I needed a tool to do this conversion and couldn’t find one, so I created it. Sharing it here in case you can use it. “Early Beta”, I’ve only used it for the one project. Web version does not upload your files, it converts them in-browser.
Thank you. There is something similar on Maker World for 3d printing but I thought wood would be better. I’ll post the final SVG next time I’m at my PC. I kept the number of tabs really low so it does require a lot of careful glueing. (I also thought wood would be cheaper but I was wrong about that.)
Here is the current version of my SVG for the box in the picture. Warning: I have printed this version, but I have not yet assembled it, so there may be problems I don’t know about. The previous version that I printed & assembled had a few tabs the wrong size I trimmed post-print. Hopefully all corrected in this one.
The only reason it’s on 5 sheets instead of 4 is because I wanted the pattern of the front and right upper & lower parts to line up. If you are willing to break these up and rotate them, you can fit it back to 4.
I’ve been debating moving the bottom rail of the sliding top up a bit more. I was nervous about my 3mm material assumption instead of using inches so I may have given it too much tolerance.
I’m glad you like it, I hope it works for you and helps motivate you to do something new. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or problems.
Now it’s assembled and it went together fine. BUT if I had to do it over I would add a lot more tabs and tighten up all the tolerances and account for kerf. Especially for the sliding rails up top.
