From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
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Circuit-board basics - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS
Circuit-board basics
When we're going to bring a circuit board into assembly, as mechanical designers, we're primarily interested in the mechanical aspects of the design. And the components they're going to to be protruding through the enclosure. So we can cut the right size hole for the connector. We also might be interested in heat sources and cooling. There might be fans or heat sinks in the design. We need to account for those as well. It's best to model all the key components in the design, and then work with the board layout people to make sure that there is not a conflict with the mechanical layout or the board layout. However many times the board is already complete or is an off the shelf component that we are just going to be integrating into the design. In either case we need to model the board and the components so let's get started with the board. As you can see here I've got a bunch of components all opened up to build a design with. Now depending on what type of situation we're working with,…
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