I've always planned on doing one more major watercooled case mod then moving on to a less time consuming hobby. I originally wanted to use my BNIB Tagan / A+ Black Pearl but as since I don't have a CNC to cut the aluminum properly I'll be doing a case from scratch. It will use aluminum extrusion plus 3d printed parts. After the case is doing I'll release all the source files if anyone else wants to build one. I'm designing all the plastic parts so that the majority of 3d printers can print them w/o issue.
For the first while I'll just be posting models/renders until I think the design is finished and will work. Should take a lot of the wild guess / trial & error work that went on on other builds I've done.
I knew I wanted to use 180mm radiators. I have two 3x180mms and one 2x180mm but I think that one 3x180mm is enough for pretty much any hardware plus I'm able to keep the system slightly smaller this way. I couldn't find any models for 180mm radiators so I made one from scratch. One thing I should have thought of is how many objects the fins use, it absolutely cripples AutoDesk Fusion 360 when ever I touch the model. It looks good but I've crashed the app at least 50x when making it. :doh:
Next I started on the motherboard tray. I started w/ Santiago's design from GrabCAD and went to town making it useable and printable. I ended up making the tray in to 9 pieces that screw together.
Pic showing the jigsaw method I used to switch the tray together.
The backplate is split in to four pieces.
After a few days I got the basic general design laid out. Still need to figure out lots of other stuff yet though.
Using the following models created by others:
Corsair RM750 PSU by Camo
Silverstone AP181 by Yang Ji
2020 Aluminum Extrusion by Jim Beam
For the first while I'll just be posting models/renders until I think the design is finished and will work. Should take a lot of the wild guess / trial & error work that went on on other builds I've done.
I knew I wanted to use 180mm radiators. I have two 3x180mms and one 2x180mm but I think that one 3x180mm is enough for pretty much any hardware plus I'm able to keep the system slightly smaller this way. I couldn't find any models for 180mm radiators so I made one from scratch. One thing I should have thought of is how many objects the fins use, it absolutely cripples AutoDesk Fusion 360 when ever I touch the model. It looks good but I've crashed the app at least 50x when making it. :doh:
Next I started on the motherboard tray. I started w/ Santiago's design from GrabCAD and went to town making it useable and printable. I ended up making the tray in to 9 pieces that screw together.
Pic showing the jigsaw method I used to switch the tray together.
The backplate is split in to four pieces.
After a few days I got the basic general design laid out. Still need to figure out lots of other stuff yet though.
Using the following models created by others:
Corsair RM750 PSU by Camo
Silverstone AP181 by Yang Ji
2020 Aluminum Extrusion by Jim Beam