But has anyone found a solid 2–3 day class that ties Fusion 360 or Rhino to real-shop workflows — Domino where it makes sense, hand-cut details where it matters, and clean CAM for curved parts? I’m pushing a walnut sideboard with bent-laminate doors and Shaper-cut mortises this month and want critique-level instruction, PNW preferred but online with live feedback works.
On your ‘Shaper-cut mortises’ and bent-laminate doors, I’ve had best results in Fusion by undersizing mortises 0.15 mm in the Manufacture Model and leaving 0.3 mm stock on curved rails, then running a 6 mm ballnose Parallel at about 10% stepover and scraping to a knife line. I still use the Domino only for alignment and hand-fit the show joints; if you’re in Rhino, export STEP and do CAM in Fusion, since RhinoCAM can fuzz tiny radii on walnut.
PNW-wise, BARN on Bainbridge and Pratt in Seattle both run short Fusion-to-CNC woodworking intensives that pair ShopBot/Origin cuts with bench critiques; BARN’s calendar is easy to scan: https://bainbridgebarn.org. For your bent-lam doors, do a small “coupon” with the same layup and in Fusion drive a param for Domino clearance, then finish curved panels with a shallow 3D scallop before hand tools — a five‑minute taste test that saves a feast’s worth of walnut. Are you set on Fusion, and if so do you want a shared template? @frankW92’s tolerance note is solid, but I bump it a hair if I’m spraying a thick finish.