Hello Dear Laser Friends,
My name is Morris and I need your help.
I use the Boxes.py website to create boxes:
I would like to create a gift box that looks like the one in the picture.
But I can’t do it, I’ve tried all the options but haven’t gotten the desired result.
The only thing I’ve achieved is that the house looks like the one in the picture
Can anyone tell me if this is even possible and what settings I need to enter to create the box I want?
Best Regard Morris
What house?
You need to give us more information. Saying it doesn’t work, really tells us nothing. Does it not fit together or what? We need to target what isn’t working, not that the whole project doesn’t work.
This is done with 3mm basswood and created by boxes.py seems to work OK… Holds a case of rolling papers.
It’s not clear the rounded corners (on the right of the red layout) will be compatible with finger joint sides meeting at a right angle underneath them.
The small pegs on the ends of the hinges (in the black layout) seem required to glue them to the end pieces, so eliminating them (as in the red layout) probably won’t work.
There are so many options, some tucked away in normally collapsed sections. In particular, expand the Settings for Finger Joint and Setting for Chest Hinges section reveal more options than you can imagine.
My experience has been that boxes.py produces good results with the default settings, but changing those settings by large amounts causes weird results. As a rule, I’m willing to accept the overall shape, then add holes and minor tweaks by hand.
I also select:
Inner corners = Corner to make square cornersFormat = lbrn2 for direct useBurn = 0.04 produces a good fitThere is no way to make round corners with the default values. Because the height of your box is also very low there is no room for living hinges. I would leave the inner parts longer and adjust (saw and sand) them manually after the box is assembled.
Thank you very much for the answers.
and sorry if I didn’t express myself correctly.
the only problem is that I have to create several different boxes like in the picture with red color, but with boxes.py I only get a box like in the black picture.
when I create a box, everything is fine, no question.
but I need a setting for boxers.py so that I get a layout like in the red picture, or is that not possible with boxes.py?
The corners can also be square, they don’t have to be round. It is important that the finger joints are not on the outer edge, but with a small distance from the outer edge as in the red picture.
For my S30 Pro with air assist, I use 2.8mm Baltic ply and no Burn correction. That gives a snug fit. I only resize the box as needed.
I need several templates in different sizes for Lightburn that look like the black box.
I found the red box template on the internet,
I created the black one in boxes.py.
I would like a way to have a bottom plate with the finger joints that are a few millimeters away from the edge.
As in the red picture with bottom text with yes.
The length and number of the finger joints doesn’t matter, I need distance from the edge.
My friend (who fell in love with the red box) needs different boxes in different sizes, making them by hand is very laborious.
Maybe there is a way to have the box created automatically
Thanks to everyone who tries to help me
Best regard
Morris
Strangely enough, I couldn’t get it to work in boxes.py either, but if it’s just the base that needs to be modified, it’s very quick to do manually, watch the video.
I know that Florian Festi, who is responsible for boxes.py, is a frequent visitor here in the forum, it could be that he stumbles upon the post and helps out with getting it automated in the program itself, or an explanation for what we’re doing wrong.
You can Offset Shapes outer shapes outward the amount you want.
WOW, thank you very much,
I wouldn’t have thought of it on my own.
If someone knows how to do it, it’s really easy.
I’m happy with this solution.
Have a nice weekend
