Recently I had an e-mail from a woodworker who is trying to model a tote box similar to the one shown here. The tricky part for him is creating the dovetails. The dovetails for a typical case or drawer box with square corners are generally pretty straightforward because you can use the native Push/Pull to create the pins and sockets. With both sides meeting at an angle like they do in this project, the dovetails require a different approach. I’ll show you in this video how I go about modeling the sides of the box, then laying out and cutting the dovetail joints.

Although the joints could be modeled with native tools, I used an extension called Joint Push/Pull to speed things up. If you don’t already have it installed and plan to get it. Make sure you also install LibFredo6.

–Dave