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. 
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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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My goodness that thing is nuts. I wonder if those steel belts are okay at that slight angle.
Don’t forget the back inside corners of the female part are round, but the corresponding corners of the male part are going to be square.
Specifically this:
And this:
It is possible to round the tops of the fingers to match the curve left on the inside of the cavities. It is somewhat complicated but it is doable. Or since it is on an interior surface that doesn’t show, you can also cheat by just chopping off the tops of the fingers so there is no interference.
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Good catch.
In the corner, I would think overcut would be fine. As long as it didn’t make it too weak.
I’ve seen this one and wanted to post about this 
I love the idea to have dovetail with a single face operation though
Yeah I put some more work in this yesterday and caught this one while inspecting the section views
Here’s what I git so far…
The drawback is that you get a small gap on the inside corner:
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In theory, edge A should be square to prevent the gap, but edge B must be rounded since the complementary part is cut using a bit with some radius:
The same is true of the female part.
The difficult part is what to do at the corner where edge A and edge B intersect. It needs to be some compound curve and it is not obvious what the correct shape is.
I found this to be a fascinating mathematical puzzle and I posted my solution a couple years ago. (Spoilers if you want the fun of solving the problem yourself.)
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I didn’t read the whole thread, but it seems like you did quite a lot of work already
I thought about adding a small straight stepdown to cover the joint too, will try this…
Some cool clamps using rubber bands, it seems to hold surprisingly well
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Ok… so… this might be feasible… but it’s not quite a simple feat
You can tll it took quite abit of persuasion to get it to “fit”
EDIT: I think I might have cracked the code second try… damn!
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you do realize that you have an entire forum here of CNC’s and 3DPs all controlled by people that enjoy making random things just to see what would happen???
Just saying.
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wouldnt it have been easier to use a dovetail bit instead of a lollipop? Should almost be able to get hand cut dovetail look out of it.
since we’re on the dovetail topic, check out this video at 11 minutes.
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