, I just picked it up as I went along'.
Ho hum, I am not worthy!
David
