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Robert Rosensteel
11-08-2008, 2:29 PM
Hello all would some kind person go over how to make cut outs for boxes. I guess What I mean is how in Corel 12 do you take a square and than take another square which is smaller for making fingers(joints) so they fit each other. I USED the box tool and made one big box, and then dragged a smaller box on the edge but inside the bigger box. I than used the weld tool but the smaller box disapears .. is there somthing about the curve tool Iam missing?

Skip Weiser
11-08-2008, 4:33 PM
Robert,

This program will do what you want.

http://www.instituteofthefuture.org/boxmaker/

Just a note, I had to enter .003 in the cut width space to make a nice fit. Also, I had to update my Java program for this to work on my pc. If it won't run for you, you may have to do that also.

After you enter in dimensions, the program will generate a file that you can then import into Corel 12

Skip

Tim Bateson
11-08-2008, 5:22 PM
Also Lee DeRaud - member here - has a fantastic Corel macro: http://www.shaddysengraving.com/laser/HTML/fingerbox.html

Richard Rumancik
11-08-2008, 11:01 PM
. . . I USED the box tool and made one big box, and then dragged a smaller box on the edge but inside the bigger box. I than used the weld tool but the smaller box disapears ..


I played around a bit to see if I could figure out why your technique is failing.

If you want to make the part with protruding fingers, you just weld two rectangles together. However, I assume from what you say you are making the part with the cuts into the edge (the notches). You placed the smaller box so it is right on the edge of the large rectangle, but inside. In this case, you don't want to weld them. You need to use the trim command. Try to select the small rectangle, trim, and then the larger rectangle. (Don't check either box for leave original: source/target). Does this do it?