Box joint/dovetail joint template for laser?

[Andy Leviss]

Does anybody have a template, or a trick on how to easily lay out box
or dovetail joints to cut out of ply on the laser? I could of course
hand draw and import into CDR, but there's got to be an easier way?

--Andy

[revel woodard]

how thick is the material? how wide is the joint? what kind of
quantity we talkin? these conditions will dictate how the joint is
made. Box joints are obvi much easier than dovetail. There are a
million different dovetail jigs out there. dovetails are not as given
to mass production as boxjoints. I myself favor the Woodrat for
reasonable fast production of irregular spaced dovetail joints, (as
well as most any other joint).

Have you done dovetails before? I would be quite surprised if you can
make dovetails with a laser at all. If you are able to please let me
know. I think your best bet

The most efficient way to produce a large quantity of box joints is to
'stack' the A side of the material and run it thru a dado, then thru a
router table, etc. depending on the size you could go straight to the
router. You can get your layout by doing a prototype side, and then
scribing from it, that or making the pieces big to begin with, then
staggering and resawing.

[Matt Richardson]

I haven't tried this myself, but you may want to try this application:  http://www.rahulbotics.com/personal-projects/boxmaker/

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[Carol]

My neighbor here in Bushwick is a plastics fabricator. He loves to use
box joints, and tongue-and-groove ones, with his laser cutter to build
boxes and other things. He probably made the template in Corel Draw
(his favorite app!), which could easily be done in Illustrator as
well.

Carol

On Jul 3, 6:09 pm, Andy Leviss <a...@ducksecho.com> wrote:

[Trammell Hudson]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 06:09:35PM -0400, Andy Leviss wrote:
> Does anybody have a template, or a trick on how to easily lay out box

> or dovetail joints to cut out of ply on the laser? [...]

Be sure that you don't copy the Stots Dovetail jig -- it is perhaps
the only woodworking tool that includes a shrinkwrap end user
license agreement "to help fight tool piracy". In the EULA you
agree that you are only licensing the tool from Stots and to use the
tool "in only one shop by the original purchaser only" and that "you
may not allow individuals that did not purchase the original Product
(to) use the Product or any templates produced using the
Product...":

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/23/2218259

http://web.archive.org/web/20030606223250/stots.com/faqs.htm

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Trammell