What did you do today?
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Modelled a potential case for my next keyboard, an OLKB Atomic with hot-swappable switches.
Top is milled, probably from Aluminium and acts like a 5mm thick plate. Bottom is from brass, could also be aluminium, but brass looks bad-ass. Not sure whether to go for this or more of a WKL style with the two missing keys.
Now I'd need 3D models of DSA keycaps, but the only ones are found are scaled down by an order of magnitude and are meshes, so I can't just scale them in inventor.
Fun fact: half of those screws are faux (they're not actually holding the plate in place) because the mounting holes in the PCB are anti-symmetrical.
Top is milled, probably from Aluminium and acts like a 5mm thick plate. Bottom is from brass, could also be aluminium, but brass looks bad-ass. Not sure whether to go for this or more of a WKL style with the two missing keys.
Now I'd need 3D models of DSA keycaps, but the only ones are found are scaled down by an order of magnitude and are meshes, so I can't just scale them in inventor.
Fun fact: half of those screws are faux (they're not actually holding the plate in place) because the mounting holes in the PCB are anti-symmetrical.
The cap was posted here as a .obj attachment: https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=52886.msg1176686#msg1176686
What spacing are you using? 19.05, 19, 13.97, 14?Modelled a potential case for my next keyboard, an OLKB Atomic with hot-swappable switches.
Top is milled, probably from Aluminium and acts like a 5mm thick plate. Bottom is from brass, could also be aluminium, but brass looks bad-ass. Not sure whether to go for this or more of a WKL style with the two missing keys.
Now I'd need 3D models of DSA keycaps, but the only ones are found are scaled down by an order of magnitude and are meshes, so I can't just scale them in inventor.
Fun fact: half of those screws are faux (they're not actually holding the plate in place) because the mounting holes in the PCB are anti-symmetrical.
I'm trying to learn Solidworks which I'm not doing to good at.
The Atomic PCB, as all OLKB boards, has a grid spacing of 19mm. 13.97/14mm is the size of the cutouts for the switches.
@iFreilicht here's the file converted to STEP and scaled down by a factor of 100, so the key should now be 10mm wide (not sure what it's supposed to be): http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=03755022061844121930
Today I replaced my mATX motherboard by my thin ITX Asus Q87T and reinstalled Archlinux.
With PSU, Noctua NH-C14 and ODD + SSD out off the case, I'm fully eligible to the Inefficiency thread
With PSU, Noctua NH-C14 and ODD + SSD out off the case, I'm fully eligible to the Inefficiency thread
Oh yeah, good point.
Just asking, why are you modeling the switches and keycaps?Perfect, thanks!
To see how it will look when it's done. The switches were a model I found on GrabCAD, though, I didn't want to model those.
I think you should ask that on the solidworks forums or search for tutorials on youtube
Yeah, good point.I think you should ask that on the solidworks forums or search for tutorials on youtube
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