From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
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Finish the standoffs - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing for Consumer Electronics
Finish the standoffs
- [Instructor] Previously, we created some screw standoffs in the parent path that pulled through to both of the child paths. We've made the screw posts but now we need to add the actual screw holes. And this is very easy to do using the holes. Firstly, open the top half of your controller and then spin it around so we can see those screw posts inside. Then go to the features tab and choose Hole Wizard. And we want to choose a straight tapped hole which is this option here. The standard should be ANSI metric and the size M5 by 0.8. Then the end condition can be blind and set 15 millimeters. So this means the hole will be 15 millimeters deep. You can also use imperial screws if you prefer. If you're working in inches a size 10-32 should be pretty similar. Once you got the size set, let's go to the positions tab and then zoom in and left click on the top of one of the standoffs. So now we're going to place holes on…
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