Here’s a quick project that’s been really useful. Just a little tray for keeping track of my most used tools that I can take with me to wherever in the shop I’m working.
I used a very useful feature script in onshape to make it: cnc joint feature script. It makes designing any sort of box/cabinet etc super easy. Just create overlapping extrusions for your stock.
Select tenon and mortise pieces, type of joint, specify tolerances and dog bones for your bit.
and you’ve got a cnc ready design.
That’s really nice!
Thanks for sharing! That corner joint tool seems real nice! And I got to learn how to add a custom feature in onshape lol.
Oh that is pretty dang slick!
Nice work! What tolerance/allowance are you adding?
I used 0.001" as the tolerance and measured my plywood thickness with a caliper. It lead to a tight fit that didn’t need glue. I was using prefinished plywood so I was fine with that. I did drip some thin CA glue into the joints after though, not sure if that mattered. I’d probably increase the tolerance a fair amount if I was using PVA glue since, in my experience, that swells the wood pretty quickly and can easily make a joint too tight to assemble.
Likey likey!
0.0254mm tolerance 🫨! Are you assembling the parts with a 8lb hammer 
, and/or is your LR that well calibrated?
Great design and project idea. Thank you for sharing!
Love the “first retrieval tool” design philosophy. Learnt about the approach (via Adam Savage) recently. Didn’t fully appreciate the value of this approach until I worked on a recent project where all the tools and materials were within arm reach for the project duration. It was bliss. I can’t remember the last time I experienced that level of Maker project flow/productivity.
haha dumb luck probably. Actually until about a week ago I was using my ER11 collet wrong. I didn’t know it snapped into the nut. So for a while I was getting really bad runout and I bought an “Extreme Precision” runout < 0.0001" collet from precisebits.com to try to fix the problem. So that collet installed incorrectly was getting decent results. But now I have it installed correctly.
