Vertical joinery on the HDM

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

That said, vertical joinery is problematic — for a box you need multiple operations:

• cut to length (and width if need be)
• mount 4 boards on the machine, 2 horizontal, 2 vertically so as to cut 2 joints — repeat for the other two corners

If you’re not committed to exposed joinery, it is possible to cut a blind miter w/ hidden box joints w/ parts flat on the machine:

A different sort of box

Building from a couple of different ideas[1][2], and giving up on the perfection of void-free, and limiting tools to a reasonable number (2), I have arrived at: https://www.blockscad3d.com/community/projects/1270618 which allows one to cut out a box in 2, 3 or 4 operations: bottom (cut to size) top (cut to size) — possibly combined w/ the bottom front/back and one or both sides (repeat once for 2 operations if need be) — this will cut the joinery blind box joints and miter as well as feature…