dataculturegroup / box-designer-website

Give us dimensions, and we'll generate a PDF you can use to cut a notched box on a laser-cutter.

Box Designer Web App

A simple web front-end to the box designer command line tool for making designs you can laser-cut.

https://boxdesigner.connectionlab.org/

Dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Installation

Make the tmp directory writable by your web user

Running

Just run python server.py and then try it at http://localhost:5000 in your web browser.

If you want to render a box in code, see the test-render.py example.

License

This software is released under the GNU Affero General Public License.

Deploying

This is built to be deployed easily to a containerized host (ie. Heroku-style).

Optional environment variables:

• MATOMO_TRACKER_URL - if you want to use Matomo analytics, fill this in
• MATOMO_SITE_ID - if you want to use Matomo analytics, fill this in

Contributors

Box Designer started as a piece of Java desktop software in April of 2001 while Rahul Bhargava was a student at the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten Group. Since then, as it evolved into a Rails web app, and then a Python web app, others have contributed important pieces:

• @wildsparx on GitHub contributed the DXF output
• @vincentadam87 on GitHub contributed the "no top" option
• eolson [at] mit [dot] edu contributed the original notch length and kerf options
• @kentquirk on GitHub contributed SVG output and made the system generate closed curves in PDF and SVG