Guides
Tips, guides and procedures in Front Panel Designer.
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AI assistant
Control Front Panel Designer with AI support and realize your projects directly and efficiently by entering text.
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Procurement
We can procure materials, powder coatings or engraving colours for you that are not listed as standard in Front Panel Designer.
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Aluminium raw
Bending
We can machine your front panel with a precise angle along one or more edges.
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Natural-coloured, anodised front panel with display cut-out and a precisely fitted red acrylic insert alongside.
Displays
Here you can find out how to create cut-outs for displays including the matching acrylic pane in Front Panel Designer.
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UV flatbed large-format printer with aluminium panel printed in a pop art design
Printing specifications
For optimal printing results, please refer to the information sheet for our printing specifications.
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Front panel with tapped hole in one end face
EMC slots
We can mill slots into the end faces of your front panel for the use of EMC contact springs.
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Exploded view of a natural anodised enclosure with enclosure profiles.
Enclosure construction
The Front Panel Designer gives you the option to create a complete enclosure. For more in-depth information, download the enclosure manual.
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Pre-fabricated electronics enclosure
Non-produced elements & object IDs
For greater clarity, you can add non-produced elements, object IDs, and comments.
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A business card held in hand, showing the company logo on the reverse side, is also depicted as a milled engraving on the red anodised front panel.
HPGL engraving
This guide shows you how to create your own HPGL engravings using CorelDRAW.
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Black anodised aluminium with a subsequently ground edge.
Edge sanding
For scratch-free, matt end faces, we can grind the outer edge of your front panel and remove any machining marks.
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Handheld Schroff front panel made from customer-supplied material.
Providing your own material
Would you like to supply your own material for machining? Here you can find out what you need to bear in mind in the program and when supplying the material.
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Four small, fanned-out front panels with drilled holes and a black matt anodised finish.
Subsequent anodizing
As standard, our cut edges are bare and untreated. If you prefer coloured edges, we can anodize your front panel afterwards.
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Red anodised Raspberry Pi folding enclosure with three front slots and a clear acrylic top panel providing a view of the installed circuit board.
Raspberry Pi enclosure
Particularly small enclosures can be produced as foldable enclosures. The foldable enclosure script is available for download.
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Wall-mounted installation of a Raspberry Pi touch display with a powder-coated aluminium frame.
Raspberry wall mount
Whether for smart home control or a media server: our decorative solution for your Raspberry Pi project.
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Pre-fabricated electronics enclosure
Scripting interface
The Front Panel Designer provides an API that allows you to define milling and engraving elements for front panels using JavaScript scripts.
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Corner of a dark grey enclosure featuring a small, natural anodised machine plate marked ‘Compressor 2’ with a serial number.
Serial numbers
Using the text engraving feature in Front Panel Designer, you can also mark a series of front panels with consecutive serial numbers.
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Natural-coloured aluminium panel with drilled holes on the surface and on the front edge.
End face machining
Threaded blind holes and other milled elements can also be placed on the end faces of your front panel.
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Pre-fabricated electronics enclosure
Character set table
The character set table provides an overview of all available font styles and their characters in the Front Panel Designer.
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