Sliding Dovetail Lid for 3D Printed Box | Fusion 360 Tutorial

could add a nub under the thumb recess, so it locks the lid underside with the back wall

Min 3'48", spend like 20 min trying to get that squared figure and just couldn't do it following you step by step.
Had to go to another video to noticed you skipped a step dumbass, thanks for wasting my time

So I printed this box and it worked great. I wanted a longer one and with one dimension change in the main box sketch everything was adjusted correctly!! So awesome. Great job explaining this concept.

From all the information about Fusion 360 on the web I've seen so far, your videos are the best. Your way of teaching is calm, patient and elegant, your explanations are clear and easy to understand. I do the exercises along with the video side by side and I'm always learning something more. Congratulations!

It's just an idea to prevent the lid from coming off, I put two small pins, one on each side of the front of the box to be printed separately and placed after the lid. The top of the pins can be flush with the thickness of the cover and the pins protrude about 1.0mm into the case. They were virtually invisible and prevented the cap from coming off completely more easily.

Thanks!

This was cool.
I have it printing right now. The lid came out nicely. We will see how well the .25 offset works on my max neo.

Just note, when doing woodworking, standard dovetails are generally between 7 and 12 degrees (from vertical).

New feature request: Fusion360 should let you type in parameters which don't yet exist while creating an object, and allow you to add them on the fly. Would save a ton of time!

Kevin has a knack for choosing projects with common uses.

To stop the lid from coming off, I would think you could just put either an additional track on each side of the sliding parts, and then little "wings" at the end that stick out and run along the track. Various ways to do this, and difficult to explain in comments though.

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In a HURRY? Not that easy for beginners!!
Tell how you can print/select separate.

Had to subscribe, this idea of creating and printing random stuff is great cause sometimes there is that one thing you need to find out how to do on your design and this type of tutorial might cover that one thing you need help with. Thank you!

Great stuff. I learnt how to use Fustion 360 without looking at a single tutorial because most of them were awful. But yours are amazing. And I've also learned some new stuff or things I've never thought of using before.

Very informative video ! I learned how to project onto new sketches!

Can you do a cutout for the 3 sides? I was thinking of putting something that the lid will snap onto and keep the lid shut.

You could create small nubs near the front of the lid and offset a spherical shape so it locks into place when the lid is fully in, you'd definitely want a good handle for that method. Alternatively, you could create a pin hole within the box edge where a securing pin could be inserted into the lid to hold it in place, changes to the lid style would yield better results for that method however. Also i find Curved lids are less likely to fall out easily because of the curvature, it depends on the shape, e.g. if the lid was slightly angle downwards towards the back end gravity would help keep it in place as opposed to a "perfectly level" slide track letting friction be the only pull force on the lid. creativity's the limit.

I wonder if you shell the outside it would be easier too determine the required parameters for example you could then use the size of pack of cards too be the size

I loved the content and followed the video a few times, i just cant get my constraints to work when I modify the size of the box the rest doesn't go with it.

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When adding the divot for the lid, in extrude the cut option isn't there. My only options are new object or new component. Any help please?

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Cool tutorial and I'm going to print a few. I changed the design a bit. Rather than a depression for the lid and raised it. In my slicer program, I cut off the raised piece and duplicated. The second one will be glued on the bottom of the lid to act as a stop. Thanks

Your fusion tutorials are the best! The solution I used to keep the lid from sliding off are slots for 3mm diameter 3mm thickness neodymium magnets. I find the way the components snap together to be very satisfying.

Dude! This videois great! So many Tips and Tricks I have been doing the hard way in Fusion!

Thank you very much for the instruction, sure beats fumbling through learning on my own.

Thank you for this excellent instruction. I managed to reproduce it successfully !
Working further on this topic, I've found another way of doing it, which, if you don't mind I'd like to share with you:
Instead of working with offsets on the sketch I tried the following:
Box and lid as seperate components, as you do it.
Create the box as a hollow, complete cube.
Create the lid with triangular profiles on the sides, sketch on the xz plane, extrude along the y axis.
Cut the lid from the top shell of the box using combine with the lid as tool and keeping the tool.
This creates a box with a slot for the lid, but without any gap, so it won't slide , of course.
The use the offset face command on the box's 4 slanted faces where the lid slides in. A value of -0.1 mm works for me (0.20 layers).

It gives the same results , but I found it a little bit easier.

If it do some tapper minimum degree. It will be very much easy to . The cover doesn't escape from that.

is there a way to link components? when i change the dimensions of the box the lid doesnt change

Thank you for this.. Im new to all this & it helped loads.. 5*

i literally love you i had a school project and this solves it all you are the best for real

I want to hang a project box flush on my wall with no screws visible. Gonna try this design and screw the lid into the wall and hope the box slides over it nicely

Once again, another amazing video. Amazing Fusion 360 tutorial series. Learned a lot!

I love having examples like this because I can use it to learn by, and I have a functional product when I'm done. I'd like to add a tab to snap it shut when closed. I'm going to figure out that solution next. Thanks Kevin for a great series.

Thank you for a great tutorial. I used the basic concept to create a channel and diffuser for LED strip lights for a project I am working. I can adjust the parameters to fit different width of LED strips. I this is my first project I have modeled from start to finish!

Lid stopper idea: make 2 or 1 small hook(s) ( like a fishing hook )on the beginning of the lid. once inserted with a litlle force ( pla is a little bit flexibel) you wont be able to remove the lid “ >” > insertion only lifting up with a knife to overcome the highest part of the hook

Use the Divot approach to create a bump on the underside to prevent sliding all the way out. There will be enough flex in the material to assemble it.
Extrude using a taper to create a flat cone type feature that allows it to slide on but not off.

Sorry I could not understand the constraint. You are doing this at high speed then everytrhing is not clear please can you give some details how you get the constraint for the form of the lid

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I think for preventing the lid out of box, you can add two symmetrical shallow cut at each side of the sliding rail then extrude two short pins at bottom of trapezoid, so when lid fully slide out, the pin will stop it off from box.

How can I print the box then the lid separately?

Hi Kevin, awesome tutorial! I'm having problems with the ellipse. It's blue and not constrained and I can't figure it out. There's a glitch in Fusion 360 for the ellipse. I think it might be the top of the trapezoid line won't hold in the sketch, by the time I get to sketching the divot. ,
thanks,
Ron

You make the best tutorials for any software I've ever seen! Please keep making these.

I reduced the tolerance from .2 to .15 and the lid was still loose. So, then I printed off just the lid with a .05 tolerance and with a very light sanding I got a very satisfying friction fit. Hope this helps.

Man, this is quality content! The only downside is that I learn how wrongly I've been doing things in Fusion

Thanks for fantastic videos. Realy helps. Any idea how to slide lid in curve? I try to make a box for coffee filters. Happy new year.