How would you design a box like this with lots of tabs?

[autodesk]

I would like to use inventor 2013 to create boxes as described at Inventables which contains acrylic pieces with tabs on each side that fit together like a puzzle.  So 2 questions, first what technique would work best for creating sketches for each part and making sure they all fit together?  Here is a link to the picture off all the parts: All Parts Picture  and 2) Basically the tabs are a repeating structure, is there a way to programically tell inventor to repeat structure to fit sides? 

Tab Patterns:

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Anything-Using-Acrylic-and-Machine-Sc/?ALLSTEPS

[Xun.Zhang]

Hi,

Thanks for your poster, I did investigation on the issue you've post, and I think iPart could support for the situation, please refer the attachment for the case 1 (M3x10) and case 2 (M3x16), please have a try for the same iPart rule for the case 3 (6mm Sheet stock/ M3x16).

The Tabs listed in the Table node, hopefully it's the one you desired.

[autodesk]

I don't think iParts will allow me to automatically duplicate the design to fit different size parts.  From doing some more reading, it seems like what I need to do is make Sketch Blocks with the patterns.  What do you think?

[NicolasXu]

Hi, 

I'm thinking there might be two approaches matching the requirements, and depend on what level of flexibility you want to have and the real design specification.

•  Multi body technology + sketch block
•  Multi body technology + iFeature

What's your opinion? 

Thanks,