Box Maker - A good solid box maker featuring:.Another fork of Elliot White's plugin with neat 'living hinges'.As above with fewer features, another virtually identical fork is here.(new) Internal divisions can now either be keyed into the box sides or removable.Includes a Schroff case generator (Thanks to John Slee).

Ability to quickly configure slotted internal divisions, both X and Y.

Ability to cut 6, 5, 4, 3 and 2-faced 'boxes'.

'Hairline' line thickness adjustment for Epilog lasers.

My Tabbed Box Maker - Comprehensive and easy to use box generator with lots of features:.

Here's a list of all box makers I'm aware of, and a comparison of each: So if you know of something I've missed, ping me in the comments below and I'll add it to the list! I believe my plugin is the most advanced laser cut box generator for Inkscape, and I'd be absolutely ecstatic if you used it, but I'm also very keen to hear what else is out there and I'd like to keep this Instructable as a master reference for all things box-generator related. Above are photos of some of the useful things I've created with modifications to simple box designs (I'm planning on writing short Instructables for each soon).įull disclosure: I am the maintainer of a tiny bit of Open Source called Tabbed Box Maker (pretty original, huh?) which is a plugin for Inkscape, forked from the original Tabbed Box Maker by Elliot White. I'm pretty passionate about laser cutters and in this Instructable I'm going to show you some free and (mostly) easy tools to create boxes of all shapes and sizes. There are a bunch of commercial tools that can be used to create laser cut box plans, but I'm not going to cover them here. However, getting the right box for your requirements is not always easy and often entails lots of post-generation modification, plus how do you choose which tool to use? Are better ones available? Tabbed, or 'finger-jointed' boxes are one of the most versatile things you can make with a laser cutter - the possibilities really are endless.

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