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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

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    7 months ago

    OnShape is intuitive and easy to use. However it does have major downsides (for the free version): all your designs are publicly available and you cannot make money off of your designs without a license or whatever.

    Also, due to being web-based you can log on and make stuff from anywhere, which is cool, and they even have an app. Obviously drawing things on a phone is not ideal but it does work—ive done it.

    I wish it was FOSS but i always struggled with other applications and OnShape just clicked for me. It was originally recommended to me by a friend and now i recommend it to others.

    (Haters please feel free to recommend alternatives—im not married to OnShape).

    • Betch@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      Oh, yeah no that will be a deal breaker for me hahah. I’d rather stick with FreeCAD in that case as I’m not a fan of web-based for things like that. I want my work to be local and I want to own my designs until I decide to share them.

    • felbane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I dipped my toe into Solvespace for a couple of projects and it’s not bad. As with anything it takes some getting used to, and there are things that it does better than freecad (and vice versa).