Hand-held case/enclosure design using CAD tools

Nicholas Kinar · 2009-06-22T21:38:29+00:00

Hello--I am working on a custom electronics system which ultimately requires a hand-held case design. Consequently, I am wondering if anyone would know of a good book, paper or tutorial on electronics case design.How would I align the circuit board inside the case with the outside of the case? How do I create standoffs for the circuit board? How do I effectively deal with the routing of wires inside of the case? Perhaps there are more general books that are available on this type of design. Does anyone have a suggestion?As an aside, I am also curious as to how it might be possible to design an enclosure for an electro-optical system. How would I integrate lenses and an optical system into the enclosure? Are there standard mounting parts for lenses which I can model in a CAD program (and then produce using rapid prototyping), or would I simply purchase "ready-to-order" mounting parts?I've posted something similar on the newsgroup, but for this posting on I've widened the net to be broader than just using the Pro/Engineer software. I hope that this posting should be interesting to a broader group of individuals.Are there any resources out there on this type of design? Perhaps this is not of interest to those working in electronics (after all, case design is sometimes more often done by mechanical and industrial engineers), but perhaps there are some "important" books/papers/tutorials on how to do this.Nicholas

Jun 22, 2009 22 Replies

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Nicholas Kinar 17 years ago

Yes, they do. It seems that SolidWorks is *always* used with rapid prototyping machines.

Thanks, Nico.

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<castlebravo242 17 years ago

If not SolidWorks at least AutoCAD or Inventor or some other program.

Bob

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Nicholas Kinar 17 years ago

Yes, thanks, Bob. All of these program *can* do some mechanical design work.

Nicholas

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