Box Design Software

[Joe Peacock]

I seem to remember that somewhere on the forums I saw a box designing software program. You put in the final dimensions of the box and you got a file that you could open and cut with your laser. Does anyone know what I am talking about?
Thanks,
Joe Peacock

[Doug Griffith]

This just came up:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=44442

[George Brown]

That link (instituteofthefuture.org) does not exist any more. I downloaded this a while ago, did not use it yet. Might be what you want.

[Doug Griffith]

The link at the bottom of the thread still works:
http://rahulbotics.com/personal-projects/boxmaker/?boxmaker/

[paul mott]

Excellent little program it is. These are some of the little boxes I have made.

http://www.cooperman.talktalk.net/files/27_files/image744.jpg

Paul

[Joe Peacock]

Thank you very much to those who responded, the links give are what I needed.
Joe

[Harper Abbot]

this is a cool little program, but when I import the design into Corel X3 and laser, it jumps all around vectoring little parts of each panel. I tried welding, grouping... I'd like it to just trace around each panel one at a time.

Any tricks?

[Lee DeRaud]

this is a cool little program, but when I import the design into Corel X3 and laser, it jumps all around vectoring little parts of each panel. I tried welding, grouping... I'd like it to just trace around each panel one at a time.

Any tricks?Easiest way is to use 'smart-fill' on each panel and then delete the original vectors.
And if you're using a ULS machine, shut off vector optimization: the path order it selects may be optimal (although I doubt it), but it's very...odd. Yeah, odd, that's the word I'm looking for. :eek: