A friend asked me to help her build some storage cabinets for underneath her countertop. I decided to try building them in Fusion 360. It was fun to learn how to do part layouts in Fusion, but I wasn’t brave enough yet to try and use it for CAM, so exported drawings to EstlCAM.
Here’s a time-lapse of cutting one sheet of parts on the LR4. I was really excited about this: it’s the first time I’ve cut a full sheet of plywood without having to reset halfway through due to some machine issue! And I even did a bit change in the middle!
Nice, this is cool to see, as this is my goal. I am currently upgrading my LR3 to a 4 full sheet to do this kind of thing. I have two cabinet project in the pipe for once the machine is online again and working.
How are you dealing with material hold downs on your setup?
For this, I clamped the edges with small woodworking clamps while it drilled the holes for shelves. Then I screwed through some of the holes into the spoil board during the contour cuts. Workholding is still a little tricky with the full sheets.
Got all the parts processed today. The dadoes are a bit too shallow so I’m going to take them into the wood shop tomorrow and run them through a dado stack.
What are the gaps between them for? And that right most cabinet looks off with that door opening over that right most gap. Are these spaces for the countertop bracing?
Yep, the holes in the back are for countertop bracing. And the boxes don’t come together totally clean yet – that’s why I’m headed to the wood shop shortly to fixup the dadoes!
Installed the boxes into place this weekend. I made the doors a bit wrong so need to tune them before installing those. The first set I made were 3/16" too tall because I didn’t measure the height at the back of the bar, just the front. Rookie mistake, but cutting new boxes wasn’t too hard. It was really awesome to see this set slide right in!
