Make a finger-jointed box#

1. Measure your board's thickness with calipers.

2. Open the shape picker and click Box.

3. Set:

   Field	Enter
   Sizes	Outside or Inside — which the sizes below are
   Width · Depth · Height	The box
   Lid	Tick for a sixth panel
   Thickness	What you measured, not the nominal size
   Finger	Roughly how wide a finger should be
   Clearance	Gap per side, e.g. 0.1 mm
   Tool Ø	The bit you will cut with
   Corners	Dogbone or T-bone, so square fingers fit the round-cornered notches

4. Click the stock to place it. It lands at its designed size; drag-sizing is off.

5. Select all the panels and Profile them outside, right through, with the bit you entered as Tool Ø.

The readout under the fields gives the other set of sizes and how many fingers each edge gets.

Related: Box settings · Joinery in the user guide