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aaasigncom
06-03-2011, 07:51 PM
What happened to the shopbot box maker program that use to exist in the old project wizard area. Couldn't find it through a search. Thank you

jerryk
11-21-2016, 07:37 AM
I would really appreciate someone resurrecting this program. I cannot seem to find it anywhere. I remember using this Bill Young creation. Very useful!

bill.young
11-21-2016, 01:02 PM
The Boxmaker was written in 2002 and unfortunately a bunch of changes to Windows and the vrml library it used for the preview broke it quite a while ago. I've been slowly working on resurrecting it in javascript as a FabMo app, but it's a lot of work and I'm a very poor programmer.

Like most of the things I do though it started life as a parametric ShopBot file, with inputs for the various settings. If I can find that I'll get it posted, but it's been almost 15 years and multiple computers since then. Might even be on a floppy disk...no idea where to find a floppy drive these days!

bryan
11-21-2016, 01:12 PM
I know the following link is for a laser box maker but I've used it with some modifications to create boxes on my Shopbots after pulling in the pdf into ArtCam Pro

http://boxdesigner.connectionlab.org/

myxpykalix
11-21-2016, 02:02 PM
I just used this to make two large horse feed boxes
http://makeabox.io/

here's another
http://www.frag-den-spatz.de/index.php?menue=/boxdesigner/menue.htm&page=/boxdesigner/fingerbox.html