Box Maker from download to inkscape to make the cut to zing and a box

Inkscape is wonderful for lots of things and the person from 

Maker ( via Hack a Day) has made this wonderful box extension  for inkscape 

to be able to type in the size of box and thickness of material that 

you are using to be able to generate wonderful slotted boxes.

I told it I wanted a 1 3/4" box and with the click of a button

it gave me a pattern that fitted together wonderfully after 

I took in the Make the Cut (did a fuse and weld  so all lines 

in each piece were joined) then cut using 3mm funfoam.

You will find the extension HERE at Maker

You then download and unzip.

Find where you have your Inkscape folder 

 You find the share folder click on that

 Then the Extensions folder  and click on that then drag 

and drop the Boxmaker.inx and the Boxmaker.py

into that folder.

 

 It is  now ready for you to open inkscape .

Under Extensions

 You will find Laser  and then click on that and to tabbed

box maker and click on that

 and then you will get the box pop up .

NOW I did not know what these things did really so 

I used Maker example  to work out what to do .

 Clicked apply and I got this on my screen

 Then took that too Make the Cut where I found that 

each side of each box was lines not joined so I then 

went to fuse and weld  turned to top tolerance and 

clicked

Then you end up with a cut file all ready to cut

 I Cut mine out of fun foam.  I spent nearly 4 hours trying 

to get the Zing to cut  the fun foam  changing force  with not much 

luck. (but I did get one cut  but was not neatly cut )

THEN I searched the net to find that on the KNK Zing yahoo group

in the Database section Sandy has a wonderful list of settings

used to cut LOTS and lots of things and one of them was fun foam

I wish i had looked there 4 hours earlier as  the settings 

were not what i would have guessed in a million years  

BUT THEY WORKED

HERE is a Fantastic list of settings for all types of materials to cut 

on ZING  

Well worth joining the yahoo list if you have not already