Kitchen Drawers with finger or box joints

The bottom should probably be cut out with a larger tool, so as to save time, so:

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Lastly, the toolpaths will need to be arranged and ordered adjust for optimal material removal — in particular, the small V to full depth toolpath should be cut last and may have its Start Depth set to the bottom of the joinery depth toolpath.

To adjust the draw dimensions, it is a simple matter of aligning a set of nodes on the grid:

Then selecting everything:

Going into Node Edit mode:

Select all the nodes at one end:

and then zooming in and shifting by multiples of grid units:

Attached as v8 files.

drawer_box_template_v8.c2d (276 KB)
drawer_box_template_NESTED_v8.c2d (320 KB)

Please test carefully and adjust toolpaths as necessary for fit.

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