Yea, we have a thread about that around here somewhere.
For the price of a LR3 you can have vacuum work holding.
BTW love this YT channel
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Ok now i had Nooooo idea that a vacuum table sucks THROUGH mdf!!! I always thought it was the channel that held the wood down!! I feel so simple now!!
Yea, you need a good vac for the through the mdf function.
Ha yeah I immediately watched that video too after the one I posted to see if I could make one.
Maybe Ryan will make us a mostly printed vacuum hold down
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Did you never have a look at my vacuum table build? Shame!!! 
This was the first try with the Primo:
The new one works with a sidechannel blower and is pretty great as long as the MDF is flat and does not have too many groves. Those kill all the suction quickly. 
Also, it does only work for sheets, small parts are not held as well as in his video. I don‘t know how he can achieve this insane suction for small pieces.
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Sounds like vacuum table envy 
A bit, yeah. Though mine is sucking air through 17.5mm MDF. 
And cost 250 Euro instead of like 800. 
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We have a couple CNCs at work that have vacuum tables and we use these vacuum cards to prevent cutting into the table. I wonder if there is a hobby equivalent of this that you could use?
Wow, those are expensive. 
Automated 3d printed part extraction, mostly though software modification
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I like that one, I was not expecting built in tooling.
Yeah, they are very proud of everything they sell. Everything seems to be on the high end. But what do you expect from a German company? 
But I was wondering if you could use something like this instead.
Or I could just plane my spoilboard 36 times and then buy a new one. Suction is also going to be better. the thinner it is. 
Touché! But big sheets of MDF are heavy. 
The Kongsburg machines I used to be around had either a felt sheet, or a vinyl sheet with holes in it. Their table tops were steel though.
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Neat how (for internet connected devices) the library can minimize overhead to 50kb by having webui load resources from GitHub instead of burdening/consuming Esp32 mem.
I have to try this one…
It might be doable with just Fusion 360 CAM too
Made a quick design in F360…
And the associated CAM
Male part, nothing too special here…
Female part - 3D adaptative cleaning with a straight bit
Female part - 3D ramp with a lollipop mill
The last operation is not perfectly adjusted yet, I need to work on this a little bit…
But you can see in simulation the ball correctly goes inside the dovetail
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Or you could do a cutout in your table - and I thought I was a bit obsessive…
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