From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS

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Placing the board in the enclosure

Placing the board in the enclosure - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: Designing a Sheet Metal Enclosure with SOLIDWORKS

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Placing the board in the enclosure

Now that we have the enclosure roughed out and we have the board, pretty much laid out with the components on there, we can go ahead and build our assembly with the board in the enclosure. So I have the two files opened up here, I have the 4.1 assembly, and I have the 4.1-2 board assembly, and let's just go ahead and drag and drop this in, so I'm going to grab it from the tree over here. Click and drag it in, and there it is, let's go ahead and expand out that assembly. Now, we're going to be putting this board on some little stand and we're going to be doing that in the next movie. So in this one we just want to place it where we need it in the design. I'm going to spin it around first because I do actually want on this side. And, let's go ahead and hide the cover for right now, so click on that and just click on hide, so you can just see in there and see what we're working with. Now, I'm going to say I want to make it over here to assembly, click on mate, and let's make these just…

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