Showing posts from Design Tips category

Discover the importance and benefits of adding chamfers and fillets to your machined parts for improved functionality and aesthetics.

A few tips on how to deal with cable management when you’re prototyping and building enclosures with electrical components inside.

To ensure that you avoid sheet metal design mistakes, we have listed some common errors you should look to avoid.

While increasing metal thickness is one way to increase a part’s strength, it is not by any means your only option.

As we say goodbye to 2022, let’s look at Team Protocase’s top 10 videos of the year.

Outlining the best practices for using our design services.

This blog post outlines some steps and measures you can take to help save budget while ensuring you end up with a design that functions as intended.

This blog post provides a rundown of all of the important steps and key information you should include when submitting a request for quote.

This blog post reviews ventilation design, as well as explains the options that we offer to create ventilation that is both functional and aesthetically pleasing.

Douglas Ronne is our lead software developer and essentially the mastermind of Protocase Designer as it exists today.

Protocase Designer is an important tool for our customers, and so we’re always striving to make the software as useful as it can possibly be.

To ensure we manufacture exactly what you envision, we have e-drawing approval as part of our standard procedures.

We recently revised our How to Design Custom Enclosures for Motherboard-Based Systems resource to make it more clear, up-to-date and more helpful.

Going deeper into the subject of minimum bend radii.

This blog highlights five key design concepts: metal selection, metal bending, self-clinching fasteners, welding, and finishing.

Sharing some knowledge on how to design enclosures that protect against water and debris.