dovetail tips

[eloid]

hello I like to get get some feed back from users that have made Dovetail Joinery on there cnc...

I Like to understand there techneques and how easy its to impement on a cnc?. I understand you need to have the abillity to cut long vertical
pcs...of lumber... etc ... making the gantry over hang edge, or make a hole in you table etc...Im more interested in the alignment and settup issues...and design the dovetail...

post pictures if possiable with comment...

[zeeway]

Member Steve Palm (spalm) has done this. Check out his posts.

[joecnc2006]

There's been a few done on the "Joe's CNC 4x4 Hybrid" here is one example.

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccS2W2O9CJY"]YouTube- Cutting Dovetails on a Joes Hybrid 4x4 1/2

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n_s2UoXM7Y"]YouTube- Cutting Dovetails on a Joes Hybrid 4x4 2/2

[eloid]

how was the gcode developed? was it hand writen, trying to understand how
to make this with my cnc...

There's been a few done on the "Joe's CNC 4x4 Hybrid" here is one example.

[joecnc2006]

how was the gcode developed? was it hand writen, trying to understand how
to make this with my cnc...

They are Mach3 Wizards that we use on my forum.

[eloid]

where can i get more info on them,

They are Mach3 Wizards that we use on my forum.

[joecnc2006]

where can i get more info on them,

They were written buy my members, I am not sure if they will be released.

[madtownrob]

Joe - those look familiar!

Eliod - I wrote the wizards that are shown in the videos

Here is another video of the stand alone interface that I wrote:


I have since that video made it into a wizard for members of the Joe's CNC site. The first videos that Joe posted, the tool paths were completed in Vcarve. The new wizards operate in mach3 and calculate any number of evenly spaced DT's.

To complete these in vcarve or Aspire - see the following:

http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5811

and half way down you can see my manually generated toolpaths in Vcarve

http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtop...=5144&start=15

I have talked about releasing the wizard to the CNCZone Community but have not had a chance to really dig in and make it the gcode clean enough for public use.

[penot]

how was the gcode developed? was it hand writen, trying to understand how
to make this with my cnc...

Joe's setup is nice, above. I have not seen or used the mach3 magics, but instead created a separate dove tail program that outputs gcode directly. No fancy graphics, and you have to recompile after adjusting your settings, but that is not a problem at all for me. I would be happy to share the ugly code for your information if you may find it useful.
The program makes it really easy to create fully through dove tails, half blind dove tails, evenly spaced or custom spaced fingers etc.

(about the recompiling part, I could of course easily put all the inputs in an editable text file instead if needed.)
/penot

[BOBINETTE]

Hi, this wizard seems to be very interesting, is it possible to have a copy of it, I would like to give it a try.
Thank you

[jsantos]

Joe's setup is nice, above. I have not seen or used the mach3 magics, but instead created a separate dove tail program that outputs gcode directly. No fancy graphics, and you have to recompile after adjusting your settings, but that is not a problem at all for me. I would be happy to share the ugly code for your information if you may find it useful.
The program makes it really easy to create fully through dove tails, half blind dove tails, evenly spaced or custom spaced fingers etc.

(about the recompiling part, I could of course easily put all the inputs in an editable text file instead if needed.)
/penot

Hi Penot,

I've been looking for a program/wizard to generate dovetails and I'm be very interested in getting your code for generating dovetails. I'd even be willing to work on a UI and sharing it with everyone. Thanks!