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paulh-rnd / TabbedBoxMaker

Inkscape tabbed box generator plugin - quickly design complex "finger jointed" boxes
GNU General Public License v2.0
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height limits tab size? #10

Open Sungod3000 opened 7 years ago

Sungod3000 commented 7 years ago

Hi,

awesome plug in especially with the dividers.

Im creating a very flat box atm (400x400x20) so the maximum tab size im allowed without error is 9mm which is fine but larger tabs would reduces cutting time.

Is there a way to go around that or ignore the error?

Cheers

paulh-rnd commented 7 years ago

Haha! Was thinking about something very similar just this morning. In fact I got elbow deep in code before work today to make another update which will be released shortly. I'll take a look at work and see if it's easy to do.

Sungod3000 commented 7 years ago

Great, Ill test as soon as its ready.

paulh-rnd commented 7 years ago

Sorry should have read "after work".

Oh and one more thing to keep in mind when creating a large box that bit me once when I made one: make sure that you don't re-orient any of the panels (eg. to fit to your work piece). If your laser X/Y axes are not perfectly calibrated, you may find that cuts along one axis are very slightly longer than the other, and as a result some joints will either be to tight or too loose. I ruined a bunch of good acrylic because of this...

Sungod3000 commented 7 years ago

Ah good point, that was one of the first thing i did to fit all the parts on the work surfaces. Thanks ill keep that in mind