Fusion 360 Tutorial - PCB Mounting Plates

In this tutorial we'll take a look at using PCB mounting plates for enclosure designs. We'll dive into four projects and pull out how to use PCB mounts and why they're helpful. Check out the links to the learn guides of the projects featured in this video. Thanks for watching!
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[@btecx]

Do more of these. You are a beast with cad designs. These help us more than you know. Thank you

[@puneitsingh]

Wow. I always struggle with the pcb boards enclosures. Your design technique is amazing. Looking forward for more such amazing tips. Thanks for sharing.

[@Dav4122]

Lots of hidden little tips in this video! fantastic

[@brucesdad13]

Stellar video! I feel like you've finally given me a fusion 360 workflow that makes sense. I've never understood the timeline until now.

[@deannaatkinson3004]

You have just saved a few hundred of my dwindling brain cells. This tutorial is exactly what I needed today. Can’t wait to see what other lessons you’ve created for me.

[@squishymonster3267]

Wow I really dig this idea of modular PCB adapters that go into a more rigidly defined enclosure. I think this is the approach I'll take. Thanks for sharing!

[@gorgonbert]

Nice! The “thickness” trick will save me some time in the future. 👍 Thank you!

[@jameshughes8481]

Loved this! Learned great techniques and highly flexible. Thanks for teaching this!!!!

[@zencow]

Thank you, Ruiz Brothers!
I was planning on working out how to do something like this after seeing the concept in several Adafruit projects, but you showed an easy way to wrangle Fusion 360 to accomplish this smoothly, as well as gave me some hints on dealing with more complicated designs with many components. Sometimes Fusion 360 is a struggle, but the techniques and program features you showed will make things so much easier for my projects from this point forward.

[@tgirard123]

LOVE your style and pace. I sure hope you do more of these.

[@nikenbole]

This is brilliant!
Just what i need to solve my parametric enclosure headaches with different amount of of components.

[@davidfitterman1316]

Very helpful! I learned several useful tricks about Fusion 360. Your pace makes it easy to follow. Sometimes you use a right-click or shift and I didn't realize it. The use of parameters is great. I experimented and discovered that I could add a parameter for the standoff height when I was adjusting the extrusion in the time line.

[@AzaB2C]

Awesome! Thank you so much for this. Really helped me create an electronics enclosure for my V1Engineering LowRider 3 CNC. Expecting to change the electronics over time, so being able to just reprint parts that changed is a great time/material saver.

[@mark879]

I learned a lot by watching this video. Thanks so much!

[@chemprofdave]

I prefer to import the model of the board, put it in the right place, and use Project to transfer the holes to the sketch. Having the model imported also helps visualize clearance, access to headers, etc.

[@slashghero]

Excellent explanation!

[@davidkempton2894]

Fabulous video. Really helpful. Thanks very much!

[@BenjaminK123]

this is really nice modular way of doing things i love it thank you for sharing

[@noibi23]

Awesome! many Functions from Fusion that i did not know. Nice techniques. !!!!👌

[@MicheleHjorleifsson]

filets on 3d printed corners actually strengthen the print from splitting at the joining point vs. a 90 degree join

[@Phipanjo]

Great! Perfect work.

[@haaake]

I have learned so much from these videos! 👍

[@certified-forklifter]

great video!

[@user-ni5wh9pv8r]

Wow awesome tutorial I got so many new ideas 🙂

[@hartono_motor_channel]

I am from Indonesia ,thanks information from your videos

[@yngtodd8450]

This is amazing.

[@kiwidave72]

Nice video. Would be nice to see how you would do a back to back design of two board back to back with the mount in between.

[@garryrogers6699]

An excellent video.

[@MicheleHjorleifsson]

you could create one circle on the outside, one for the feather and use mirror feature after the extrudes to mirror the extruded standoffs

[@kenheitmueller69]

really great tutorial! thank you. I'm wondering if you could have used the rectangular pattern tool for the circles in the sketch rather than drawing them individually or if that would have ignored the positioning of them when changing your dimensions in the user parameter dialog. (I guess I should just TRY it!)

[@ge2719]

is there a guide for setting up all the different pre existing pcbs, like adafruit products and being able to just import them? cant seem to find any info on it

[@Wheatie79]

For your bolts/hex nuts are you using the McMaster-Carr catalog feature within Fusion 360?

[@bthornet2]

Excellent work. Great method. Too bad solidworks doesn't have a hobbyist version.
I have to use that at work.

[@ihavecojones]

Hey dude... what do you use to move the build in the viewport like that?

[@cparrapa]

why not to use the Web feature instead for the mounting plates?

[@abdultairu]

Loved the content and I tried to follow along, but each time I tried it I am lost because as a new user I cannot find where what is, in Fusion. I bet I'll have to watch beginer's videos first. Do you have any beginer stuffs? Have you written any books on Fusion 360 that I can buy?

[@TheJay6621]

The movement is awesome, but How ???

[@shaazmaknojiya4580]

If I want to replicate a motherboard into fusion 360 because I’m modeling a desk computer how would I do that without spending hours on getting each part on the PCB correct

[@adafruit]

Search for it on grabcad or google, some manufacturers offer a STEP model of their pcbs

[@Rick-mh9wm]

ok. this guy is a god. What is his name?

[@dennisdecoene]

Ezekiel

[@Rick-mh9wm]

@@dennisdecoene thanks

[@bgrant1512]

Lost me on how you got the feather into this