Okay, I've given a try to the custom plate thing, and I'm hitting a wall. I use QCAD as suggested by jdcarpe, and the .dwg file posted in the
GH CAD resources thread (which is a godsend). Here is what I'm doing:
- open the plate_components.dwg file
- select the spacebar I want, hit "copy" (ctrl+c), paste it (ctrl+v) where there will be enough room for the whole plate
- select a key, hit "copy with reference" (ctrl+shift+c), click on the reference point (the corner I want to snap to the previously placed key), paste (ctrl+v), snap to one corner of the space bar, click
- rinse and repeat until the whole plate is done (I start with the bottom row, then the left-hand modifiers, then I fill the plate with 1u holes, and finish with the larger right-hand keys)
Once it's done, I delete everything but the plate I just designed, and save it as a .dwg file. The problems show up when I try to upload my file at bigbluesaw:
Okay, so I selected "mm" (and not "inches") the first time the program started, but my file is still in inches. Then there are parts crossing, no outside perimeter and so on. Any idea whet I should do besides what I've explained to get an error-free file?