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On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:26:07 +1100, you wrote:

If you use Fusion 360 for CAD stuff, you can send a 3D model of your board
to Fusion so you can design an enclosure for it.

In theory if you redesign the board (eg move some LEDs around) those changes
will propagate to Fusion, and your enclosure will update (eg move the
cutouts). I haven't played with that too much to see how well it actually
works.

There's a way to do that in EAGLE that doesn't involve using their
(pay for) services. However, there's significant programming
involved.

You need to take the board file apart, then figure out where the parts
go. Once you do that, you need a 3D model of the part. I use
openSCAD, which allows me to make a color, rotatable 3D image which
can be used to design a case.

If I wanted to, I could also do a 3D print of the board itself, no
colors, of course, but it's possible to do since it *is* a 3D image.

A little parametric work here and there (all resistors devolve to the
same models with slightly different parameters), and you'd be
surprised how many parts you can do.

It's rolling your own, though, and perhaps more work than most would
want to do.

Why do it? I don't want to pay for something I figured I could do
myself, and having a 3D cad model in the same program I use for cases
seemed rather useful.

The cad model includes mounting posts for the boards, and a punchout
which when added to the case, makes the appropriate holes based on the
board layout.

Harvey

Tony

If you can live with the limitations of the free version of EAGLE (all
libraries, 2 layers, 3 * 4 inch boards and one schematic sheet), then
that's free. You may or may not like the interface, but the menus can
(I think), be changed in size for icons.

If in windows, there's always low vision alternatives, but I've never
explored them.

KiCAD is free, has different limitations (it's all free....), and may
be what you might like.

It all depends on the complexity of your boards, the parts you use,
and what you think is simple enough.

Harvey