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http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3472477
Motherboard Backplate (Customizable) and ASUS M3A78-CM backplate by cshoredaniel is licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

# Summary

# Customizable Motherboard Backplate

* Included measurements are for an ASUS M3A78-CM motherboard
* The main variable is a vector that allows you to specify how far to move to the next cutout (hole for allowing motherboard ports to be accessed), as well as the size of the cutout
* Can be completely customized for the measurements involved.  As a result, with Customizer this backplate can support any ATX motherboard.

# Print Settings

Printer Brand: Anycubic
Printer: All-metal Mega
Rafts: Doesn't Matter
Supports: No
Resolution: 0.2 mm
Infill: 10%
Filament_brand: Unknown (Came with anyCubic?)
Filament_color: Black
Filament_material: PLA

Notes: 
Not really particular to any printer.  Probably going coarser than 0.2 mm would be a problem for the 'dots' used to create a snap-in backplate.

# How I Designed This

## Measured, then wrote OpenSCAD program

* I measured the ports on the motherboard and the size of the hole for the backplate for the ASUS M37A-CM
* Wrote an OpenSCAD program designed to be completely generic (for any motherboard), including snap-in dots
* Tested the print results and iterated (the measuring part was tricky)


# Custom Section

## A better way to measure

What I should have done for measurement, instead of measuring the physical ports, is take a photo (with a ruler to give the prop scale) and measured the photo.