Skip to content

An Inkscape extension to quickly add boxjoints - both genders - for lasercutter prototyping

License

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings

FrankSAURET/Jointure_rapide

 
 

Repository files navigation

jointurerapide

What's this?

It's forked on https://jrainimo.com/build/ work.

This is an Inkscape extension to help rapidly prototype 3D assemblies using a laser cutter, CNC router, waterjet cutter, or similar 2D process.

It can quickly add box tabs to objects.

tabs_demo

Target material size and other mechanical properties are configurable.

thickness_demo

Mating slots can be generating using a path as a guide.

slot_demo

Installation

To install, in Inkscape, go to Edit > Preferences > System and take note of the User extensions folder.

On my machine, it was C:\Users\Jarrett\AppData\Roaming\inkscape\extensions. I had to create the inkscape\extensions folders myself, due to the way I'd installed Inkscape.

Copy the files, jointurerapide.*inx* into that folder, and restart Inkscape.

This extension requires Inkscape 1.0 or newer. There is a legacy version (v0.91 and v0.92 only probably) available in Releases on the sidebar.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests welcome. This is a pretty small side project so I don't expect a whole lot to change, but incremental improvements are rad.

Further Reading

I wrote some more background on this, and also a brief primer on writing Inkscape extensions on my website, here.

About

An Inkscape extension to quickly add boxjoints - both genders - for lasercutter prototyping

Resources

License

Stars

Watchers

Forks

Packages

No packages published

Languages

  • Python 100.0%