SVG and DXF files for laser cutters: boxes, joints, puzzles, signs, mechanisms.
A plain finger-jointed open box and a universal lidded box generated by the Boxes.py generator, provided as ready-to-cut SVGs. Good starter templates; make custom sizes at boxes.hackerspace-bamberg.de.
Material: 3mm (generator default)
The repo has about 190 more example SVGs under the same license.
Gift/keepsake box with double walls; the four side walls are one living-hinge piece bent around the corners. Engrave text or designs on the lid.
Material: 1/4 inch (6mm) maple plywood
Zip also includes an Epilog .ecp CAM file and SketchUp source.
A simple glued plywood tool box cut on a laser cutter. Single-sheet SVG layout for 3mm plywood.
Material: 3mm plywood
Plywood boxes that snap together without glue and stack on each other. Single SVG.
Material: plywood, sized for about 3mm
Open-front parts bins in 4-inch and 6-inch widths that stack for shop, office or craft-room organization.
Material: 1/4 inch hardwood plywood
Small snap-fit acrylic enclosure to protect an Arduino XBee module; a good minimal electronics-enclosure starting point.
Material: 3mm acrylic
Snap-together clear acrylic tree that displays 28 pairs of earrings.
Material: clear acrylic
Edge-lit acrylic sign: files for engraving the acrylic panel plus a laser-cut holder for the LED strip. Swap in your own artwork.
Material: acrylic
Several minimalist wall-clock face designs cut from a single sheet, built around a cheap quartz clock movement.
Material: wood or acrylic sheet
Non-commercial license.
Simple interlocking letter/word puzzle pieces made to help a young child sound out longer words; single SVG.
Non-commercial license.
Manipulative that shows the ambiguous case of the law of sines (two possible triangles for a fixed angle and side).
Material: plywood
Student-buildable laser-cut microscope costing roughly $0.40 to $3.50 depending on lens choice, with 3D-printed objective and eyepiece holders.
Material: plywood or acrylic
Fold-up cardboard voussoir bricks; cut nine and students can assemble a self-supporting Roman arch.
Material: 3mm cardboard; sized for an 18x24 inch bed
Laser-cut and engraved folding sundial (the traditional farmer's clock) for finding local solar time.
Material: cardboard, wood, acrylic or MDF
Hinged laser-cut piece divided into 15-degree segments that unrolls from a unit circle into a sine curve, for trig classes.
Material: 5mm plywood
Pieces that interlock on all four sides, so a single tile can be copied to build structures bigger than the laser bed.
A sample set of living-hinge (lattice/kerf-bend) patterns, plus the straight pattern at a range of spacings, so you can test which flexes best in your material.
Material: try 3mm plywood
Zip holds about 30 individual pattern DXFs (diamond, hex, wave, geodesic, straight at several spacings).
Simple working model of Leonardo da Vinci's cam-driven hammer for students to identify the simple machines inside it.
Material: 6mm plywood, 5/16 inch dowel
Functional rubber-band-driven model of Galileo's pendulum clock escapement, for teaching gears, stored energy and escapements.
Material: plywood
Hands-on model of the Geneva drive (intermittent rotary motion), built as a classroom teaching tool.
Material: plywood
A simple multi-gear train cut from 9mm MDF and glued up; single SVG drawing.
Material: 9mm MDF, 600x300mm sheet
Non-commercial license.
Wall clock whose hands are driven through a laser-cut planetary gearbox by a stepper motor and Arduino. DXFs for sun, planet and ring gears, carrier, hands and plates.
Material: plywood or MDF
Files in order: sun gear, planet gear, ring gear, carrier back, clock back, clock front, hour hand, minute hand. Non-commercial license.
Tabletop dice tower with internal ramps and a catching tray that doubles as a lid; generated by Boxes.py.
Material: 3mm (generator default)
Laser-cut gorilla puppet with a servo-driven arm and touch sensor, designed for beginner Arduino workshops.
Simple beginner weekend-project jigsaw puzzle with the cut file in EPS and AI.
Non-commercial license.
Classroom tutorial on designing a jigsaw puzzle for laser or CNC, with a generic puzzle-piece template SVG and an example sliced design.
Non-commercial license.
All symbols for a full 144-tile Mahjong set, fronts and backs, laid out to fit one 450 x 800 mm sheet.
Material: 6mm birch plywood
Vector PDF plus DWG source.
Slot-together 3D dinosaur skeleton model in 29 pieces, supplied as per-piece DXF files.
Zip contains 29 DXFs plus STL and SolidWorks source.
A jig for holding stock at an angle inside a laser cutter so edges can be cut at a bevel, plus a stepped drill-bit stand.
Material: 3mm (generator default)
Test plate that engraves a grid of speed/power combinations so you can see how settings affect engraving in a given material.
Material: any (test plate)
Open-top organizer that holds CNC cutters upright so you can see and pick them, with a side compartment for misc tools.
Material: 5mm MDF