[HN Gopher] Boxes.py - Create boxes and more with a laser cutter
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       Boxes.py - Create boxes and more with a laser cutter
        
       Author : ale42
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2022-09-09 11:56 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | paulhart wrote:
       | Internet Archive version:
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20220809073511/https://festi.inf...
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       | Github.io:
       | https://florianfesti.github.io/boxes/html/generators.html
       | 
       | Also see the Hackaday Project:
       | https://hackaday.io/project/10649-boxespy
        
       | icyfox wrote:
       | I first used a laser cutter ~eight years ago. Our printer's UX
       | relied on sending designs with special colors to an attached usb
       | driver. So you'd make something in Illustrator, open a regular
       | print dialogue, and get out a precisely cut acrylic piece a
       | minute later. It was pretty incredible.
       | 
       | This was back in college so we had a manufacturing lab that was
       | chock full of them. They're a bit harder to find in the wide
       | world - but highly recommend the experience if you can get your
       | hands on one.
        
         | lightedman wrote:
         | Any Chinese K40 Laser Engraver paired with K40 Whisperer works
         | exactly this same way. Red for cutting, blue for engraving,
         | black for raster-sweep printing. This is how I run my setup.
        
       | lightedman wrote:
       | This is neat, but there should be a place to add in the parameter
       | for the thickness of the material being used. I tend to default
       | to 2.5mm hardboard, other people use 3mm or 4mm MDF, so it makes
       | the fitting much better.
       | 
       | EDIT: Oh, it's the second set of parameters halfway down. I feel
       | that should be one of the first things you should have to input.
        
       | Ninjinka wrote:
       | Hug of death?
        
       | Glench wrote:
       | Have to plug my friend's box generator which lets you draw these
       | kinds of projects visually and then tweak/export parameters in
       | real-time to see how the design changes:
       | https://cuttle.xyz/@toby/Closed-Box-with-Finger-Joints-blQZf...
        
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