Making a box with a design

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

If the design is trimmed off to fit, but doesn’t quite work with the trimmed geometry:

It will be necessary to adjust things so that the design is properly nested.

This will be easiest if the box outline is hidden (easily done if on a layer)

Then it becomes easier to identify and adjust the elements which don’t quite work:

Go into Node Edit mode where necessary and cut open closed geometry which one needs to work with:

Select

and then delete the node

Done

Then draw in geometry to close things:

Then select and close:

using Join Vectors:

Repeat for all other elements which don’t work as expected for toolpaths.

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

This also applies to open geometry:

Note that in some instances there is overlapping geometry:

which should be cleaned up:

Where there is open geometry which need to either be merged with, or separated from other geometry:

The most expedient thing to do is to separate it by offsetting to the outside the geometry it should be separated from:

Then using Trim Vectors:

to simplify down to just what is needed to close the region:

OK

Join Vectors

Deselect what one wishes to keep:

and delete to clean up:

Where there is geometry left over from a self intersection:

delete:

Apply the offset here as well:

Add the crossing geometry to the selection:

and use Trim Vectors to clean up:

Until one arrives at:

OK

OK

Join Vectors to close:

Yes

Clean up by removing the surrounding box elements:

and delete

[baricl (Loren Baric)]

Try this link. Takes all the work out of making a box.
Creates a dxf file that you can convert.

https://jeromeleary.com/laser/