Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: DANCAM Upgrade???

Gary:

Sounds interesting. I hear if you cut the panel out of lexan and
countersink the intruments, then put a light on the side of the black
painted lexan, that works pretty good too.

Art

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary " <m1911bldr@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 10:27 AM
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: DANCAM Upgrade???


>
> Bill,
> Thanks for the info on DANCAM. I am not educated enough yet to
> understand all the different interface possibilities with all the
> different programs and types of files yet. I am involved in
> experimental and homebuilt aircraft and lots of people are
> struggling with panel lighting. I worked on military fighters for
> 15+ yearss an electrician and high quality back lit panels are easy
> to build and light if the basic design is correct. FAA
> certification is not in my future as all the panels will be
> more-or-less custom one-off jobs. I plan on incorpoprating fiber
> optic sourcing into the panels like the "new" fighters use. I also
> have "perfected" a way to light instruments using th epanel itself
> instead of peanut lights on the instrument edges. I'll let you
> know how this all turns out.--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com,
> William Scalione <scalione@h...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Gary wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have DANCAD/DANCAM installed and am, overall, very pleased with
> the
> > > results so far. I plan on building a "high-speed"
> engraver/plotter
> > > for making aircraft back-lit panels, etc. and would be very
> > > interested
> > > in finding a source for enhanced fonts and symbols that could be
> > > loaded into the DANCAM .dat files. Anyone ever done this?
> > >
> >
> > Gary,
> >
> > I work as an avionics technician for a major airline and after
> seeing the
> > prices of the back-lit panels (we call them light plates) I also
> thought
> > of engraving them. Problem is getting FAA certification to do this
> will
> > not be easy. I think this is one of the reasons aircraft parts cost
> so much.
> > If you are doing this for your own use, I guess the what the FAA
> doesn't
> > know wont hurt them.
> >
> > Don't know where you can get fonts for DanCam, possibly Dan Mauch
> > from Camtronics knows, he used to distribute it. DanCam can use HPGL
> > though and any graphics program should be able to output that so
> you
> can
> > use any font you want.
> >
> > Bill
>
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