Thanks for those ideas. I really would like black buttons with white
lettering, but the only way to get translucent buttons is in white. I
guess I could consider reversing it, and infilling the engraving.
My initial experiments didn't work well doing infilling, so I did one using
a black auto
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote:
Thanks for those ideas. I really would like black buttons with white
lettering, but the only way to get translucent buttons is in white. I
guess I could consider reversing it, and infilling the engraving.
My initial
I doubt it. Some companies won't talk to you unless you are willing to
spend $50k, the next may want $1k, its a gamble. They do put an stl of the
button on their website, I guess if I had a two color 3d printer I could do
it that way?
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Mark Wendt
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Erik Friesen e...@aercon.net wrote:
I doubt it. Some companies won't talk to you unless you are willing to
spend $50k, the next may want $1k, its a gamble. They do put an stl of the
button on their website, I guess if I had a two color 3d printer I could do
it
On 12/08/2012 08:31 AM, Erik Friesen wrote:
Really the right way to do this would be to get a silicon keypad made, but
for a one off project that is unworkable.
It sounds like you've already gone through a lot of trouble on this,
which is typical for a one off project. For all of your
Bruce Layne wrote:
If you're stuck with front surface engraving, then I'd engrave deeply
and use a lot of paint, or several layers of paint and several layers of
clear coat on top. Another trick that can work well is to use a liquid
paint instead of a rattle can of spray paint, fill the
I don't see an easy way to make multicolored silicon rubber buttons, though.
I shouldn't even open my mind to doing silicon, its one of those things
that is tempting though.
I guess I could try making my own buttons with translucent black acrylic.
I am stuck using something that will fit on top
I painted some of these
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/1WD16/679-2144-ND/2034700 buttons
today, and engraved them, but find that the paint is not curing like I
would like (not very durable), and the paint is soft enough that they did
not engrave very nice. Not only that, these are
I reverse laser engrave legend plates, device labels, operator panels
and sometimes prototype membrane switches. I've also done front surface
engraving. I assume that's what you're doing on these switches. The
big problem with that is that fingers activating the switches will erode
the
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 22:44 -0500, Bruce Layne wrote:
I reverse laser engrave legend plates, device labels, operator panels
and sometimes prototype membrane switches. I've also done front surface
engraving. I assume that's what you're doing on these switches. The
big problem with that is
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