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Cut away a space to fit the PCB within the assembly

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Cut away a space to fit the PCB within the assembly

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- [Instructor] In the previous video, we added the PCB part into the assembly, and we made some changes so that it fit correctly. We made sure that these holes and buttons lined up correctly and that the PCB wasn't too wide. But we still have an issue, that the PCB clashes with these ribs in the top half. If we do another interference detection check, we should see that wherever the PCB and the ribs overlap is still in red. We need to cut away basically a PCB-shaped cavity in this red section. To do this, we can edit the top part. So select it, and press Edit Part. Then all of the other parts in the assembly go semitransparent. Turn your model over. And start a new sketch on the top face of this standoff, and then go to a normal two view. We wants to cut away something that's just a little bit larger than this PCB. And to do this, we can expand the PCB part in the parts tray on the left here and then expand that base…

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