A design can take 1 hour to 5 days to design the look you want and we are open to you completely changing your mind on the design. With custom products like our arcade speaker/fan grills and dust covers really finish the look of the cabinets.
We are also not afraid to input ideas if we think the direction of the design will flaw the final product. Quality/Design : SHAR-KADE's Arcade Cabinets are custom themed to customers requests. What Arcade (Menu) FRONTEND Should I choose? Click HERE : For Help We ship arcade machines all over the world and there is a reason people in the USA would rather purchase a arcade from SHAR-KADE in the UK. Print the design and glue it on the MDF panel what you will need to cut.You wont have to look anywhere els for the best quality built arcade systems at reasonable prices. You can also select Cut marks checkbox which will print handy alignment marks.ĥ. Select the button for Poster and enter 400% inside the Tile Scale input field.
Inside Adobe Reader (version from 2017) go to File -> Print.
Now select File -> Export -> Export as PDF and save the file.Ĥ. Then center the page by clicking on the center to page icon. The design will show up in the scale that fits to page, but you need to change the scale (in the toolbar) to a number which can be easily divided. Inside LibreCAD select File -> Print preview.Ģ.
This is a bit tricky but it can be done by following these steps:ġ. You can also export this design in actual size to PDF and print it out over multiple A4 pages.
Download here the designs for the side and the front of the cabinet that I have created. This is a very common format for designs and is understood by a wide range of design packages. LibreCAD saves the designs in DXF format. This web page offers miscellaneous panel layouts which can be downloaded and printed out. In later blog posts I will show how all these buttons will be connected. I have also added 2 side buttons for the design for possible pinball machine games, which actually belong to player 1 setup. So 6 buttons next to the joystick, 2 for select and start. I looked at several possibilities, but the one with 8 buttons per player was the most appealing to me. I could use the screen width (that is the cardboard behind the button sheets) to determine the layout of the buttons. The next part of the design was to determine how the control panel will look like. The screen had also VESA mount holes, which I could use to fasten it inside the cabinet. The screen was a 24 inch Acer P241W LCD display.Īfter taking the cover of the screen I could measure the dimensions which could be transferred into the design. I have found out that 80 degrees tilt would be optimal. The viewing angle of the screen was also important, because the screen did not have a IPS panel so it had little offset at which it could be viewed. I also needed to take into account the dimensions of the monitor that I wanted to use and the size of the control panel. This youtube channel offers a good tutorial to get you started. It had a nice and intuitive user interface and in no time I was in the process of creating the design. After a search on Google I have stumbled upon an Open Source application called LibreCAD. I started to draw the design on paper, but quickly found out that it was not the best way to do it. I have chosen for the latter as I though that it would give me more freedom in design and in the end more satisfaction. After deciding to build a bartop arcade cabinet I had the option to buy a prebuilt kit or create everything from scratch.