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Full Technical Drawings - 1.8" Color TFT Shield w/microSD an

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Hi there,

I am currently working on a project where I need to integrate the Adafruit 1.8" Color TFT Shield w/microSD and Joystick into a housing. However, the technical drawings provided are not complete and do not give measurements that are related to the: 3 fixations point, the screen AND the joystick. There is also no detailed information regarding the minimal hole required for the joystick.

I have obviously measured everything by hand, however due to the size of the screen and the fact that all related measurement must be near perfect it is to risky going into full 3D printing mode without atleast trying to obtain some official technical drawings. It really is a 5 minute job for the board maker to give this information that is actually very valuable.

Hope someone can help!

Thanks

Gareth Montgomery

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Re: Full Technical Drawings - 1.8" Color TFT Shield w/microS

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However, the technical drawings provided are not complete
They are 'complete' for the intended purpose which is to manufacture the PCBs. The board files we publish are the same files we use for manufacturing.
https://learn.adafruit.com/1-8-tft-display/downloads

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Re: Full Technical Drawings - 1.8" Color TFT Shield w/microS

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Hi Bill,

Thanks for your response. Unfortunately we are not producing enough units to justify creating out own PCBs.

In regards to the link you left, this is the same technical information I already have. Sadly the drawings are not complete.

Missing information:
-Distance of all 3 holes to the edges of the PCB
-Size of the holes
- Distances between all the holes to the joystick
- Distance between all the holes to the screen
- Distances of the screen to the edge of the PCB
- Size and max rotational diameter of the joystick
- Distance of reset button to edge of PCB
- etc etc

Please can you have the technical drawings updated.

Kind regards,
Gareth Montgomery

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Re: Full Technical Drawings - 1.8" Color TFT Shield w/microS

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The EagleCAD PCB files linked on that page are the exact same CAD files that are used to actually machine the boards, They contain all of the board dimensions and are as complete as it gets.

If you download them from github, https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-1.8-TFT-Shield
you can open them in EagleCAD and get all the dimensional data. https://www.autodesk.com/products/eagle/free-download

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