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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

  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    FYI, I was looking at that exact enclosure for a project I was working on and quickly came to realize that without a bunch of design calculations and redesign for a specific driver it is probably going to be worse sounding than just mounting it into a basic box (with a port if you are feeling fancy).

    • Betch@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Oh yeah I don’t doubt that for a second. This project is basically just me trying to learn how to use CAD software and I figured this would be a good exercise.

      I’m curious to see how bad it’ll sound but the enclosure the speaker originally came in was so bad I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s not any worse, just a different kind of bad.

        • Betch@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yeah I did remodel it completely from scratch. Although I know I didn’t do it properly it still taught me a bunch and it will make noise. That part should be done printing in about 2 hours, I’m excited to hear how bad it sounds and to find out how many mistakes I’ve made in my design hahah.

    • Betch@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      In case you’re curious to hear how mine is shaping out to be, here’s a quick demo:

      Ratchet speaker enclosure test

      I’m actually SO surprised with the results, it completely blows away what it used to be in the original enclosure.