From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure

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Add the final ports to the case

Add the final ports to the case - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure

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Add the final ports to the case

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- [Instructor] Our enclosure has now got these three cutouts on this long face but we've also got sockets on each end and we've got the LED on the top. So we're going to carry out a very similar process for those cutouts too. Your own PCB might not have this many ports or maybe it's even got more but you can use this same process to customize your own model to suit your exact needs. So with the assembly open, let's edit that enclosure top part by left clicking on it and pressing Edit Parts. So now we want to start a sketch on a plane that's parallel to this end face. So if you hover over the planes in the parts tree, you can see for me, this is the top plane. So I'm going to left click on it and press Sketch. And now we need to set a section view so we can see the ports. Click on the section view icon in the middle here and you might need to flip the direction by clicking this icon here on the left. And you can see the…

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