Living Hinge D&D Boxes

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Here’s a couple of links that cover more info on living hinges.:

Living Hinges: An exploration in acrylic and plywood

Last year, after I finished what I could designing the matchbox, I was thinking about another project that would be practical and showcase the laser’s precision. I have this roll stamp case on my desk and while I don’t use stamps too often, the case does make a difference for keeping the stamps from getting messed up. [image] I had several different ideas and iterations, but never came up with a suitable design. I had to wait until I got the material to do this project. Since the case would b…

Beta project - seven (Acrylic Stacking Boxes with Living Hinge)

Next up… stacking boxes. I wanted to make these as storage for my wife who has never met a writing implement she does not like. I only made two for now, but eventually will make more. The goal was to make several shallow boxes that would each hold a reasonable handful of items, would stack on top of each other and ,most importantly, would be “roundy rectangles”. They also had to be cuttable from one sheet of the ⅛” thick acrylic I have. The size was a fairly big constraint, since I wanted th…

JKopel has posted a lot of stuff on living hinges (RHenley linked to another post of his above). He provided this great link:

Lattice Hinge Design — Minimum Bend Radius | DefProc