Adding an Enclosure and Fans

Follow these steps to create an enclosure for your electronics device and to fit fans in the enclosure walls.

If you want to perform an internal flow analysis and consider heat transfer effects through the housing of your device, create an Enclosure QuickPart:
  1. From within the tree or interactively, create a new Enclosure QuickPart using New QuickPart > Enclosure > [Geometry].
  2. In the Edit dialog, set the enclosure properties to suit your requirements. See Enclosure Reference.
  3. Click OK.
To cut out in- and outflow openings, you specify the profiles of the openings using Sheet Construction Geometries:
  1. In the Graphics window, select the relevant enclosure wall.
  2. Right-click and select New Construction Geometry > [Type], where [Type] is one of the following:
    • Sheet Body Circle
    • Sheet Body Rectangle
    For more information, see Creating Construction Geometries.
  3. Right-click the respective enclosure node and select Edit Interactions.
  4. Within the Edit dialog, in the Extrude Cut Through First Segment group box, set Sheet Construction Geometry to the previously created sheet geometries.
    For more information, see Interactions Reference—Extrude Cut Through First Segment.
  5. Click Apply and Close.
If you want to remove a wall from a rectangular enclosure:
  1. In the Graphics window, select the respective enclosure wall.
  2. Right-click and select Create Open Enclosure Face.
    The wall disappears from the enclosure geometry.
  3. To restore previously removed walls of an enclosure:
    1. Select any face of the enclosure.
    2. Right-click and select Restore All Open Enclosure Faces.
To fit an axial fan in an enclosure wall:
  1. In the Graphics window, select the wall of interest.
  2. On the enclosure wall, create an Axial Fan QuickPart. See steps 6–12.
  3. Right-click and select New QuickPart > Axial Fan > [Geometry] , where [Geometry] can be Templated or Custom.
  4. In the Edit dialog, set the fan properties to suit your requirements. See Axial Fan Reference.
    Alternatively, dimension and place the axial fan interactively and in reference to other objects, such as the enclosure.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Right-click the enclosure node and select Edit Interactions.
  7. Within the Edit dialog, in the Subtract group box, set Solid Quick Objects to the Axial Fan QuickPart.
    For more information, see Interactions Reference—Subtract.
  8. Click Apply and Close.
    An opening is cut in the enclosure wall that corresponds to the fan geometry.