Sparkfun provides a .step file for a housing for the RTK Postcard. In the file the upper and lower part of the box are together. For 3D printing the box, I need the two parts split into two individual items. The file is to be found under “Documentation” and is called “Example Housing” . Can you please help! Thank you.
I made an STL real quick, here goes - it’ll probably be usable/on the site by sometime tomorrow, as it’s after closing time…
I also uploaded it here but you need to rename the extension to ‘.stl’ instead of ‘.txt’ (forum only allows certain file types)
SparkFun_Postcard_Housing_Bare.txt (2.1 MB)
Hi Russell,
Thank you very much for your help; I appreciate.
I followed the recommendation of Sparkfun and soldered male and female headers on the two boards to sandwich them together. This connects them and leaves a space in between for a battery. For this configuration a different housing is needed. This different housing is listed in the product description and is somewhat larger than the one you sent.
Would you be so kind to separate the two half shells of the larger housing and make them available to me as attachment to an email or as text files on the forum.
Thank you much.
Horst Dierolf
…where at?
Russell, The “Example Housing” is shown on the page toward the bottom under the paragraph “Documentation”.
I hope the picture above will help. Thank you.
That’s the one that I split. I didn’t resize it…but you easily can
Russell, When I download the Example Housing it looks totally different then the one you split.
It is not a matter of resizing. While I appreciate you efforts, may I kindly ask you to split for me the box that can house the two boards connected with headers and with the space in between the boards to accommodate the battery and as shown in the accompanying picture.
I’m not aure what you’re talking about now…all I did was split that same step file into 2 halves, joinable by dovetails inlaid, and exported it as an stl instead
But it’s just an example anyhow…the idea is for you to modify it freely
You split the wrong housing. Please understand, I appreciate your help.
If you go to your company’s website: SparkFun RTK Postcard and page down to the section “Documentation” you will see the item “Example Housing” you will find the correct item.
If you will click on that item you can download the File “SparkFun_Postcard_Housing_Bare.step” then that is the correct housing. That housing is more voluminous to accommodate the battery in addition and splits horizontally. Thank you for your help.
No, I didn’t… “SparkFun_Postcard_Housing_Bare.step” IS the one I modified. Good luck.