Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-24 Thread metan . lists
FYI: the ribbonsoft stopped community releases which resulted in QCAD fork called librecad, which is ported to QT4 http://librecad.org. -- metan Cyril Hrubis ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread Matthew Sager
Any websites that do this? Also, any software to design the box? I know this company will build custom enclosures. [1]http://www.tentec.com/?s=enclosures But you could probably find a metal or sheet metal place closer to you. It all depends on what you need. Typically you will

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread Stephen Trier
If you're looking for production quantities, pretty much every enclosure maker, whether plastic or metal, advertises their willingness to customize. There may be a hefty tooling fee, and they may or may not be interested in small orders. Find a company that makes something similar

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread Graheme Wilson
Inkscape is also available for the Apple Mac. However the version I use doesn't seem to work as well as the Linux version for some reason. Graheme As for software, the mechanical engineers at my workplace design cases in Solidworks. It looks very expensive. :-) Some of the

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread Graheme Wilson
Inkscape is also available for the Apple Mac. However the version I use doesn't seem to work as well as the Linux version for some reason. Graheme As for software, the mechanical engineers at my workplace design cases in Solidworks. It looks very expensive. :-) Some of the

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Stephen Trier wrote: As for software, the mechanical engineers at my workplace design cases in Solidworks. It looks very expensive. :-) It is. Even here in academia, where CAD companies generally try to lure future users, the license was a subject of an investment grant. A viable

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread yamazakir2
Let me re-iteraite what i am looking for. I'm looking for mid quantity production run, maybe 50-100. Also looking for a plastic enclosure with nothing fancy, just a box with cutouts for I/O ports. As for the CAD software, I don't need anything robust, just something simple that can make what I

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread Bob Paddock
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:24 PM, yamazakir2 yamazak...@gmail.com wrote: Let me re-iteraite what i am looking for. I'm looking for mid quantity production run, maybe 50-100. Also looking for a plastic enclosure with nothing fancy, just a box with cutouts for I/O ports. You could pick up a

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread John Griessen
On 02/18/11 13:24, yamazakir2 wrote: As for the CAD software, I don't need anything robust, just something simple that can make what I described above. Free/open source would be great. HeeksCAD is very usable 3D. With it you can quickly do booleans to create ports, slots, etc. It uses a 2D

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread Ben Jackson
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 03:08:27PM -0600, John Griessen wrote: HeeksCAD is very usable 3D. With it you can quickly do booleans to create ports, slots, etc. It uses a 2D layer called sketch frequently to transfer a shape into 3D. If you want to warp ahead a few years worth of development

Re: gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-18 Thread Michael Sokolov
On 02/17/2011 08:33 PM, yamazakir2 wrote: I have never done this before, but I want to fab some customized boxes for some pcbs I'll be making in the future. I want custom dimensions and custom cutouts and custom mounting posts for the pcb. I have used the services of Vinatech Engineering Inc.

gEDA-user: any place that fabs custom project boxes?

2011-02-17 Thread yamazakir2
I have never done this before, but I want to fab some customized boxes for some pcbs I'll be making in the future. I want custom dimensions and custom cutouts and custom mounting posts for the pcb. Any websites that do this? Also, any software to design the box? Thanks