The simple answer is: You can’t. (unless you scale it down to be only 20" long)
However, you could come close if you figure out a way to split it up into pieces you can cut in your Basic. It would take a little re-design though. For example, you’d need to run a support up the middle, I’d think.
It’s made from 1/2" stock…maybe if you used 4 layers of 1/8" stock, each of them pieced together in different locations and then glued together, you could produce large pieces that would be strong enough to be functional. Seems like a lot of work, though!
I wonder if a living hinge could even work like that though. Aweful thick! 
With wider cuts, I guess. But I don’t think I’d want to sit on it wearing shorts!
Thanks for the input so far…I guess more specifically, I was thinking about the length of the legs in this one in particular. Can you make a cut so you only make half of the leg at a time and then somehow join them together to make a solid full leg? What about doing this on thin stock to utilize this as a template to cut think stock with a router? I actually had not even thought about the thickness of the frame yet and would assume the living hinge would remain the thinner wood. I hope I am making sense with my ramblings and assume once I get the GF I will figure some of this out with trial and error.
This is a project for the Maslow CNC that I haven’t gotten around to putting together.
Thanks for the find!
Once you decide on your approach, you could get a very good idea on how well it will work by prototyping in cardboard. Some cardboard things I’ve seen have been very sturdy.
I’ve made large things in my laser-cutter in the past. Look up some of my projects on this forum, and you’ll see some large items.
These thread in particular talks about an arcade cabinet I made.
It’s all about using thinner material and gluing up layers to make larger items. I’m not sure how sturdy a chair would be. My arcade cabinet, and the art pieces I make feel pretty sturdy, but they are not structural. I’ve never tried to sit on them.
Essentially, you want to take the part you want to make, and break it up into pieces that fit on the GF bed. You then do that again, but break it up at different places. Try and keep the break points as far from the first break points as possible. Then you glue those 2 layers together. Then you do it again for a 3rd and/or 4th layer. If your break points are at different places, it should be pretty sturdy.
For the arcade, I also cut registration holes. So that I could line up all the parts while I’m gluing them. Typically, I use 1/4" registration holes, and slide 1/4" dowels through the parts to line them up.
I’ve never tried to do a living hinge in this fashion (like the one on the Alex Chair you linked). But I imagine it’s possible.
The fact that it’s 1/2" birch plywood means you have four 1/8" layers to work with. You can put your seems in many different places.
It would be an interesting project.
Let me know if you need me to clarify any of the steps I take. I love making big projects from small parts!
First anything is possible within the limitations of your tools that require some creativity from your end.
With that said the chair you linked was cut on a CNC router not a laser. Knowing that your best bet is to create templates to use with a router. I have split shapes using a dovetail that I can then glue back together and use as is or then glue that to another substrate to make the template more rugged and durable if needed to make many parts. You should even be able to recreate the hinge with a repeating pattern. It wouldn’t be easy or perfect results without some failures at first but it’s definitely doable.
It all depends on the ROI of your time depending on what other tools you have available. I over used and abused my scroll saw for large projects until I got a bandsaw, also abused circular saw then job site and now hybrid tablesaw, I got the GF to help me make small items faster and more consistently than my other tools can.
So I although you can create or manipulate files to be cut out of thinner material which you can then glue back together. I would recommend against it as you’re never going to get the same material strength as starting with a single sheet of 1/2"ply. I however do think that for a project like the chair you could manipulate the files to cut template parts that could be then glued to make a master pattern and allow you to crank out a few chairs way faster than cutting multiple layers with different unions to make one chair part.
I have just started to use the Inkscape app GF recommended and have not got the hang of it yet. Is there a simple way of adding the dovetail break in larger pieces to create the smaller sections of templates to then use a router to do the final shape on thicker stock? So far, I haven’t seen a way to put a break in the existing lines to allow me to separate them and create two separate objects.
Thanks.
I’m sure there are several ways to do it but none of them are particularly simple.
One example:
I took a box and converted it to a path. (Path-Object to Path)
You could try all of this with a simple line if you wish.
With the node tool (F2) place node(s) at the break points.
Select both nodes with the node tool and hit “Break path at selected node”
I then selected the shape and hit Path-Break Apart.
You now have two shapes.
Inkscape is an Art. It’s pretty easy to screw up lines and especially curves by adding and moving nodes. Takes lots of practice.
There are other ways to slice a rectangle with other shapes and using the boolean operations. Might be a simpler method for what I think you want to do.
Awesome…thanks for the help…this looks more like what I am used to from Reconstruction software I have used previously and make sense to me…I would have just spent for ever finding out the terminology and location of everything. I probably should just look for some tutorial videos for Inkscape to learn it. I appreciate the assistance!
Figured out an easier way. Like I said there are many ways.
Take the box and place a line at the cut point.
Highlight both the rectangle and the line. Select Path-Cut Path
and you’ll have two objects that can be separated.
It works for a simple shape and ungrouped objects. Won’t work for objects made up of lots of combined lines or images.
That does appear to be easier…To create the match point to put the template together later, do you just create a dovetail shape connecting the two break points and then copy and invert it for the other side to create your joint?
My brain is running fuzzy this morning. I tend to hand draw a lot of stuff in Inkscape. Drawing lines, connecting nodes, moving, etc. I do know that it’s difficult to get precise joint alignment and sizing. The laser kerf is material dependent. I get tight or sloppy joints all the time. Eventually figure it out, then a month passes and I forget and have to relearn again.
ditto ^^^
John 
Lots of videos out there on how to use Inkscape. You should also check out the Tips and Tricks section of this forum - the posts with Inkscape in the title.
I think this may be what you’re looking for. There are lots of ways to do the same thing in Inkscape. I’ll use the simplest (and often slowest) method here. I started by using the Create Rectangles and Square tool to draw two boxes. I then turned each into a path using Path → Object to Path.
I then used the Edit Paths by Nodes pointer to select one of the nodes and changed its X coordinate from 4.45 to 4.35.
I did the same thing to the other top node so I now have a trapezoid, or dovetail. I then moved it so the top of the dovetail aligned with the top of the large box. I then went to Edit → Copy and then Edit → Paste in Place.
There are now two dovetails, one over the other. Change the X coordinate in the tool bar by adding 1.5 inches to it.
Do this for each dovetail you want to add. When you’re done use the Edit Paths by Nodes pointer to select the line segment of the large box and click the Delete Segment Between Two non-Endpoint Nodes.
Do the same thing for the top segment of each dovetail.
Now join them together. Select a node and the press and hold the Shift key and click on a second node. Let go of the Shift key and click the Join Selected Endnodes With a new Segment button.
Continue with the rest of your nodes and I conclude my very basic primer on working with nodes in Inkscape. I hope this is what you were looking for.
@caribis2 and @rpegg, would you consider collaborating on a combination of that and turning it into a tutorial in the Tutorials section? The threads there are Wikis…you could combine all the goodies into one “How To” that would wind up being really popular I think. 
And it’s easy to just edit those and do a CTRL+A, CTRL+C to copy the whole thing and paste it into the new thread.
Thanks…makes great sense to me. Just need to learn the terminology and icons in Inkscape, but this certainly puts me on the right track. I appreciate the help.
