FreeCAD for Woodworkers Playlist

The Kabuto Ari joint is traditional a Japanese wall framing joint used to join joists and wall frames. The joint is part mortice and tenon, and part dovetail, giving it a great deal of strength.

The male part of the joint has a dovetail that runs most of the way along the end of the joist, but stops at a lip which sits upon the wall frame. The female part of the joint has a dovetail socket, and a mortice to support the joist as it it lowered onto the frame. This gives it shear and lateral strength that other joints don't have.

How to use the Chamfer tool in FreeCAD's Part Design Workbench

A Chamfer is a design feature that is used to add decoration to an object, make objects safer for humans, or a combination of both. A chamfer can be thought of as a long triangular solid that will be sliced off the work piece. As a general rule, a chamfer is made at roughly 45 degrees to the edge, with the size determining whether the chamfer is a decorative feature or just being used to remove sharp corners.

Raised panels are decorative panels that are inserted into a frame for use as a cabinet door or the side of a cabinet. They are used instead of solid timber so that wood movement can be managed, and also to reduce the weight of the furniture. Raised panels typically have a decorative pattern on the outside of the front face, and they can be created on a tablesaw, a router table, or by hand.

This video demonstrates two methods of designing raised panels within FreeCAD's Part Design Workbench.

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FreeCAD's TechDraw workbench comes with a number of predefined templates that you can use, but what do you do if you want a custom template? You can modify an existing template, or you can create your own. I'm going to show you how you can create your own by modifying an existing template.

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FreeCAD's TechDraw workbench comes with a number of predefined templates that you can use, but what do you do if you want a custom template? You can modify an existing template, or you can create your own. I'm going to show you how you can create your own from scratch.

FreeCAD sometimes has multiple ways of doing similar things differently to achieve the same result. The Link Tool and the Clone Tool are examples of this. Both tools allow you to reuse existing components in your models but they do it slightly differently.

Let's have a brief look at how to tools work.

This video shows you how design a corner clamping jig used for gluing up 90 degree corners in picture frames.

Learn about my experience using FreeCAD and the Spreadsheet Workbench to design all the components that make up a small cabinet. This is a follow-up to my Designing with Spreadsheets video, and is an exploration of the process of designing a small cabinet.

This tutorial shows how to use the FreeCADSpreadsheet Workbench in furniture design. Utilising a spreadsheet during the design process helps to increase flexibility into the design.

This tutorial shows how to use FreeCAD to model through dovetail joinery used in fine furniture and other applications. This tutorial is intended for furniture makers and wood workers who want an alternative to SketchUp for designing furniture, boxes, etc.