Flat telescope box
FEFCO 0301
Low lid on a low base. For shirts, prints and documents.
- Example size
- 400 × 300 × 45 mm internal
- Blank
- 973 × 423 mm
- Pieces
- 2 separate blanks
- Board choices
- 12 boards, 0.45 to 7 mm
Free to design and to check in 3D. €2.50 for the PDF, €3.50 for the DXF or SVG.
What this box is, in other words
Cadeauverpakking, schoenen, elektronica, alles waar het openen zelf onderdeel van het product is. Twee losse stukken: een bak en een deksel dat eroverheen schuift.
How it closes. Het deksel schuift over de bak. Hoe dieper het deksel, hoe steviger het geheel en hoe meer karton je gebruikt.
Worth knowing. Deksel en bak hebben verschillende maten nodig, anders klemt het of valt het eraf. Reken op ongeveer een halve millimeter speling per zijde, meer bij dik karton.
Also called
telescope box two piece box lid and base shoebox gift box rigid box hat box presentation box flat gift document
Same construction, different trade. If you came looking for one of those, this is it.
How this one is built
- Telescope box: two trays, lid over base. Both pieces sit on one blank and are die-cut together.
- The lid is 4.5 mm wider internally than the base: 3.0 mm for the base board plus 1.5 mm working clearance.
- Lid height 30 mm over a 45 mm base.
- Both pieces have glued corners.
- WARNING: the lid is 15 mm shorter than the base, so 15 mm of the base wall stays exposed and the box does not close flush. Raise the lid height to at least the base height for a closed box.
Board options
The drawing changes when you change the board: thickness compensation is built into every fold, so a 4 mm C-flute blank is not the same shape as a 0.45 mm carton blank.
- F-flute corrugated (0.8 mm)
- E-flute corrugated (1.5 mm)
- B-flute corrugated (3.0 mm)
- C-flute corrugated (4.0 mm)
- EB double wall (4.5 mm)
- BC double wall (7.0 mm)
- SBS / GC1 board 350 gsm (0.45 mm)
- FBB / GC2 board 400 gsm (0.55 mm)
- Kraft / GD2 board 400 gsm (0.50 mm)
- Greyboard 1.0 mm (rigid)
- Prototype board 1.0 mm
- Prototype board 2.0 mm
Questions about this box
- What is a telescope box?
- FEFCO 0301: two separate pieces, a base and a lid that slides over it. A shoebox is the everyday example. Because the lid covers the base, the strength is doubled everywhere they overlap.
- How much clearance does the lid need?
- About 0.5 mm per side for thin board, more for corrugated. The generator adds this from the board thickness you pick, so the two parts actually fit.
- Is this dieline free?
- Designing it and folding it in 3D are free and need no account. Downloading it is paid: €2.50 for the PDF to print and measure on paper, and €3.50 for a production file - DXF or SVG - because those are the ones that go to a cutting table.
- What is a dieline?
- The flat drawing a box is cut from. It shows where the knife cuts, where the board is creased to fold, and where it is perforated. A die maker turns it into a steel rule die; a plotter or laser cuts it directly. It is also written as "die line" or "die cut template".
- What file format does a die maker need?
- DXF, almost always. Ours is R12 DXF at 1:1 in millimetres with cut, crease, reverse crease and perforation each on their own layer, which is what a cutting table expects. The SVG is the same geometry for Illustrator, Affinity, Inkscape and laser software.
- Can I use it commercially?
- Yes. The files are yours: modify them, print them, make any number of boxes from them. No attribution and no licence fee, ever.
What you can change
6 parameters on the first screen, 7 more behind advanced settings.
- Dimension mode
- Length (L)
- Width (W)
- Base height (H)
- Board caliper (t)
- Lid height