Designing a Laser Cut Tabbed Box Using Inkscape

Tutorial on using Inkscape to design a tabbed box that can be cut with a laser cutter

[nickbutler]

I am new to laser cutting and found your tutorial very helpful and 'simply' explained for a newbie such as I.

[rowenpickavance]

Awesome tutorial thank you so much - I assumed this would be so much harder but you've explained it brilliantly! I think the primary aged children I teach will be able to get their teeth into this!

[marcelinoloera]

i appreciate how well explain, make it look so easy 100 percent easy to follow thanks again and God bless you

[sheldonjames]

Thank you! Very nice video. You have helped a lot of people. Keep up the good work!

[phoenixprime]

I wish I knew about the union and difference tools earlier! Thank you so much! I am now able to design a carousel for my grandma for Christmas! Thank you!!!!

[jaybrockman]

Thanks all for comments--I hadn't been back to it for a while and glad to see that it has been helpful (and that people outside of my class at Notre Dame have actually watched it)!

[johnhusband]

Hopefully you are stilt picking comments up and that was an excellent video and very well presented and thank you for sharing.

[davidbutler]

super duper tutorial, wish more people have seen this.

[KillerSpud]

Thanks for the tutorial. I was able to whack together my own generic 5 sided box in about 15 minutes total from a blank sheet in inkscape to gluing the finished parts together using a GlowForge.

[ConstructIcon]

Thank you for this! It has helped me for some projects I'm currently working on!

[AndyGrove]

Thanks for making this. This really helped me get started with laser cutting.

[nickthomas]

Thanks for that mate, how would you cut out holes within the object and measure the distance from the edges.

[tinman]

Thanks for this. I was looking for a tutorial to make a tab and slot joints in Gravit, and couldn't find one, but this looks like a general method applicable to other software as well.

[DwayneG-uhpl]

Excellent video very helpful. I recently bought a CNC plasma cutting table and was considering buying solid works cad, but I think Inkscape might work just fine for now.

[mikeobrien]

Thank you so much for sharing this!! I really appreciate the help!

[jairobrito]

This is a great tutorial! Thanks much.

[mrtuouii_boyy]

6:10 In my prac lab pc, path>union is unioned only when two object selected but not more than 2 why then how you do it ??

[CeresOutpost]

Thanks for this video! I recently purchased a Glowforge and it's hard to find information about generating finger joints. Do you change your grid to accommodate actual thickness of material? For example, I often get "quarter inch plywood" which is actually 0.20" / 5.16mm thick.

[karadanvers]

my box the red one, goes behind the blue box and when i hit difference it deletes the blue box...

[FPVREVIEWS]

that was all great and simple, but don't you need to export it as a DXF for laser cutting?