Miter saws, portable table saws, handheld routers, and blade-width cuts

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Cut on detailed 10-inch sliding and fixed miter saws, portable jobsite table saws, and handheld or table-mounted routers, with every cut taking its width from the mounted blade.

Sawdust's tool stages now model the specific saws and routers in your shop, from 10-inch jobsite table saws and sliding miter saws to handheld routers and router tables, and every cut removes the exact kerf width of the blade you have mounted.

The portable table saw stage showing a 10-inch jobsite table saw with fence, miter gauge, and guard.

Portable jobsite table saws

Alongside cabinet saws, the catalog now includes four 10-inch portable table saws: Modeled after (and sharing specs with) the SKIL TS6307-00, Bosch GTS15-10, Delta 36-6013, and DEWALT DWE7491RS. On the saw stage, the rip fence slides along its rails to your cut width, the miter gauge guides crosscuts across the table, the blade raises and tilts to match your depth and bevel, and each saw enforces its own rip capacity and dado width limits.

Crosscutting a board on the portable table saw using the miter gauge.

Six 10-inch sliding and fixed miter saws

The miter saw stage now models both dual-bevel sliding saws (riding on forward rails for wide boards) and fixed-arm saws that pivot down through narrower stock. Six 10-inch saws are in the catalog, modeled after real saws: the Makita LS1019L as the default, Bosch GCM18V-10SD, DEWALT DWS713, Makita LS1019L, Metabo HPT C10FCGS, Milwaukee 2734-20, and SKIL MS6305-00.

The Makita LS1019L sliding miter saw lowered through a cut on the miter saw stage.

Handheld routers and router tables

Routing is now split between the handheld router and the router table. In the handheld router stage, you bring the router to the board to profile edges or cut dadoes and grooves along a marked line, with the Bosch 1617EVSPK and SKIL RT1322-00 in the catalog. For table routing, add the Bosch RA1181 or RYOBI A25RT03 router table. Clicking Change bit filters to the bits in your shop that fit your router's collet and your table's throat opening.

Handheld router stage set up for an edge roundover pass on a board.

Cuts are as wide as your mounted blade

When a cut does not specify a custom kerf, Sawdust now uses the tooth width of the blade mounted on that saw (or the beam width of your laser cutter) so two 24-inch halves do not silently add up to a 48-inch board. Existing saved projects keep their original cut widths unless you change them.

Comparison of boards cut with different saw blades showing the kerf gap matching each blade's thickness.