Designing a Laser Cut Tabbed Box Using Inkscape 

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

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!

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

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!!!!

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

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)!

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.

super duper tutorial, wish more people have seen this.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Thank you so much for your clarity!

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

Great tutorial, thanks!

This is a great tutorial! Thanks much.

Excited to try this thanks so much 😊

Well Taught, Sir

Thanks for this video. I have a laser on the way and have been deciding what software I will start using. I think Inkscape will be a good starting point and thanks to your video I am already designing a project. One question - when designing tabbed joints like this, does the laser's kerf cause the tabs to fit the slots loosely? If so, how do you compensate?

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.

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

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

большое спасибо !

Thanks, I learned some new tricks. How do you take into account the kurf so you can pressfit the box?

Hi, great tutorial, thanks for making it, Just wondering what other tool or application is connected to the laser cutter after you save it as PDF file??? I really appreciate if you let me know...Thanks

Trying to figure out how to use the “difference” and it keeps cutting the wrong side out.

Thsnk you

I can't get this to work. Every time I drag the red piece over the blue one the tab goes behind the blue one, then the difference tool erases the blue one. I'm trying to learn Inkscape and nothing bleeping works how it does in everyone's videos. I'm getting so frustrated.

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

HI , VERY NICE TUTORIAL :) can I ask which program did you use to make the toturial thanks

i couldnt fix it but i made a square and it overlapped, and used difference but how you did in the video doesnt work. :(

Very nice video and so useful. (Ctrl+D for copying object directly)

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 ??

HOW DID YOU SET THE WORK PAGE TO HAVE MANY SQUARES?

nice thank you. I do not know how you work in Inchs , give me mm any day :)

Inches? It would be better mm

You forgot to make the top of the box!

so we all just in mr poores class

anybody able to share how to make the lid?

What Laser do you have that uses a PDF file?

You did not make the top cover;)