I'm pretty passionate about laser cutters and in this Instructable I'm going to show you some free and (mostly) easy tools to create boxes of all shapes and sizes. There are a bunch of commercial tools that can be used to create laser cut box plans, but I'm not going to cover them here. However, getting the right box for your requirements is not always easy and often entails lots of post-generation modification, plus how do you choose which tool to use? Are better ones available?
The version that I modified was made by Jay Johnson 2015, J Tech Photonics, Inc.,, or "finger-jointed" boxes are one of the most versatile things you can make with a laser cutter - the possibilities really are endless. You need to extract it to your Inkscape extensions folder (see where it is by looking in your Inkscape system preferences). I have attached my version of this Inkscape plugin. You should send the laser to the Z-height you wish it to operate at before starting the job. I didn't add this line, but it could be an option for future modification, should you wish. Of note, the generated g-code does not send the laser to z zero when starting the job (this took me a little while to discover). I tested this G-Code with UCCNC, and cannot attest to how it works with Mach 3, or any of the other applications. Most of the variables are user-modifiable with the dialog box, however, there were a few setting s behind the scenes that needed changing (for setting the laser power, and the header and footer for the g-code). While there is no Stepcraft distiller for Inkscape, I was able to modify one of the open-source g-code generators for Stepcraft.
There are already several plugins within Inkscape indended on producing vectors for laser cutting, and so I quickly became interested in using it with the Stepcraft. I recently discovered Inkscape when looking at a way of producing SVG files for use in Fusion 360.
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