I've made a guide to designing a deck mold in Fusion 360.

Not so much here in terms of DIY deck building as there could be, lets fix that.

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Great video! very informative

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Thank you for posting, I love watching the way different people choose to solid model objects.

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I ll try to look at it as I want to learn but don’t have time :sleepy: thumbnail looks great tho​:grinning::+1:

Excellent tips especially concerning proceduralizing your design, the 3" rule and press leverage. Nicely done!

Great guide man! I have a lot to learn in terms of designing decks and molds.

I am working with my father to purchase a large format 4x8 cnc router with like a foot of travel. It would be great to start machining deck molds! I also have one of those roarockit bags, but would probs buy a press at some point for pressing the decks.

Would be cool if I could easily do one-offs for people, but it would be quite costly to do just one.

Could definitely do custom designs and stuff, just deck shape would be costly because of the mold.

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Combine this with the guy who made the 3d printed tooling and you have everything you need to make a board from veneers.

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This would actually be awesome. I would design it myself and send it to you :slight_smile: Are you still considering it?

Another advantage of this CAD approach is that one could easily design an enclosure mold and then do the enclosure himself.