I’m sure that this may have been asked before, but has anyone come up with a method of upsizing Tabs and Slots to fit larger thicknesses of material without making the pieces larger. Most downloaded projects are for 3mm baltic and I would like to transpose them to thicker ply. Any help is appreciated.
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The doc @thelmuth references will get you started, but keep the troubleshooting tips in mind:
In particular, the invaluable boxes.py generator rounds finger joint entrances to ease assembly, with the unfortunate side effect of making the joints invisible to the resizing algorithm. The same problem often crops up in patterns downloaded from the usual Free! SVG! Download! sites.
Zooming in absurdly far on the corners can reveal problems invisible to the naked eye:
Bottom line: some shapes require manual intervention to prep them for the automated tool.
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You can also do it manually with a template that you can design yourself.
Example:
slots_template.lbrn2 (4.9 KB)
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