From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
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Adding components to the design - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
Adding components to the design
Components can be designed in SolidWorks, downloaded off the internet, or supplied by a vendor. However we get them, we need to build a circuit board with the key components that will have the physical interactions, with the enclosure. We also might want to model heat sinks and fans, if we're plan on doing a thermal analysis. To get started I have 3.2. Part opened up here which is the board. And I've got several other components here opened up as well. And these components here, are downloaded from the internet. So, let's go ahead and show you where those are from. So, if I click on Open, you can see under Chapter 3, Exercise files > Chapter 3 > Components, you can see there's a bunch of different stuff in this folder, that you can use in your own designs or play around with. So, several different components here. And if you go back to Chapter 3, there's also a folder called Downloads. We're not going to be using all these files. But I have downloaded some things here, for you to be…
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