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Create the PCB model

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Create the PCB model

- [Narrator] Now that we've made the controller assembly, before we go any further with this, we're going to create a basic PCB, printed circuit board, that we're going to add to the assembly. We're going to actually model up this PCB. But in real life, it's probably likely that you'll be given a PCB model by somebody else on your team and you'll work with that model. It might be the case that you're creating everything by yourself. So the actual hardware, the casing, the electronics and so on. But probably what will happen, especially if it's a more complex product, is that you'll have an electronics designer working with you. And they'll actually create the PCB for you based on their own requirements. They might then provide you with a full step model of the board or another format that you can just import directly and use. Or they might just give you a fairly basic drawing of the footprint of the PCB, and…

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