Taking the MOSFET heatsink off of my dead 680i board, I went and measured the mounting dimensions with my digital calipers (These can be found at Home Depot/Lowes/Etc for around $25.00-$35.00 USD). For this tutorial, I'll show the making of the 680i MOSFET waterblock posted earlier in this thread. In nearly all of my watercooling block designs, they are physically correct in dimensions and scale. I'll be using Rhino as my scene setup software and the process in which materials are applied should be nearly the same for Solidworks, Sketchup and so forth. A list can be found on the Maxwell Render site, ).Įach software group follows the same rules when applying Maxwell Materials (.mxm files). Maxwell Render is supported by numerous software packages (Solidworks, Rhino, Google Sketchup, Cinema 4D, etc.
In this tutorial I'll be using Solidworks 2009 for modeling, Rhino 4.0 for scene setup and Maxwell Render 1.7.1 for the rendering.
