I've had these Xbee boards for a while and decided to use them to take the plunge into Fusion 360 to design a case. This was a little tricky because Digi only published top down models with dimensions to work from. It was a lot of back and forth with calipers to make sure I accounted for the leads poking through the bottom of the board and getting the USB hole in the right spot. The antenna mounting clip has indexing keys that needed cutouts. I landed on 2mm for case thickness but the clips for the antenna mount are only 1 mm in, so I had to do a recessed lip to catch the clips.
The last kink to workout is getting the antenna clip to clear the lip for the lid. They're just barely touching so I'm gonna extend the height by about 0.5mm. Think I'll add some vents holes too.
I bought the unit as a factory return, and the idiot first owner removed the screen protector and then damaged the screen by spilling resin on it and scraping it off.
Actually, you can very much see the layer line problem Stephan mentioned in the video you posted. I did order the hotend and replacement nozzle he recommended to give them a whirl. I'm mainly hoping it'll help with printing PETG because I can only get nice prints with it if I slow things way down, kind of defeating the purpose of the X1.
For simple geometric shapes - like sensor boxes - I can do it much faster in TinkerCAD. But knowing how to use Fusion 360 is good too, as it can do much more.
EDIT: Also I can use TinkerCAD on my chromebook, which I can't with Fusion 360 personal use licenses.
I'm not an avid laptop user so I couldn't manage doing design on one without some level of frustration. I just stick to my desktop. So, that affords me the option to just use Fusion. The other side is that I definitely want to do more complex designs, like recreating that Fire HD mount above to fit the 8" model. Since I'm starting from scratch in this area, I figured I'd learn Fusion from the start and maybe branch into the other options later on.
Some chromebooks can activate a linux container. I'm using it to run Firefox, PrusaSlicer, & Cura. (Cura runs the best vs Prusa, but it may be the custom printer profile for the AnkerMake was better.)
To be fair that would only take about 5 min in tinkercad too... It is fairly simple. Chamfers, rounded corners, and basic shape cutouts are easy to do in tinker.
No argument though that fusion 360 is so much more capable overall.
So if you have need to learn it anyway, and have access to a PC/Mac at the time you need/want to do the design, it is the way to go.
