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Upload your own panel templates and instruments

Ask us to add one

If the panel template or instrument you need is not in the designer, contact us with the aircraft or the instrument's manufacturer and model. Anything we add is available to everyone.

Upload your own

Sign in and open Upload a panel template or Upload an instrument. Both are also reachable from My designs and from the foot of the Library page.

Fill in the manufacturer, model and variant, the size in inches, and choose the picture. The page lists what the picture needs to be, and the box shows your picture before you send it. Fields marked optional can be left empty. Click Send for review.

What you upload is available to you right away. We check every upload for accuracy and picture quality; ones that pass are added to the library for everyone.

What the picture needs to be

  • A PNG with a transparent background, so the instrument or panel sits on the template without a white box around it.
  • 72 pixels per inch, so one inch of instrument is 72 pixels. A 3¼-inch instrument is about 234 pixels wide.
  • Cropped to the outline, with nothing around it. Extra space throws off placement and alignment.
  • For an instrument, the front picture is the face as installed and the front cutout is the hole it needs in the panel; side and back pictures are optional.
  • Use a proper image editor to size, crop and clear the background.