Laser cut boxes are pretty cool.  They can be tricky to design however.  “Maker” has taken a lot of the guesswork out of making boxes with a cool Inkscape extenstion.  Its written in Python, so Anool challenged me to add t-slots so that the resulting boxes can be held together with screws instead of glue.

It took me a while to wrap my head around the whole extension business.  It is not pretty, but I finally managed to cobble together the necessary parts to get this working.

USE IT:

1. download code and unzip it into your Inkscape extensions directory.  On my Ubuntu laptop that is /usr/share/inkscape/extensions/.
2. Start or Restart Inkscape.
3. Select T-Slot Box Maker from the Extensions->Laser Tools menu
4. Insert your box measurements and screw measurements (so far only tested with 16mm M3 screws.
5. Click “apply”
6. Remove unwanted or conflicting t-slots with the associated hole
7. Done!  Good luck!