Help with Fusion 360

Soldato
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Might someone be able to help me with Fusion 360?

I'm trying to design an enclosure for use with an Arduino Nano and software called Deej to create an 8 channel audio mixer.

Basically what I'm trying to make is a box with an angled surface for volume sliders (potentiometers). Which should be pretty simple. I've got the main parts designed (which I did intially in TinkerCAD, which I find far more intuitive for my brain). But I've come to a bit of a halt while trying to add in a couple of parts as I can't work out how to do it.

The main parts:

Two halves of the enclosure Bottom with holes for switches and indicator LEDs:

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Mounting panel for potentiometers)

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The mounting panel I want to mount underneath the face of the top shell of the enclosure, offset by about 4mm, which I'd like to do using heat set inserts so I can remove the panel and swap out the pots if they fail etc; as shown below in my terribly drawn and even more poorly photographed diagram:

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This shows the mounting panel lined up with the holes in the face of the enclosure.

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What I'm struggling to do is work out how I add mounts to the face of the top shell, and get it lined up with the tabs on the mounting panel? I'm guessing I need to sketch the shape on the face of the top shell and then extrude it to form the mounts but I'm running into an issue in that I can't get it to do a sketch on the correct face, and second how do I get it to line up with the mounting panel tabs with the panel still in place as I can't see what I'm doing and I keep clicking and selecting the panel. Can I make the mounting panel transparent so I can see what I'm doing? Or maybe lock it so I can't accidentally select it etc?

The second thing I'm struggling with is adding some more mounts in the corners, on the plane of the bottom of the top shell, that will help locate the two halves of the enclosure together, and also be used, with heat set inserts, to screw the two halves together, as per my diagram and the yellow indicated areas on the below:

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Again I'm guessing it needs me to sketch what I want and extrude it but I can't work out how to sketch/extrude just a quarter circle?

Can anyone help and maybe shed some light on how I should do these two things?
 
Thanks for the help, I think I've sorted the corner pieces now. Not had a chance to try doing the other spacers but I'll give a go when I get a minute.

I'm sure it makes a lot of sense when you get into using it but I have to say I find fusion so unintuitive when compared to the years I've spent working in things like Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator etc. Trying to align items in a sketch... for example, literally a single click in those once items are selected but having had a look about and google it it seems like it's a fiddly thing to do in Fusion. :confused::cry:
 
I did wonder about that, but I've found trying to rotate anything to be really unintuitive and tricky to do (I might be missing something obvious of course...lol).

I really appreciate the offer and may take you up on it up when I get a chance to get back to the project, which is unlikely to be until the end of the week as I've got my son today. :)
 
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