How to add and configure your table saw and miter saw
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Add a personal table saw or miter saw to My Shop and configure its blade, kerf, miter slots, and capabilities.
Adding your own saws to My Shop lets Sawdust use the tools, blades, kerfs, and miter-slot dimensions you actually own when planning cuts and jigs. Start with the catalog entry for your model if one is available. If your model is not in the catalog yet, you can add a personal table saw or miter saw and enter its details.
1. Find your saw in My Shop
Sign in and open My Shop from your project. Choose All on Sawdust, click the Tools section card (or set Category to Tools), and search for your saw's model.
If you find your saw, click the + button on its card to add your own copy to My Shop. Open your saved copy and choose Edit to change its blade, miter slots, or capabilities. Starting from a catalog model preserves that saw's recorded angle limits, capacity, and blade fit rules.
Your shop belongs to your account and carries across projects. Once you add personal tools, those tools replace the default starter kit as your active shop, so add both saws you intend to use.
2. Add a saw that is missing from the catalog
In My Shop -> Tools under All on Sawdust, click Add a tool that isn't listed. Select Miter Saw or Table Saw, then enter a Name you will recognize (such as "Workshop miter saw") and the Manufacturer.
3. Configure the blade, miter slots, and capabilities
Under Mounted blade, choose a catalog blade or Custom blade (enter its numbers). Choosing a catalog blade fills in the diameter, kerf, and tooth count automatically and filters out blades that do not fit the saw's arbor or diameter limits.
For a custom blade, enter Diameter (in), Kerf (in), and Teeth. These fields use inches even if your project displays millimeters. For example, a 254 mm blade has a 10 inch diameter, and a 2.54 mm kerf is 0.1 inch. Kerf is the slot width removed by the blade; Sawdust subtracts it when laying out cuts on a board.
When configuring a Table Saw, you can also record your saw's Miter slots so crosscut sleds and miter-slot jigs size their runners and positions to your table: choose the slot Shape (Square-sided (3/4" x 3/8" standard) or T-slot), enter Width at the table (in.) and Depth (in.), and enter the distance from the blade to the center of the left and right slots in Left slot: blade to its centre (in.) and Right slot: blade to its centre (in.). Leave either side blank if your table has no slot on that side.
Under Capabilities, check the operations your saw supports. A miter saw commonly uses Crosscut and Miter, plus Bevel when its head tilts. A table saw commonly uses Rip and Crosscut (plus Bevel, Dado, Groove, or Rabbet when supported). You can also set a Colorway label under Appearance.
Click Save to add the saw to My Shop. Repeat for your other saw. You can reopen any saved saw in My Shop -> Tools and click Edit whenever you swap blades.
For help reviewing the resulting parts and cuts, see How to inspect part geometry and dimensions in Sawdust and How to watch a part's fabrication with Show me how.