Creating the chassis and adding to CAD Pt. 2
so today i worked on adding making my CAD design look better and i also added rail / supports that will hold in the PCB so i doesn’t move which im also going to extend this to hold the screen later, added the USB-C hole and button holes
then i went into fusion 360 and i started to create my chassis, i started all over again even though last time i only had a box, i wanted to use sketches this time because it would be easier and it felt better starting off again.
first i added the supports, i went with this design where half the supports are connected to the bottom and the other half is connected to the top that way the PCB can just kinda snug in there, next i just added a opening so that the usb port would fit, then a added in my PCB so i could see if everything lined up which it did so im very thank full for that
next i added the button holes, i was kinda freaking out about this because i thought that the supports would interfere with my buttons, but if you look at the photos there is only minor inter lap which i didn’t even account for when making them so it was pure luck that this happened
now the real challenge will be creating the actually buttons because i don’t how how to make them to where they wont get stuck on stuff or how to distribute the pressure of the press all around the button because i don’t know if you can see but the button component on the PCB is a bit under the center of the button on the case, so my main worry is about hitting the button component and the button like tilting and getting stuck or not being able to come back to its unpressed position, if you understand what im saying. if you made it this far and have any ideas i would appreciate
after i finish this i was thinking about also adding a slimmer version, but that might have less features than the planned second version i tend to create because when looking at my Case in fusion 360 i realized how much space i am wasting so i dont know.
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