Cutout Placement to Align with Standoffs

[dronne]

One of the most common questions we get is how to account for the material thickness when trying to align say a DB-9 connector to a circuit board sitting on standoffs. Fortunately, standoffs aren't actually attached to the inside surface - they are embedded in the face. This means that if the measurement of a standoff is 1/4", then that is 1/4" from the outside of the box. When you are editing a front face cutout, if you edit the properties (right click) the y coordinate is relative to the outside of the bottom of the box. So the answer is you don't have to worry about it!

[Panometric]

Is this still strue with the extruded sides? It looks like there is an offset in both Z and Y of say the bottom origin compared to the front origin.

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[Colin]

Hey Panometric,

it would not hold true in this case. The standoff is inserted into the bottom plate, which sits a distance above the origin of the front face.

Colin