Fusion 360 Woodworking: Dovetail Joints - Make them the easy way!

Do you this there is a way to cut the tails with a dovetail bit on the CNC? I mean with incremental depth, not on a single cut.

What about the clearances ?

this was great - very encouraging to think I can do this :)

hello @product Design Online please can you make a video on motion study in fusion 360
I am a beginner and your videos have helped me a lot . I am trying to learn motion study with fusion 360 but being a beginner I don't even know if that is possible. By saying motion study I want to show how my design works in real-world. Please reply if this is possible or not.

Thank you for the tutorials they are so useful. You should make a surfboard video.

Well I learnt a lot in that session, and no I can not think of a better way to do it :)

When i started watching this video, I was so confused. You use parameters instead of number. Finally, at the end of the video, i understand what is parameter that you use.

Hey Kevin! I’ve been focusing on your 3D printing videos which I love and thinking of getting a laser cutter. Would going through the masterclass for woodworkers and such be good for something like that? Since it takes svgs just wasn’t sure how it would relate to each other.

I expected to see how to convert this model-box to separate details for CNC...

Very good video and an elegant workflow to modeling dovetails.
I would like to use this as a basis for future works and one approach is to hand dovetail the 4 sides then after glue-up rip on the table saw the four sides releasing the top from the base.
Do have a workflow on how to this? the saw kerf removes 1/8" of material.
thanks in advance
-Craig

Do you have any recommendations on a brand of a CNC machine for a beginner? 1500-2500 range.

Hello Kevin I can not open the file ( Click the blue “Open in Fusion 360” button.) the button does not show up in fusion360 what am I doing wrong

Can you offer a tutorial on how to save the file in .svg vector.

The way that you explained this made everything so simple. Now I just have to go into the shed and make it.

This was very helpful!
Some things I would felt were missing:
- A few sentences to what a parameter is and why it is useful to use parameters. also, where to click to be able to make your own parameters.
- when you used the assemble-joint tool, I had no idea which point you used to align. It took me forever to find it; my board kept flipping, or at one point I almost had it, but it didn't align properly (it was off by 1 cm), and I didn't know why that happened. Also, maybe a few sentences to what the "joint" tool actually does.

Otherwise, this was really helpful!

Thank you for a great tutorial and some great concepts ! how would you suggest to include a parameter for tolerances in these joints particularly when working with steel ?

Excellent video, thank for featuring some woodworking tutorials. A CAM creation video for cutting dovetails would be cool if you're looking for ideas.

I hate this app. Though I love you Kevin

That was outstanding!!

Thanks bro i got it. But i didn't understood how you gave the comands, is there any option to activate?

The best video on Fusion360 I've seen. You started with a goal that I was interested in and took me through all the steps to complete the entire thing. You explained the key concepts that underlie how all the Fusion360 tools work together. As others have asked I'd love see you take this through to CAM to learn the details on how to cut this.

Kevin: I need a way to do this but with some tolerance (gap) added to one of the parts. When CNC'ing if one part is exactly the same as the other they wont' actually fit together. I wish the cut tool had a "+/- offset" option to add this tolerance. Any suggestions on how to accomplish thi sand maintain the parametric nature? Thanks,
Scott

Solid tutorial. Thanks!

I started using F360 a few months ago mostly for woodworking, so I was happy to find this video. It was really informative. It also mostly matched my gut instinct on how to do this, which made me happy. What I might have done instead of the Copy / Paste commands, though, would be to mirror each board across the corresponding midplane, or maybe instead do two rotational patterns about the center of the box, one to copy each board. That way I'd only have to do the joinery Combine / Cut operation once, and any other changes (eg a groove for the bottom) would get duplicated to if I put them in the right places in the timeline.

The trade-off is that I'd probably have to make the whole box a rigid group rather than using joints like you did. I like the way your joints assemble it like you would in real life. I'm not sure which approach I like more. I need to add some drawers soon to an MFT-style outfeed table I'm designing, so maybe I'll do one each way and see which I like best.

Thanks for the video!

When I try to grab the demo file it says that the model is empty : /

Great tutorial! One issue that I'm having is when I create the copied components using "Paste New" and then try to change parameters the copies do not change. What am I doing wrong? - Thank you!

Really appreciate you putting these together as I have gained a decent bit of knowledge using them.
Keep up the great work.

Curious why you "flipped" the front of the box when copying and pasting it? Seems like it would have been fine either way, since it is a through dovetail.

Thanks!

It would be nice if you didn't assume that your viewers already understand all of the features you are using and the parameters involved in each of them.

When using the PinNumber variable in the quantity field, it's RED in color and does not ever fully define or change when I put a new value in parameters box. What am I missing?

This is a terrific video and technique, although I’m unable to select the front board as either a target or tool in the Combine operation. The other boards work but for some reason it won’t let me select the front one.

Thanks for the instruction & lessons that I've learned from your videos! This one was no exception.

I went about it in a slightly different way. If you design with really thin pins (say 1/8" for example), then it's not all that realistic to have half pins that are 1/16". So I added a parameter for the half pin width and removed that much off of either end of the tail board to make sure the half pins were a reasonable size (1/4" or 1/2" for example). Then after push/pulling the center pin out of the tail board, I used the rectangle pattern tool to replicate the center pin cutout feature across the remaining space rather than the full width of the tail board. I hope this makes sense.

Sometimes just because something can be designed and modeled doesn't necessarily mean that the final product will be functional.

i did it. i followed along and now I understand how to do it. I am surprised because I have some mental health issues.

I know this vide is three years old, but when I press 'S' to bring up the shortcut bar, the rectangle commands are not options when I search. All I get is 'rectangular pattern'. What am I missing?

tried changing box height it did not change the pins plat of original... not sure if its only my model having issue...🙂

Just love your Channel! Clear and Concise and I learn something new every time. Still the best!

Very useful tips such as "Auto projects edges on reference", "Feature mirroring" , "Ground" and "As-built Joint"😮😮😮thx

Useful tips about the use of the sketches. Thanks 👍

Using imperial in CAD is beyond cursed. Hooooly

Great video. I know this is older now so I don't know if you review comments, but I am curious what you think about clearances? I plan on using this video to try 3D printing some dovetails joints on a simple box. Will the combine/cut result in pins and tails that mesh properly, or will I need to add some clearances?

I plan on testing this myself so I will find out soon enough, but I would appreciate your input since you might have some guidance.

EDIT: as expected, the 3D printed joints don't fit. I know this video is for woodworking, so that's fine, but if you are doing this for 3D printing, I don't think you can use the join/cut feature to create the pins. I am going to experiment with projecting the tails onto the second board, and then using an offset with parametric clearance to make the pins a tad smaller.

Thanks for the great content.

Hi, just recently I've found this video and the parameters don't seem to work? For the dovetail height parameter it's always a bit off.

Excellent way of doing it

The Perfect video. I do wish you would have shown how to do a parametric bottom for the drawer/box. None the less this is the first one my Fusion CAM has no problem with.