Dimension for dovetails

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Dovetails or box joints?

Photos showing how things turned out?

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For dovetails, see:

Sharing Carbide Create Dovetail Files

Hi All I am new to this entire process. Have anyone created any dovetail joints using Carbide Create? If you have can you please upload a your carbide create file. Thanks in advance

For box joints, see:

Box (Finger) Joints | Design into 3D

Note that there are other options, and I’ve pretty much settled into full-miter hidden box joints as the best compromise:

Full blind box joints in Carbide Create

This was previously discussed: Doing that specific sort of joint in Carbide Create requires using unsupported tooling: But if the joint is simplified, and one accepts voids: [screengrab] [screengrab] then one can cut parts: [WIN_20221115_21_46_08_Pro] which fit together quite well: [WIN_20221118_18_15_50_Pro] [WIN_20221118_18_17_28_Pro]

Alternate technique to draw them up is shown at:

Storage project box with joinery (blind miter box joints)

Needed to work up a design to store various hobby stuff — I usually use paper boxes, since they are reasonably sturdy and free, but wanted something which was efficient in terms of materials. After a bit of thinking, came up with: [image] which is available at: https://www.blockscad3d.com/community/projects/1878462 After loading the OpenSCAD code and adding a projection() command to allow exporting a DXF and scaling things up we get: [image] which is pretty close to what is wanted, but …

Note that if you have a belt-drive machine, you will need to calibrate for belt stretch for any joinery which is not cut in the same orientation:

Calibrating the machines over long distances

The typical technique for machine calibration: depends on precision measuring tools, and is limited by the reach of the tools in question. EDIT: It also depends on access to the MDI — if using Carbide Motion v6 it will be necessary to enable this in Settings | Options: [image] It should be possible to cut strips from a suitable blank of material, one along each axis — so we set up a square file which matches an available blank of material: [image] and put in suitable geometry and assig…