Sharing Carbide Create Dovetail Files

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

It can directly do dovetails — you just need to make a jig and create the toolpaths manually and create the cuts without any sort of 3D visualization in Carbide Create — you might be able to find a 3rd party tool for this: [spoiler]Shapeoko CNC Router, Rigid, Accurate, Reliable, and Affordable Shapeoko CNC Router, Rigid, Accurate, Reliable, and Affordable

There is a file on the link which you didn’t click:

CNC Box (Finger) Joint Box

Working up a tutorial on this for the wiki: but is now at: First step is to create the box itself: This is done in OpenSCAD using the parameters: length = 6; width = 3; height = 4; thickness = 0.375; bottomlidthickness=0.125; pins=13; partspacing=2; Next resolve the pin/joint size and spacing: [cnc_box_fingerjoint] Next step is to work out how to get from the above parameters to a file which may be easily cut using Carbide Create — probably using METAPOST.