Easy CNC Drawer Boxes Vectric Box & Dovetail Joint Gadget 

We have a video about toolpath strategies for plywood and plastics from a recent live stream that might help with this in the meantime! We're happy to make more projects with other materials in the. near future. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x9r9I9gA0Ko.html

@@AvidCNC that's a very avid response. Thanks 👍

I was doing 0.118 lexan and the boxmaker did not do dog bones and the tolerance must be set to something other than zero I could not get it together. Also what I messed up I cut outside the vector not "ON" the vector and one pass It should have been 3 passes. Well how do you choose which vector to select? In box boxmaker it shows inside and outside vectors. The dual path double vectors was my fault. I was in the 2D view and hit preview all vectors and preview produces the cut out vector on the 2D Sheet!!! don't do that or you might have to start over with a clean new job. I didn't carve the lid because it was outside the material. So there was plenty of wasted space to create my own lid in the unused space. It seems boxmaker doesn't like material under 1/8 inches thick, because the dogbone area wont match the material thickness. The auto generated dogbones were almost 1/4 in deep. Also speeds and feeds in bit selector 1/8 in single flute I chose 35 IPS 10,000 RPM I'm documenting this for my own tips doc.

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Good question. If you pause at 5:47, when we zoom in to look at the tool path, you can see two vectors. One is the edge of the panel, and one is offset the radius of the tool from the panel. This way when the bit follows the on the line profile toolpath it can create a dogbone corner relief. This is just the way the gadget was programed to import and create the tool path. (You can also achieve this by manually adding dog-bone fillets tool in the design panel if you'd rather use an outside of the line profile tool path on the line that is the edge of each panel.)

I use .01 for quarter inch plywood. Allows easy assembly this way. With out it they are really tight.

Yes, at 4:50 in the gadget pop up window it provides a list of the sides. You can uncheck any side you don't want it to generate!

@@AvidCNC Thank you But I want NO tabs on top or BOTTOM?

@@johnsautier2703 Do you mean like a box frame, no top/bottom and the four frame pieces only have joints on the corners? If you uncheck "Lid / Bottom" it should not create box joint tabs on the top and bottom of side pieces, it will create box joints only on the ends of side pieces where the pieces fit together to form the corners of the box. If I've misunderstood your question please feel free to contact the Support Team at Support@AvidCNC.com and we'll see how we can help!

@@AvidCNC That's exility what i want. Like a frame. But it does not work. I can uncheck lid and bottom and it still gives me tabs on the bottom of the sides and ends.Thank You JOHN SAUTIER

@@johnsautier2703 You can always cut them off quickly on the table saw.

Sounds good! We'll make a walkthrough on this.

Hi, upon request we have made a walkthrough on how to install Vectric Gadgets. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Etu1Qfo93JE.html

So awesome! I always struggle with the instructions I see that explain how to change zip file names, etc. Forgot that I added this comment, so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw your video tonight while I was catching up. I might even try the gear gadget! Thanks for taking the time to respond and make the video!

There are several limitations to this gadget as it's a community developed plug in for a program. One way to orient the layout is to change the size of the material to restrict the nesting of the parts. For the regular box joints toolpath it generates two lines. One that is the exterior of the box and one that is the line for the tool to generate an on the line toolpath. If you'd like any follow up conversation on this please feel free to reach out to our support team and we will do our best to help!

I have made over 60 boxes with this gadget. I too cut up several sheets of plywood into scrap pieces before I learned how to make the gadget make perfect boxes every time. Here is a short video on how I made a ecofan box using the box gadget. Works great! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FgqXBNIWqaw.html