From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS

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Cutting holes for the connectors

Cutting holes for the connectors - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS

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Cutting holes for the connectors

At this stage, we now have the board fully made, we have pems in there, and we've got the components ready to cut the holes through the enclosure at the exact location where these are mounted on the board. And we want to do that in context so if we ever move the components around on the board or the board moves around in the enclosure, we want those holes to automatically track wherever those components are placed on the board and inside the enclosure. So it makes it really easy to make modifications of the board, and the enclosures automatically adjust as needed, so it's a great way to do that. First thing we want to do is we want to make sure we're editing the correct part. So this part here is the one we want to be editing. So click on edit part, and then click on this face right here. Now, if you've got a lot of components in your design and we only have a few here, so it's not that big of deal, but if you have a lot of components, sometimes it's hard to see what's going on. So…

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