Drawing Desk

My project was an Adjustable angled drawing desk. I chose this project because I wanted something simple and functional. And although I was wrong about the easy part, I had a lot of fun with it. This project was done entirely on the CNC Router

CNC Router

1/4" endmill

2 5'x8' sheets of 3/4" plywood

Look online for inspiration. What do you want your legs to look like? What kind of mechanism do you want to use to adjust your desk's angle?

cut out a prototype to see whether your joints fit together smoothly. I didn't do this cause I'm dumb but you should.

Dimension and build out your desk: This may take some troubleshooting to get the pieces to go together, such as adding tolerances and accounting for rounded angles.

One thing I very highly recommend is creating dog bone joints. This will help pieces fit together properly by avoiding round angles. you can do this by making a line the same size as the radius at a 45* to the edge of the female part of the joint. Then make a circle the size of your tool and extrude

set spindle to 18000 rpm

set cutting feed rate to 144in/min

select contours in geometry

enable tabs

set your heights

select multiple depths

put maximum roughing stepdown as your tool diameter

ignore linking

Put USB into router

Nail down plywood

set origin

grab tool

click file button

select your file

warm up spindle with green button

click ok

turn on vacuum

be ready to pause

dismount part

use a soft mallet to wedge your pieces into place for added security you can use wood glue or nail pieces together

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