The living hinge box was used to hold my engagement ring for my proposal.
Living hinge box generator.
In this guide i m going to give you an overview of living hinges that will allow you to make bends and springs in a single piece of rigid material.
In addition you can also design other objects such as shelves drawer inserts or living hinge patterns.
Integratedhingebox box with lid and integraded hinge.
To give you an idea about what it can do.
Makercase generates box designs for laser cutters and cnc routers and outputs svg and dxf files ready for cutting.
Rack10box closed box with screw on top for mounting in a 10 rack.
From the wikipedia a living hinge is a thin flexible hinge flexure bearing made from the same material as the two rigid pieces it connects rather than cloth leather or some other flexible substance.
Box with living hinge and round corners.
Width of the fingers.
I have a particular interest in discovering new ways to push the limits of material fabrication with my laser cutter.
Notesholder box for holding a stack of paper coasters etc.
It also has new parameters to control the style of the box.
Inkscape plug in that generates drawings for an elliptical box which can be made using a laser cutter.
Hingebox box with lid attached by cabinet hinges.
This script will generate the two part flex box it has all the living hinge parameters described in the previous step.
Openbox box with top and front open.
It is typically thinned or cut to allow the rigid pieces to bend along the line of the hinge.
Extra space to allow finger move in and out.
Space below holes of fingerholeedge.
Living hinge is used quite often in the wood laser cutting project where.
These are fairly self explanatory it calculates the box size based on the internall mm value.
Wood and acrylic are particularly amenable to this technique and the result has an artistic aspect that s pretty cool as well.
Maximum space at the start and end in multiple of normal spaces.
Effect optionparser or optparse has been deprecated and replaced with argparser you must change self optionparser add option to self arg parser add argument.
Settings for finger joints.
Keypad generator for keypads with mechanical switches.
This inkscape plugin is intended to help you create laser cuttable designs.
These boxes are designed to be cut with a laser cutter as they require tight tolerances instead of glue or nails to hold together and complex cuts.
Inkscape is used to render the final svg files giving a robust cross platform generator application.
Boxes py is an open source box generator.
The possibilities with this tool are huge.
It s a fork of the awesome tabbed box maker by elliot white under gplv3.
It comes with a library of all kinds of boxes not just rectangular boxes but also boxes with rounded corners hinges and more.
