Customizing Sick of Beige cases for laser cutting

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Overview

Dangerous Prototypes are moving to now standard sized PCBs for which we have designed Sick of Beige cases. These cases are simple laser cut acrylic sheets that are connected with bolts and standoffs.

In this tutorial we will cover how you can customize our Sick of Beige case files for your own projects

Download and install the SVG export plugin

Download and unzip the export SVG plugin for SketchUp in the SketchUp plugins directory.

Download the Sick of Beige template

Open your project and the template

Add the projcet board coordinate center on the template

Adding hole shapes for extruding parts

Find the relative center of the component on the template

Draw the hole shape for the part

Repeat for all extruding parts

Export the shape to the SVG file

Send for manufacturing