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- Panel Designer features overviewThe Panel Designer lets you lay out an instrument panel on your aircraft's panel template, instrument by instrument, then export it, price it or send...
- Create a new panel designSign in, then click My designs at the top right, or choose My designs under Panel Designer in the main menu. Click New panel design. On the next page...
- Open a panel designSign in, then click My designs at the top right, or choose My designs under Panel Designer in the main menu. Your saved designs are listed with a pict...
- Save a panel designClick Save in the menu bar at the top of the designer. Saving an existing design replaces the previous version, and refreshes the picture of it on My...
- Rename, copy and delete panel designsSign in, then click My designs at the top right, or choose My designs under Panel Designer in the main menu. Each design is a card: its picture, its n...
- Add a single instrumentOpen the design you want to work on. Find the instrument. Type in the Search instruments by keyword box in the bar along the bottom of the designer: a...
- Add several instruments at oncePremium feature Panel Designer Premium To add a row or a block of the same instrument, for example twenty circuit breakers: 1...
- Select, group and ungroup instrumentsPremium feature Panel Designer Premium Select an instrument by clicking it once; a thin blue box shows it is selected. Clicki...
- Send to back, bring to frontPremium feature Panel Designer Premium When instruments overlap, the four Arrange buttons in the tool row set which one is on...
- Lock and unlock instrumentsPremium feature Panel Designer Premium Once an instrument is where you want it, select it and click Lock in the tool row. A l...
- Snap-toPremium feature Panel Designer Premium With snap-to on, an instrument you drag snaps into line with the instruments near it,...
- Construction linesPremium feature Panel Designer Premium Construction lines are guide lines for lining things up. They do not appear in an expo...
- Center an instrument on the panelPremium feature Panel Designer Premium Select the instrument and click Center On Panel in the tool row 1 in the picture. The...
- Move instruments by direction and distancePremium feature Panel Designer Premium To move an instrument or construction line by an exact amount: 1. Select it. 2. Click...
- Move an instrument straight across or straight up and downPremium feature Panel Designer Premium Hold the Shift key, then press on the instrument and drag. Once the pointer has moved...
- Align two instruments on their centersPremium feature Panel Designer Premium Select the instrument that should stay put first the anchor, then Shift-click the one...
- Align instrumentsPremium feature Panel Designer Premium Click the instrument that should stay put first the anchor, then Shift-click the ones...
- Export and share a design imageA design needs at least 3 instruments before it can be exported or shared; with fewer, the designer says "Add at least 3 instruments first". Click Exp...
- Export the equipment listA design needs at least 3 instruments before its equipment list opens. Click Equipment List in the menu bar. The designer saves your design first, the...
- Upload your own panel templates and instrumentsAsk us to add one If the panel template or instrument you need is not in the designer, contact us Contact us with the aircraft or th...
- Phones and tabletsThe 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...
- Pop-up blockedEquipment List and CAD, Cut, Paint & Label open a new tab the moment you click them, so browsers do not normally block it. If yours does, the designer...
- Request a quote: CAD, cut, paint and labelA finished design can be fabricated as a panel. What the service is, with pictures of finished panels CAD, Cut, Paint & Label....
- Zoom and scrollPremium feature Panel Designer Premium When a design opens, the panel template fills the window from the left edge to the col...
- Report a problemIf something in the designer does not do what you expect, click the bug icon, Report a problem, at the right end of the tool row. 1. Type what happen...
- Panel templates by aircraftPanel templates, under Panel Designer in the main menu, lists the aircraft in the template library by manufacturer. Click an aircraft to open its pag...
- PlacardsPremium feature Panel Designer Premium A placard puts words on the panel: the name of a switch, a breaker or a control, such...
- Keyboard shortcutsThe keys the Panel Designer answers to. On a Mac, press Command where this says Ctrl. The keys act on the panel only while you are not typing in a bo...