{"id":41085,"date":"2019-06-12T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=41085"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:54:13","slug":"how-to-create-an-arcade-box-using-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2019\/06\/how-to-create-an-arcade-box-using-solidworks.html","title":{"rendered":"How-To: Create an Arcade Box using SOLIDWORKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo \u2013 otherwise known as E3 \u2013 happening this week, it\u2019s a very natural time to look forward to the future of gaming. But it\u2019s also a great time to look back with a sense of nostalgia for the past.<\/p>\n<p>Many SOLIDWORKS users and makers are gamers. This is <em>no secret<\/em>! Many of us grew up on fictional epics like Star Wars and remember spending countless hours of our time (when we weren\u2019t doing engineering homework) gaming on whatever the platform of our times was.<\/p>\n<p>One of our SOLIDWORKS user advocates who comes to mind today is Kirby Downey. We\u2019ve featured Kirby, a cosplay artist and designer, on our blog before, so you may be familiar <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2016\/02\/designing-for-3d-printing-with-cosplay-artist-kirby-downey.html\">with his story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/kirby-preview-image.png\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While E3 runs from June 11 \u2013 June 13 this year, June 11 is a particularly big date for the Nintendo brand. If you\u2019re unfamiliar with E3, it\u2019s a conference that features all the major game manufacturers and much more. Nintendo, however, will be revealing new installments of some of its biggest franchises. These include: Luigi\u2019s Mansion 3,\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon Sword Shield, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Don\u2019t miss your chance to play <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LuigisMansion?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LuigisMansion<\/a> 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PokemonSwordShield?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PokemonSwordShield<\/a> &amp; more for the first time @ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/E32019?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#E32019<\/a>! Tune into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoDirect?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoDirect<\/a> @ 9amPT on 6\/11, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoTreehouseLive?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoTreehouseLive<\/a> throughout the show for more game info &amp; the latest Nintendo news. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0lcDwkjtO6\">https:\/\/t.co\/0lcDwkjtO6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NxB8ve9wc8\">pic.twitter.com\/NxB8ve9wc8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoAmerica\/status\/1136603644353294337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These games will be big releases for the Nintendo Switch console. And while the Switch is a handheld console, it begs the question: <em>what if it didn\u2019t have to be?<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"entry-content-asset\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3D printing an Arcade Stand for a Nintendo Switch in SOLIDWORKS\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tXeXN9Z4T4U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>And that\u2019s sort of what Kirby thought as well. So we worked with Kirby to design a Nintendo Switch arcade box inside of SOLIDWORKS! Now <em>that&#8217;s<\/em> nostalgia-inducing.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out on his YouTube channel. He goes through the full build in detail, including the 3D printing of it on his Prusa I3 MK3S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D modeling, 3D printing, and video games. What could be more fun? During the week of the E3 conference, find out how you can use SOLIDWORKS to design your own Nintendo Switch arcade box on longtime SOLIDWORKS user Kirby Downey&#8217;s YouTube channel!<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2019\/06\/how-to-create-an-arcade-box-using-solidworks.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":41084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402,3,26,826,18,16],"tags":[2947,2945,19,2946],"class_list":["post-41085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-community","category-customer-stories","category-dassault-systmes","category-solidworks","category-tips-tricks","tag-e3","tag-kirby","tag-solidworks-2","tag-youtube"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47398,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41085\/revisions\/47398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}