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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Betch@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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Thank you to everybody for your assistance. I managed to get to where I wanted thanks to instructions provided by @dual_sport_dork

Thank you, thank you, thank you!


Not sure if anyone can help me here. I am pretty lost and confused and wouldn't mind if someone could ELI5 something for me.

I've never used a real CAD software before yesterday night and I'm struggling a bit, I tried googling things but it's just sending me deeper into a rabbit hole of things I do not understand yet.

I'm trying to make this speaker enclosure I've seen just to do something with this shitty bluetooth speaker I have, so I decided to recreate the enclosure myself.

Long story short, I realized I kinda screwed myself after disassembling the bluetooth speaker and now I need to make a 2mm deep pocket on top of the case to snap in the buttons module. I don't really feel like starting the design again from scratch.

Anyway, as you can see in the attached image, I need to make a big round pocket on top, but both side panels are separate bodies so my pocket only goes through the main body and ignores the 2 other bodies.

I can think of other ways to achieve what I want but I'd really like to figure out a way to do it from where I am right now, if possible. I've seen the term shape binder and "union" in my searches but I can't quite figure it out.

Thank you to anyone who bothered reading this lol

EDIT: For anyone who might see this and is curious about how the enclosure is performing, I finished printing the main body and assembled it to test. Am still missing the side panels and I have to design some kind of flange cover for the driver but here's what I got so far:

Ratchet speaker enclosure test

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[-] Betch@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Oh, I actually got it working now using @dual_sport_dork's instructions but I will save your comment because that is probably the better way to do things. I'm sure I'll encounter the need for it soon enough hahah. Thank you!

[-] fluxx@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

There is indeed multiple ways of doing anything in freecad. But over time, I prefer staying in Part design as much as possible as this makes it more modifiable and customizable and there are plenty of reasons more for me. But in the end - whatever works is good enough.

[-] Betch@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah I will keep that in mind for future parts I make. For now though since this is my first time using CAD software I'll stick with good enough hahah

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