{"id":382,"date":"2014-02-07T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.4\/?p=382"},"modified":"2018-01-09T06:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T14:48:35","slug":"3d-design-pcb-and-casing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/?p=382","title":{"rendered":"3D Design &#8211; PCB and Casing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was working on the Planet Bike tail light, I had designed a custom PCB and had it manufactured using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expresspcb.com\/\">ExpressPCB<\/a>.\u00a0 I had etched my own boards before.\u00a0 This was a big improvement from that experience.\u00a0 I initially tried to use proto board and ended up damaging the components while I assembled them.\u00a0 I would have spent more time doing it any other way.<\/p>\n<p>While brainstorming ideas about a case design, I thought something 3D should already be available.\u00a0 It turns out there was.\u00a0 Google&#8217;s SketchUp has an <a href=\"http:\/\/eagleup.wordpress.com\/\">Eagle plug-ins<\/a> available, but the PCB has to be drawn already with Eagle CAD.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t really want to change gears and learn a new CAD program unless I know I&#8217;ll get something from it.\u00a0 If I can find some good tutorials, examples, and ease of setup, then I&#8217;ll take a stab at it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1AXwjZoyNno\" height=\"135\" width=\"240\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Another interesting 3D offering is DesignSpark PCB, they even offer a way to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ACNCB69-G9E\">port it over<\/a> to Google SketchUp.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e64o0kLTSNU\" height=\"135\" width=\"240\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ability to creat a model in 3D and having a the means to construct it will save time, effort, and materials.\u00a0 It will be a requirement for any future projects that are involving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was working on the Planet Bike tail light, I had designed a custom PCB and had it manufactured using ExpressPCB.\u00a0 I had etched my own boards before.\u00a0 This was a big improvement from that experience.\u00a0 I initially tried to use proto board and ended up damaging the components while I assembled them.\u00a0 I would have spent more time doing it any other way. While brainstorming ideas about a case design, I thought something 3D should already be available.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/?p=382\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudacm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}