The Panel Designer needs a wide screen. Laying out a panel to scale takes room, so the designer opens on a computer, or on a tablet held sideways that is at least as wide as an iPad mini in landscape (about 1,000 pixels across). On anything narrower, a phone or a small tablet held upright, you get a page that says so, with links to what you can do there. On a tablet, turn it sideways and open the designer again.
On a phone you can
- Browse Featured designs, Panel templates by aircraft and the Equipment Library. The home page is the same one a computer shows, in one column.
- Open My designs: each design is a card with its picture and its name. Tap a card to Open picture, Save picture or Share it with your phone's own share sheet (Messages, Mail, Facebook and so on). Rename, copy and delete a design with the buttons along the foot of its card. Starting a new design, and Compare, are done on a computer.
- Answer our shop: open a CAD, Cut, Paint & Label request, read the price and the messages, and accept, ask for changes or decline.
- Open your Profile, your Membership and your card from the button with your initials at the top right, and read Help and What's new.
Getting around on a phone. The bar at the bottom of the screen holds the Panel Designer's pages: My designs, Featured designs, Equipment Library, Panel templates and CAD, Cut, Paint & Label, and, until you are a member, Membership. Slide it sideways to see them all. The square of dots at the top opens the apps: Home, Build, Panel, MRO, Marketplace, Debrief, Tools and Help.
A design that has never been opened and saved on a computer has no picture yet.
For designing on a tablet we recommend
- A screen of 10 inches or more.
- A mouse (or trackpad) and keyboard connected to the tablet. Dragging and selecting with a finger is possible but imprecise.
- To add an instrument with a finger, tap it in the search results, tap Add, then tap the panel where it goes.
An iPad Air or iPad Pro with a keyboard and mouse works well.
If something does not work on your device
- Turn the tablet sideways and reload the page.
- Update the device's operating system and browser.
- Try a mouse and keyboard.
- If it still does not work, contact us with the device, the browser and what happened.