Fusion 360 help please.

[ajlelectronics]

First attempt with the above Emboss facility. This is a quick creation but I couldn't work out a quick way to make the wires patterned with white/red and black/red.

 

[Misterg]

couldn't work out a quick way to make the wires patterned with white/red and black/red.

Fill your boots!

(I have done something similar with custom appearance graphics, but not this specifically. The method looks sound though.)

 

[ajlelectronics]

Development continues with a great deal of what I have learned here. I have cleaned it all up, removing duplicate sketches etc.

 

[ukracer]

Development continues with a great deal of what I have learned here. I have cleaned it all up, removing duplicate sketches etc.

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Strange I learnt to look for sketches I did not know I had made in Fusion. And objects I had created in bambu studio. Lol

 

[ajlelectronics]

Microphone pre-amplifier going in next. This is a Hammond 1590G die cast enclosure. The 3D design allowed me to easily see that it will not fit where I wanted it to on the left.

 

[ajlelectronics]

 

[ajlelectronics]

My latest component design.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Ergonomics, which front panel layout looks the best? The two reds and the white LED are a group and need to stay in line, (trigraph tuning indicator. The other two are PTT and data. One of the switches controls PTT so is associated with the green LED.

 

[Hood]

The top one for me although I would have the dial and socket swapped sides.

 

[ajlelectronics]

The top one for me although I would have the dial and socket swapped sides.

Interesting thought. I put the mic socket there because of the trailing cable, but I suppose it doesn't matter if it trails from the left rather than the right.

 

[Hood]

Interesting thought. I put the mic socket there because of the trailing cable, but I suppose it doesn't matter if it trails from the left rather than the right.

I think it is just because I am right handed so a dial looks more natural to me on the right.

 

[ajlelectronics]

 

[Hood]

I think it looks better but would be nicer if spaced as the first, ie the dial and socket centred on the switches. that one the dial is in between the switches.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Ok, it needs tidying of course.

This is the prototype electronics, although the software needs tweaking as it is ignoring carriage returns presently

 

[ajlelectronics]

 

[Hood]

Yes, better to my eyes at least

 

[Maker]

If the red and white LEDs are to be interpreted together, why put the other lights in between them?

 

[ajlelectronics]

If the red and white LEDs are to be interpreted together, why put the other lights in between them?

Because I was experimenting. Ideally they should be on their own.

 

[Hood]

Because I was experimenting. Ideally they should be on their own.

In that case what would it look like with red and white LEDs where the switches are and then switches book ended by the green and yellow LEDs.
Might look crap but ...

 

[Maker]

You mentioned they were for tuning, presumably the reds represent too high and too low, so a vertical arrangement might work nicely.