Recent content by allison_Protocase

So happy to hear your project went well. Thanks for choosing to work with us on it!

Thanks @raystriker for mentioning Protocase. Sounds like you're well on your way, @futurewau. If you need anything, our team is here to help - you can email info@protocase.com with your design and any questions you have. We stock several gauges of 5052 aluminum (full details here). And we ship...

Thanks @FullForceRainbow for linking to us. Using perforated metal in the design would definitely be more cost-effective than laser-cutting a custom pattern of hundreds of holes! We can attach perforated metal to an enclosure by welding or using self-clinching fasteners (in this case, welding...

Thanks Edward for sharing our blog post about the new features of Protocase Designer 4.6. If you or anyone else in the SFF community have questions or feedback from using the new release, I'm happy to hear! If I don't have an answer for you, I will do my best to get it for you from someone else...

I understand completely. It's difficult for me to give many definitive answers, since our engineering & design services team are the best ones to answer those questions. So, I'd recommend getting your design as close as possible to what you're envisioning, and then sending it into...

I heard back from our lead developer, he says: 1) The locations cannot be edited because they need to line up with the board on the base 2) The templates weren't intended for modification to the 3D geometry, only size. 3) You can find SSD mounts in the Cutout Library (under Hardware >...

Sorry to hear you're having troubles. Protocase Designer is a helpful tool, but for certain kinds of builds, it might not be able to do everything you need it to. I've forwarded your comments to our Protocase Designer developer team to see if there are any workarounds. Will keep you posted!

HeroXLazer, do you have any examples of the GPU flange you wanted added to our How to Design Enclosures for Motherboard-Based Systems? We didn't get it into this update, unfortunately, but we can always add more. I checked with our engineering and design team, and they were just looking for...

New version of that resource is now live: How to Design Custom Enclosures for Motherboard-Based Systems Here are the major updates: Micro ATX boards added Height constraints added Changed mounting fastener configuration Changed PCI slots so they don't restrict protruding connectors New...

My bad, sorry about that!

I'm hoping within the next week or so. Just doing the final checks required for accuracy, etc. Hi Edward, I can't really answer your questions without being able to give more details to our engineering and design services (EDS) team. I'd recommend firming up your vision, and then sending all...

@Josh | NFC - don't know how I missed your reply so long ago, but better late than never. Thanks so much for your kind words! We're happy to support the SFF community. We're actually in the midst of updating the cheat-sheet PDF (it's chock-full of info, but dates back to 2007), so I'll keep you...

Allison from Protocase here, just wanted to add that we definitely understand your feedback re: being able to export your design in a format other than a .pda (Protocase Designer Assembly). Our software team is working on that functionality. In the meantime, our engineering & design services...

Hey @planebreaks, Allison from Protocase here. I forwarded this thread to our engineering & design services team to see if they had any feedback on your ideas, and John let me know he's already been in touch with you with some questions and comments. :) So I don't have anything else to add here...

Hi Edward, sorry for the delay - many people coming back from vacation yesterday, so I was trying to make sure I had the right answer for you before responding. Basically, because we are a custom manufacturer (with no minimum orders), we could do a case in the dimensions you'd require. You could...