The purpose of this thread is not to make a case, or necessarily design one. The goal it to put up a wiki page with the base measurements needed for anyone to make an enclosure for the most popular keyboards, and potentially current or upcoming DIY projects. There has been interest in having some public CAD files for cases for a long time, but as people create them to produce cases for themselves, friends or to sell to the public, there is less of an incentive to post all of their hard work with the possibility that others may just copy it. So, in the interest of building a body of knowledge similar to the key thickness/weights/comparisons that have been in our wiki for years, it seems like a logical extension to post PCB/plate dimensions, key spacing, etc, for various boards.
Types of measurements needed
* PCB dimensions
* Plate dimensions (if applicable)
* Key spacing
* Screw hole positions (for plate and PCB)
* Height tolerances (Highest/lowest point - like for the controller, and where it is positioned).
Ideas for measurements:
* Filco TKL
* Filco Full Size (below are SoulHunters measurements from a filco case)
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http://soulhunters-crappy-website.com/misc/Filco_Board_v.02.pdf* PLU 87 (<- Found 'em)
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Plu Dimensions:
size of PCB 122 * 345 mm , one or 2 mm more would not be a problem
size of plate 128 * 349 mm, the 128 should be rather precise cut
distance between:
ESC and F1: 38 mm
F9 to Pause/Break : 119 mm
ESC and Pause/Break : 328.5 mm
Pause/Break and Right Arrow: 104 mm
Distance between all the holes on the PCB for the supporting posts on the bottom of the keyboard case
I measuerd all holes from the middle of the hole.
All upper holes have the distance of 22.5mm from the upper edge of the PCB.
The distances of the upper 3 holes from left (CapsLock side) to the right side are:
left edge to 1st hole: 56mm, 1st hole to 2nd hole: 115.5mm, 2nd hole to the 3rd hole: 115.5mm, 3rd hole to the right edge: 58.5mm.
Lower right (CapsLock Side) hole: 13mm to the bottom edge, 58.5mm to the right edge.
Lower left hole: 36mm to the left edge, 37.5mm to the bottom edge.
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This is quite a bit more complicated than it sounds, and may eventually require CAD models of the internals of different boards rather than a set of measurements, but I think it something that a lot of people would like to see.
Do you think it can be done? Do you want it to be done? Discuss!