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🚀 STARDANCE DEVLOG: DAY 4The Base is Perfect, but the Lid is Destroying Me…Day 4 has been a total emotional rollercoaster. It started off amazing, but ended with me closing Fusion 360 because my brain completely melted. 🤯🛠️ What’s Done (The Good Part)I managed to fully finish the case base! Since there’s no room inside the case for the PCB and component screws, I decided to go with external mounting ears in the corners.External Mounting Ears: Sketched them out in the corners, extruded them downwards by about 6mm, and joined them to the base.Solid Build: It looks incredibly clean and ready for 3D printing.Cutouts: The USB cutout and the PCB standoffs are also perfectly in place.🛑 Where I Got Stuck (The Bad Part)And then I started working on the top lid… and everything went downhill. I’m trying to achieve that awesome high-profile look where the lid is raised and the plastic precisely surrounds the switches, OLED display, and encoder.Here is what drove me crazy today:DXF Hell: I generated the plate layout using an online plate generator and imported the DXF into Fusion. Of course, it imported 10 times larger than it should be (classic scaling/units issue). 📉Lost in Options: I tried to shrink it down using Sketch Scale, but the program started messing with me with some weird Precision 0.123 settings. The units got messed up, and whenever I activate the lid component, everything else turns translucent so I can’t even see what I’m alignment-checking against.“Kinda-Sorta” 3D Body: In the end, I managed to extrude some random body, but it looks terrible. The switch cutouts are misaligned, the encoder isn’t even showing up, and I have no idea how to precisely cut the opening for the OLED screen since I don’t have its 3D model on the PCB layout.Current Mood: Had to close the program for today because my head hurts and I got sick of constantly hitting Ctrl + Z. 🛑🙋‍♂️ SOS! Need Some Help (Question for the Comments)Guys, I honestly have no idea what I’m doing with this lid right now. If anyone has experience designing keyboard/macropad cases in Fusion 360, please help me out!What’s the easiest and most accurate way to “drill” the cutouts for 4 Cherry switches, an EC11 encoder, and an OLED screen so that they actually fit perfectly after 3D printing?Do you have a foolproof trick for importing DXF files without ruining the scale, or is it better to just draw everything manually over the PCB layout?Any advice, tutorial, or step-by-step guidance would literally save my life for Day 5. Let me know below! 👇

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