A dubious idea I have about cutting curved dovetails so a box would look like an impossible dovetail box, but would in fact have the top open on an arc rather than a diagonal slide like most impossible dovetails.
The axis of rotation is the left corner, where there's a green line.
It took a lot more math than I expected to make the intersections of the dovetail arcs the same width for both radii. If I were better with freecad I could make this a constraint and have the system calculate it.
@smellsofbikes did you end up creating using the revolve tool? Or did you make a cut tool and use booleans? What was your approach that required math? I hope between FreeCAD and Fusion, I’d love to use FreeCAD alone but I find as a newbie Fusion is way more forgiving.
@done I used the cutting revolve on this, and my math was crummy: drawing it out on graph paper and doing some trig to figure out the length of the intersecting angle was and then just assigning a value to that constraint in the sketch. @mcdanlj did a much better job in his version of it, also in the replies.
Freecad is for sure a higher learning curve. I've been using it for years so I'm kinda used to it.

@done If you want to become more comfortable with #FreeCAD, @concretedog has a freely-downloadable introduction.

https://blog.freecad.org/2022/10/05/new-book-freecad-for-makers/

I find that written tutorial material for FreeCAD is somewhat limited. MangoJelly and Joko Engineering are two helpful YouTube channels.

The current development versions of FreeCAD have a lot of usability improvements. ❤️

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