Tablesaw throat plate

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Thanks for all the tips and advice! Some comments:

  1. I decided to cut the outer boundary first since I use the same ¼" bit to cut the riving knife slot and I wanted to use the smaller ⅛" bit to cleanup the corners of the slot and wanted to reduce bit swapping. As you pointed out, the bottom surface area is hardly changed at all by doing the outer boundary, so there’s no practical difference in ability to hold the thin stock to the spoilboard.

  2. Yeah, I’m not totally happy with my machining origin, as it requires that the raw stock be pre-milled to an accurate thickness (for the front countersink and the rear protrusion). I’ll probably change that to be the same XY, but the top of the plate for Z. That also makes using the BitSetter easier.

BTW, it’s amazingly great that it works even with the stock at a 45 degree angle!

However, with zero at the top of the workpiece, how can I ensure that I won’t mill into the spoilboard, other than again milling the thickness accurately? The only option I can think of is to keep machining origin where it is and add a top surfacing operation. That way as long as the raw stock is thick enough it’ll be milled to the proper thickness and not cut into the spoilboard. Thoughts?

  1. I fixed the Riving Knife Slot setup in a later version. I haven’t played with any of those other parameters yet. With MDF it’s not a problem, but I’m getting some plastic soon. Any advice on what settings I should make would be appreciated.

  2. The threading thing is just a checkbox in the Hole model diagram. I left it because it made the model look more accurate, but I can easily uncheck it if you say it changes how the milling happens. I was surprised I didn’t get a warning about the threads not being milled in the Manufacture tab.

  3. Looking over the Bore and other Manufacture ops you created. This is where I’m weakest with Fusion. Given what they’re doing with AI these days, you’d think Autodesk would have an AI Manufacture in which you’d input what bits you have available (it already knows what kind of machine you have) and then it would choose the right operations and order of operations, for some definition of “right.”

Thanks again - I’ve still lots to learn here.

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