Okay, so now we need to figure out a way to connect some of these pieces here. Let's first of all figure out how to connect this top solar cell holder down to the battery holder. Let's go ahead and hide this clear to the light cover, we can hide that. We talked a little bit about how we would manufacture these two pieces we know they're gonna have to be custom. A good option for these would be 3d printing. So we can plan for now on 3d printing these pieces again, we said we could also use a mill and a lathe to make these out of plastic.

Most likely start with a cylindrical rod to make them but 3d printing should be probably a little bit cheaper. probably easier to get these parts made and they should hold up for this prototype, we need to figure out how to connect these two. What we could do is add some material on this top piece for some screws to come in from the bottom and hold these two together. Let's go ahead and give that a try. We'll add some room as material on this top piece. So let's take this solar cell holder and isolate it first of all.

So now we have just the solar cell holder. Let's bring back our capacity to 100%. So we have that solar cell holder. And let's add some material for screws to be inserted into. So in this case, let's go on to this bottom face sketch. Create sketch.

Let's bring our views To a proper 90 degrees here, I click on bottom, there we go. Let's add some construction lines. So I got a line, just draw a line straight vertical right click construction. So add one there and let's do the same thing in this direction. Right click normal construction. So now I have two guidelines that we can draw off of.

So first of all, let's start with an arc. And let's go with a three point arc. If I hover you can see it it says place the starting point. Let's place our starting point. Say right here, and then I need to place my endpoint can place it there and Let's exit that I placed it wrong. So we're going to sketch arc and three point arc.

Going to choose place a start point, place my end point and then I place a point on the arc. So I'm going to place that right at the center. So there we go. And then I'm just going to take my line command and draw straight out and draw straight down and straight over. I'm not sure what happened with let's delete this. Sketch mine again, I'm not sure what happened with my vertical part but that's okay.

And you can now see if I rotate, you can see what we have. So all I have done is on this bottom lip. On that face, I've just drawn a shape. And if I stop sketch what we're going to do if I go to create extrude, and I click on it, and I pull it in, hit OK. Let's go back. Let's do that again, create extrude. And I click on that.

And it's not going to be a cut, it's going to be a join, let's say okay, here's what we're gonna do. We're just adding some material so that we can insert some screws into this piece from the bottom. And so let's go back into our sketch and finish that up. I'm just going to undo the extrude and let's go. On the solar cell folder, let's go into sketches and back into the sketch. And that's not the right sketch.

So I'll stop sketch. So what actually happened here was I didn't activate. I didn't activate my solar cell holder when I drew this sketch here, the assembly was activated, so I put the sketch underneath the assembly, but again, I can just drag that sketch down and put it into my solar cell folder. That's a way that we can fix that. So I'm going to activate my solar cell holder. And looks like it's going to be this bottom sketch and I edit that sketch.

And now we're finally back here and I click on the bottom to square up my screen. You can see these constraints we have here, the two straight bars mean parallel, and the T means perpendicular. What I want to do is I want to make this shape symmetric about this line here. So just click on these two choose symmetry I need to select a symmetry line. And those should now be symmetric. And then I also want to take this line and this line and I want to make them coincident.

Cancel that. Let's actually delete this and let's just redraw our line. A lot of the time, if you can't get something to work, it's just easier to restart. So I placed my two endpoints and then let's place the last point right where it's supposed to be. So that worked. It's much easier a lot of the time to just, you know, start over.

Let's go ahead and double check that these two are the same distance from this line if I dimension that and repeat sketch dimension, dimension that point 462. So both of these looks like it is symmetric. And now let's take this and mirror it about and mirror all of these sketch lines. So I have them all highlighted, I got a sketch mirror and choose the Mirror line. And there we go. Hit OK, stop sketch.

Again, here's what we here's all we did. On this sketch we just created, we created these two pockets took us a little bit of time because we needed to make sure that things were symmetric. Now if I go to sketch extrude, we're just going to take these two and extrude them up and we can go all the way up to that back face. So for extent here, I can go to Object and just click on that inside face and hit OK. And these should have extruded all the way up to that back face instead of typing in a distance. So there we go. This looks like what we need.