{"id":8114,"date":"2024-10-24T19:16:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T02:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=8114"},"modified":"2024-10-25T07:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:02:41","slug":"ep-1-cad-dovetail-design-in-autodesk-fusion-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/ep-1-cad-dovetail-design-in-autodesk-fusion-360\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep 1: CAD Dovetail Design in Autodesk Fusion 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ULlRC8Bf4po?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Video link: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ULlRC8Bf4po\">Ep 1: CAD Dovetail Joint Design in Autodesk Fusion 360 for CNC Woodworking<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I design a lot of my projects in Autodesk Fusion 360. Well, I guess it is just called &#8220;Fusion&#8221; now, which I think was a bad move by Autodesk to rename the product. People can easily search for &#8220;Fusion 360&#8221; and get relevant results. Now, if they search for &#8220;Fusion&#8221; they will get a ton of irrelevant results, because it is kind of a generic term. Users now have to now search for &#8220;Autodesk Fusion&#8221;, but the problem is most people up to now have just referred to the product as &#8220;Fusion 360&#8221;, and not &#8220;Autodesk Fusion 360&#8221;, so a lot of that google history won&#8217;t work for people who are searching. This is relevant to me, as I now want to keep using both keywords to help people find my videos related to the subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video is how I create dovetails. I decided to break it up into three parts, as a full length single video would be over an hour long. The first part is how I do the CAD in Autodesk Fusion 360.  This is really the first step, and a lot of people will do a design in CAD even if they want to cut it out by hand. Designing dovetails isn&#8217;t too hard; the most important part is to just create a line with the appropriate dovetail angle for your bit, which is probably 8 degrees. And to make sure the hole it is cutting is large enough for it to fit in; that means those super tiny pins won&#8217;t work when cutting them out on the CNC; they have to be at least as thick as the bit you are using. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part 2 is all about toolpaths in Fusion. I&#8217;ve done CNC dovetails several times, but I always feel like there is a better way to do the toolpaths (or CAM \/ Computer Aided Manufacturing) than what am I doing. So I spent a good four or five hours trying to figure out the best solution. My ideal solution would be to have the dovetail bit just &#8220;kiss&#8221; the surface on each side of a board, and then remove the waste in the middle. This is purely for chipout. A bit has to enter the board on one side, and exit on the other side, and when it exit&#8217;s on the other side it will tend to leave chipout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chipout isn&#8217;t a new problem to people cutting dovetails with a router, as there have been dedicated jigs available for ages. I have the Leigh jig, and I&#8217;ve used it a lot to create a ton of awesome drawers. One way to minimize chipout is to just lightly run the bit across the surface of the piece of wood before doing a full cut. And ideally run it on the front and backside. You usually can&#8217;t do the backside when using a jig, and chipout is almost inevitable, but you can mitigate it a bit with some scarification boards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I tried hard to figure out how to run the bit do to a light &#8220;kiss&#8221; on the front and back side. Ultimately, I couldn&#8217;t get it to do it. I know there is some dedicated dovetail Gcode generators that will do this &#8212; especially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g-forcecnc.com\/\">JointCam<\/a> &#8212; but I didn&#8217;t want to buy and learn yet more software; I wanted to just use Fusion, since I&#8217;m already paying or a subscription. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The solution to avoid chipout is support. I discuss this in videos 2 and 3, where I support the piece and modify the CAM to accommodate the support pieces. This works great, and probably doesn&#8217;t take that much longer to do the cuts compared to doing a &#8220;kiss&#8221; in front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One final thought: for this video I created three thumbnails. 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