{"id":8296,"date":"2025-02-11T07:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2025-02-11T07:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T15:23:27","slug":"part-2-the-best-miter-station-cad-and-shop-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/part-2-the-best-miter-station-cad-and-shop-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2: The Best Miter Station &#8211; CAD and Shop Work"},"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\/gMNFxP8RGeI?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\/gMNFxP8RGeI\">Part 2 of the Best Miter Station Build<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In my last blog post I discussed a bit about my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-best-miter-station-and-shop-cabinets\/\">miter station design ideas<\/a>. I finished up a video where I discuss some of the overall CAD design concepts and how I did a few things. The most novel thing I did in the design was to use &#8220;Configurations&#8221; for the drawer to have various different sizes. This is very efficient from a modelling standpoint, as it is just one instance replicated multiple times; that means there is less data for the application to have to keep track of, which can make modeling and rendering a bit faster. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also allowed me to design the drawer slide pilot holes into the drawer component  by creating a &#8220;plug&#8221; the size and depth of the pilot hole. This was incredibly powerful, as it allowed me to reposition and move the drawers around until I found the optimal sizes and arrangement. Then I could just do a &#8220;Combine&#8221; with the alignment hole &#8220;plug&#8221; to virtually cut them out from the plywood sides at the precise right location. Then the CNC could drill them out, and everything would fit perfectly! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In practice this concept worked great. Initially I thought I&#8217;d have to do a lot of two-sided drilling operations on each plywood center piece, as the piece required holes on both sides. But, I realized, by accident, that I could just drill all the way through the piece to get to the other side, and that would work fine for a pilot hole. This meant I could do a one-sided operation, and save the flipping, re-alignment, and running the next operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I did cut everything out on the CNC, I also realize a lot of these cuts are easy to do on the tablesaw, or with a track saw. But I like the idea of not having to measure anything, and all the mortise and tenon joints just fit together like legos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like I mentioned in the last pos, all the CAD files are available as a free download: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinsworkshop.com\/shop\/digital-files-miter-station-cabinet-design-cad-files\/\">Digital Files: Miter Station CAD and CAM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last blog post I discussed a bit about my miter station design ideas. I finished up a video where I discuss some of the overall CAD design concepts and how I did a&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/part-2-the-best-miter-station-cad-and-shop-work\/\">[read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[210,73],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-woodworking","tag-cnc","tag-woodworking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Thumbnail-Miter-station-ep-2-v2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8zn47-29O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.corbinstreehouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}