A steel shroud and bracket for a stock monitor in a vehicle cab. The monitor is modelled one to one from video, photos and scans, the housing is bent from sheet, and the tilt locks in five positions.
A housing for a stock 10.1-inch monitor (9 to 32 V supply) on machinery under constant vibration: cold-rolled steel, a batch of 100 to 200 a year. The monitor must stay removable and tiltable, and the cables must not chafe.
My job: a press-braked sheet-metal design ready for series production, and a model the client signs off every decision on before drawings.
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The housing had to fit a monitor that exists in no catalogue and no CAD library.
A monitor without drawings. No exact model exists online, so its geometry was taken from the client's video, photos of the manual and 3D scans: side bosses protruding 2.5 mm from the ends, the bezel split line, buttons, cable exits.
A visor that photos don't show. The monitor's plastic visor wraps the bezel, so the housing became a shroud over it with the same profile taken from a scan: a straight run, a chamfer and an R10 step, with an EPDM edge trim.
Vibration. The tilt axis runs on an M8 flange screw with a pair of Nord-Lock washers in PEM press nuts, a ball-lock pin holds the position, and the bracket bolts to the vehicle with M8 bolts, also on Nord-Lock.
Cables on a tilting unit. The cables leave the monitor downwards, so the bottom wall has two U-slots with rubber grommets, and a service loop behind the bracket foot keeps the tilt from pulling the harness.
A parametric Fusion 360 model: a script builds the housing step by step and checks for clashes after every change.
Shroud, cover and bracket are sheet-metal parts with flat patterns from the model: shroud 899.8 × 89.5, cover 266 × 204.2 mm
ISO 4162 M8 tilt axis with a pair of NL8 Nord-Lock washers, Ø6 ball-lock pin at 0, ±15 and ±30°
M5 earthing stud with a 6 mm² lead, a GX16 4-pin connector, the harness to the monitor manual: fused supply, triggers, three cameras and audio on RCA
Bracket underneath: the monitor stands on it as in the client's sketch, the foot bolt heads clear of the radius the visor sweeps
Checked in all five tilt positions: zero clashes, zero bodies floating in the air
Cold-rolled steel, sheet-metal parts with flat patterns; ISO 4162, ISO 7380, ISO 4017 fasteners, DIN 9021 and Nord-Lock washers, PEM press nuts; EPDM trim and gaskets, rubber monitor washers.
The model has 179 bodies: housing, bracket, fasteners with cosmetic threads, the monitor with its visor and the harness. The monitor's internal electronics were not modelled: they are sealed and do not affect the housing.
A Fusion 360 model with tilt and bracket parameters, a STEP and views for sign-off. After the client's answers come DXF flat patterns and drawings from the same model.
The housing fits the real monitor rather than a box with its overall sizes: the visor, bosses and cables are accounted for from the first version.
Every client change goes into the model script, so a new version with a clash check is ready in hours, not days.
Send a sketch or a photo, and within 24 hours I'll tell you how long it takes and what I need from you.
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