Just fooling around with the elliptical box plug-in on Inkscape. (Couple of parts for boxes and a selection of optional lids.)
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Elliptical Box multi.zip (43.7 KB)
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So cool! This is motivating me to try out Inkscape
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Very cute, thanks! Is it intended for a certain thickness of wood?
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I think this is one that will work either way - I was planning to experiment on 3 mm ply. 
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Love that you rotated the lid 180 degrees, that allowed the colors to flip giving it a nice contrast with the rest of the box.
How did you get that alternating light/dark pattern?
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Oh, that’s not mine…I don’t have a laser yet…that’s the shot from the Instructables link that tells you how to use the plugin. 
(The light/dark effect is just a trick of the eye…caused by an extra slice in the center of some of the squares.)
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These are great boxes. Thanks for sharing the tutorial! I mainly use Illustrator but started with Inkscape early on. It is really cool to see such an amazing plugin like this.
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