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
Download the Sick of Beige SketchUp template that corespondes to the standard size board you want to design a case for.
Open your project and the template
Open the PCB design file of your project, and the SketchUp template design. This tutorial uses Cadsoft Eagle for the PCB design, as it's the tool we use for our PCBs, and we have standard size PCB library for it.
Match the PCB coordinate center on the template coordinate center
Our templates are positioned so the bottom-right corner of where the PCB is positioned inside the case (standard size PCB relative center in Eagle) is at the SU coordinate center. So if in your PCB design files the standard size PCB's relative coordinate center is at the Eagle coordinate center coordinate in Eagle will mirror in SketchUp.