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 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!!!!
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.
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.
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.
This is good for being methodical and emphasizing geometric dimensioning and tolerances, but this can all be automated using a script like this boxmaker plugin --> www.keppel.demon.co.uk/111000/111000.html
Very True or boxmaker.rahulbotics.com/! Now, what if you need the geometry other then rectangles, say a hexagon? Sound like we need to write some script to do this automatically.
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
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.
I used Camtasia from Techsmith (www.techsmith.com) to record the video. I also use a Microsoft Surface Pro as a hardware platform for making videos. Here's a link to a video I made on how I record videos on the Surface ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hDzUGKR3zr8.html