Hi everyone,
been lurking for quite a while and figured I'll start contributing by creating a custom keyboard and then post images, source-files and such...
However while prototyping my cardboard cutout somehow got the wrong size, and I have no idea why.
Hence this sadly much less glorious first entry thread.
Edit: you can see the issues in images 20170910_225931, 20170910_225925 and 20170910_225805 below. The holes are to big, so the switch won't stick.
The steps:
01 -
The keyboard-layout-editor.com layoutMore
[{c:"#d40000",a:7,f:5},"",{x:0.25,c:"#cccccc",f:4},"F1","F2","F3","F4",{x:0.25,c:"#bbbbbb"},"F5"],
[{y:0.25,f:6},"",{c:"#cccccc"},"1","2","3","4","5","6"],
[{c:"#bbbbbb",f:3,w:1.5},"",{c:"#cccccc",f:6},"Q","W","E","R","T"],
[{c:"#bbbbbb",f:3,w:1.25},"",{x:0.5,c:"#e6c5c5",f:6},"A",{c:"#cccccc"},"S","D",{c:"#e6c5c5"},"F",{c:"#cccccc"},"G"],
[{c:"#bbbbbb",f:3,w:1.25},"",{c:"#cccccc",f:6},"<","Z","X","C","V","B"],
[{c:"#bbbbbb",w:1.25},"",{w:1.25},"",{f:3,w:1.25},"",{x:0.75,c:"#cccccc",f:6,w:2.75},""]
02 -
builder.swillkb.coma) Settings:
Switch type MX {_t:1}
Stabilizer type: Cherry Only {_s:2}
Rest of the settings left untouched.
b) This is my
untouched output svg.
c) And
this is after I manually edited the side and added some comments.
03 - I then send the edited svg-file (02c) to cotter.se
a) these are the settings I picked:
image1,
image204 - This is the cutout I got, for some reason the holes (and everything?) is a tad to large....
a) images:
image1,
image2,
image3,
image4,
image5,
image6 and
image7.
so... any idea where I screwed up?
05 - thoughts:
a) Maybe I shouldnt have picked svg as the output from builder.swillkb, because it lacks length description(?)(as in inches/mm)
b) Maybe cotter.se doesnt support svg-files that well... or not svg files that lacks certain data?
c) (While it doesnt seem like I changed anything relevant) maybe editing the svg-files created the issue?
d) a sorcerer cursed my package?
I'll make sure to create a proper thread once the keyboard is finished.
/illya_
untouched_svg.svg edited_svg.svg