Ep 1: CAD Dovetail Joint Design in Autodesk Fusion 360 for CNC Woodworking

[@MarkLasbyCNC]

Cobin, You are the grand master of Fusion. I learned more from this video that I have from tons of other Fusion videos. Please make more Fusion tutorial videos.

[@CorbinDunn]

Thanks Mark! I have some good Fusion ideas I want to do tutorials on...I hope to get to them soon!

[@GGGG_3333]

Can't wait for the next two videos to drop. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us 🙏.

[@CorbinDunn]

Awesome! The next two videos will be tomorrow and the next day. I figured it would be better to get them all out there together at roughly the same time. Toolpaths (video 2) are the real trick to getting good dovetail cuts.

[@richardleslie410]

Thanks for this video, it was Money. Learned a new process of the combine command and a method of changing size with the offset and and X key, neat. Look forward to the tool paths video and all future projects. Cheers !

[@CorbinDunn]

That's great to hear! I'm kind of 50/50 on doing Fusion videos, as I'm not sure people like them or not, so it is good to hear that you found it useful.

[@richardleslie410]

Well thanks again. The trend seemed to be towards Vectric for the hobby woodworker. Early on I chose Fusion 360, there doesn't feel like there are as many videos out there for functional woodworking with fusion 360. Maybe it's not the trending video niche with a pot of gold at the end but I found it useful and you definitely have a knack for teaching and film making.

[@huntercottrell3720]

Fantastic series! Just finished watching all three videos. Thank you so much Corbin. Exactly what I was asking for in your previous video. Can’t wait to put this into practice on my onefinity.

[@CorbinDunn]

Great! I think I'll keep on doing Fusion videos; I think people are finding them useful.

[@jaymedavis7567]

@@CorbinDunn you are really great at explaining and pacing! something a lot of people struggle with. I can tell you have lots of experience! Thanks!

[@xyzspec82]

This is gold 👏🏻👏🏻

[@CorbinDunn]

Thanks!!

[@markscheiner3952]

Great video. Thanks for posting. Looking forward to the next two

[@CorbinDunn]

Great! They'll be out soon (next one is tonight @5pm)

[@samrix5793]

Love your content and looking forward to watching the rest of the series

[@CorbinDunn]

Thanks! I'm glad you like it

[@BipinBabu-k4c]

Please do more...!

[@CorbinDunn]

Okay!

[@BipinBabu-k4c]

@@CorbinDunn Please be informed that You are my primary source of reference for any woodworking Projects..! Because I love to design in Fusion and Utilise CNC Potential as much as possible.! (Not creative at all though- Copycat of designs and CAM them up...lol) I would appreciate if you can dedicate some videos for FOOD SAFETY MEASURES ON PROJECTS LIKE CUTTING BOARDS AND SPOONS, BOWLS, SERVING PLATTERS...ETC ...!" Because those are in my products list.!

[@CorbinDunn]

@@BipinBabu-k4c Sure! I think the main thing for food safety is to use a food safe finish; something without drying agents. Most products by "Walrus Oil" are great to use. Epoxy isn't great, as it can chip and be ingested...and while it should be inert, it isn't "food safe".

[@BipinBabu-k4c]

Waiting For More Projects with Features on multiple Sides. It is very easy to learn from your videos...Dont Know Why, the way you explain or approaches that you follow....great..! After this series, Please do some videos on Organic Shapes like the Scorpion Tail or the Beetle Shelf..etc Or a curved handrail of a staircase with flowing 3 dimensional curves . CAD,CAM + Work holding and figuring out fixture methods for those projects seem to be complex..! Please try to do any small component as an example Just to demonstrate your approaches on such weird Multi sided projects in Fusion with CAD and CAM+ Fixture methods. I think managing Organic Shapes in fusion is not easy. But Fusion is the best program for CAD and CAM for guys like me...! It is so amazing ..! it would be great to learn from your approaches.!

[@BipinBabu-k4c]

Oh...I forgot....thanks for the effort you put out to educate us..! You know my ambition is to modernise the traditional woodworking methods at least in my community with my Mach3 powered DIY CNC + Fusion360 with the help of passionate educators like you..! Dont know how it would turn out....Im highly pumped..!

[@CorbinDunn]

Yeah! I am currently making a 3d snake out of wood, with flexible joints; I have some previews of it on Instagram. I'd say it definitely counts as an "organic shape", and it requires two sided machining to get it done right. I definitely could do a video on the CAM for it; I machined a lot of the middle sections multiple times to make a bunch of snakes, so I really nailed down an optimized toolpath (for clean cuts, not necessarily for speed). Going forward, I plan to do more furniture type stuff with complex curves.

[@BipinBabu-k4c]

@@CorbinDunn Oh...! Looking forward to watching them all..! Thanks again..!

[@gonesilent2814]

Why don't many of the kit CNC's have provisions to work with stock facing up like this?

[@CorbinDunn]

I wonder the same thing! Many of the DIY ones, like Onefinity, let you build your own table, so you could build it into one of those. Other big name machines, Laguna, Grizzly, Phantom, etc, don't really have this ability.

[@lpa74]

I love my cnc but it sure seems like it would be alot faster and easier just to use my porter cable dovetail jig

[@CorbinDunn]

I do have the Leigh Dovetail Jig; it is quite nice, and I've built many drawers with it! It is pretty fast, but I still do get chipout where the router bit sometimes pushes out. I also feel like I get better alignment on the CNC, and less messing around with trying to get the perfect depth (for half blind at least). It'd be interesting to test the time for both techniques, including setup and CAM for the CNC, and see which is faster. I'd bet the CNC would eventually win, as you can setup the next board at a different spot while the first is cutting, and then just hit "go" to start the 2nd as soon as it is done, and then replace it with the next, etc...

[@lpa74]

@CorbinDunn well, if you're set up to do it and you already know how to do it then I'm sure there's no reason to use the dovetail jig again, but I'm not set up to do it on my CNC and I'm finding it hard to find a reason to make a setup. Though I probably will at some point