CAD drawing for Mooney K or J?

[Jesse231]

So a few years ago I purchased what I believe will be my forever plane. A 1979 M20k, I planned to slowly upgrade the airplane. After being parked at the ramp in Van Nuys for 3 days my Mooney had a 3 in crack in the windshield starting from the center bottom. New windshield was ordered from a cheaper unnamed website and after not receiving it for over 3 months I switched to LP Aero-plastics and within a couple weeks had a new windshield. It was not easy to remove, after removing it there was so much access to the rear of the panel. Not wanting to ever remove the windshield again, I opted to wait for finances to line up allowing for an upgrade to a new panel before reinstalling the windshield.



Fast forward almost a year and I have ordered a Dynon HDX system with the D30, transponder, ADSB in-out, Engine monitor, COM etc. It will be paired with a GPS 175 and PS Eng PAR200 COM/Audio panel. The Century 41 Autopilot works great so the plan for now is to keep the vacuum system with Attitude and HSI to drive the autopilot. It will be installed in the cutout for the 10inch screen for now.

So now its time to work on the Layout. Below is what the panel currently looks like. Does anyone have a CAD file of a J or K Panel? Any suggestions on layout?



Thanks Everyone

 

[TNIndy]

I have an M20F with a J style panel. I will try to get you a pic over the weekend. I doubt the CAD file will work but the general layout may help. I tried attaching a word doc with all the different examples I referenced when choosing my final layout but the forum doesn't seem to allow word docs. If you give me an email address I will send it. I suggest cutting your first draft from cardboard and your semi-final from Plexiglass. I did that and still had small errors I had to correct in the final aluminum version

 

[Rhino]

If you have a somewhat recent version of Word, You can do a "Save As", and save it in pdf format, which will attach.

 

[dominikos]

I don’t have a cad file but here is a picture of what I ended up doing. It is awaiting Mooney autopilot approval. With the approval the current century autopilot is going away and 2nd HDX screen goes into its place.
I opted to keep both GNS 430s as I cannot justify the cost of a new GPS navigator and wanted to have a redundant nav/com.
I have an engine monitor, adsb in/out.

 

[TNIndy]

Saved as a pdf as Rhino suggested

 

[Jesse231]

@TNIndy this is great, Thanks. Yes ill start with card board and then transfer to Plexy before final alum.
@dominikos your panel was my inspiration. The only big change I'm thinking is, now that the back up is more aesthetic I may try to fit the D30 in the center stack.

 

[TNIndy]

Pic of my panel is attached. The right side is cut out for a second Dynon HDX. Panel is prewired and cut for the Dynon Autopilot.

 

[dominikos]

Double check what’s behind the panel. In my case there were some structural limitations which pushed radio stack down.
@liondoukis has recessed D10A mount which looked awesome. I don’t know if he is still on this forum but you can ping him on MS as I see you posted there as well.

 

[M20Driver]

Still here..