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Create and download custom sized papercraft and packaging templates for free! You don‘t even need to make an account to start using these free printables straight away.

This site offers a practically unlimited amount of templates (also knows as ’dielines‘ or ‘nets’) for paper craft, packaging, package design, learning materials, decoration and much more.

All the models are custom sized. Usually, that includes the length, width and height of an object. Some models also have some angles you can customise or a number of facets.

After entering the right dimensions, you can download the models in a variety of formats. PDF will be most likely be the easiest, so you can start printing, cutting and folding straight away.
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License, legal stuff, copyright

Site design, drawings and templatemaker software are COPYRIGHT by M. H. van der Velde.

All generated templates are COPYRIGHT by M. H. van der Velde 2019 but permission is hereby granted to print and even mass-produce the templates, also commercially, as long as they are used for packaging or educational purposes.

Re-publication in print or any digital medium, including internet, is not allowed!

This basically means: do anything you want with the templates you download from my site, but do not compete directly with my site using my own templates.

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Changelog and Idea Log.

June 2023

Limiting the number of Tiles to 50.

March and April 2023

Create new system for translations, in order to allow visitors of Templatemaker to contribute translations. Try for yourself: https://www.templatemaker.nl/translator/

April 9th, 2023

Updating typography: the Google font "Inter" is now used instead of system fonts, to assure consinstent rendering on all devices.

April 3rd, 2023

Adding the Egg Shape Box template.

February 20th, 2023

Moving away from Cairo again, in favour of the Pydyf-library. Thanks again, courtbouillon.org.
Removing the jig from the circle-box and ellipse-box and adding text to the caps.

January 25th, 2023

Adding a Page Layout option that allow for the pages to be arranged either horizontally or vertically when asking for a SVG.

November 18, 2022

Webpage:

Re-introducing 'gallery' images at the bottom of each page after they had disapeared for months due to a bug. These images should help in constructing object like the Star and the Heart-Shaped Box. Also, they provide extra examples of how the templates can be used.
Adding this 'Changelog'
Adding Swedish translation 🇸🇪

November 17, 2022

Generating drawings:

Removed dependency on Ghostscript library, using Cairo instead. (Thanks, https://cairosvg.org/ and https://www.courtbouillon.org/ )
Re-writing the Tiles-PDF fileformat because the old version was buggy.
Tiles-PDF, PNG, PDF and SVG now all use Cairo.
Adding Templatemaker logo and the logo of the sponsor to SVG-downloads.
Text in all templates is now outlined.

2012 - 2022:

Undocumentend

Frequently Requested Models

The following models have not yet been added to Templatemaker.nl yet, but are frequently requested:

Pizza Box
Postal Box
Popcorn Box
Tall box with telescopic lid
Glueless, shallow box with integrated lid. (Akin to “vattentråg“ from Ingve Kalmar)

Extremely Inspiring Models

Toblerone or polygonal tube package
Caleidocycli
Rotated (gyro) box
Platonic Solids with Length, Width and Height. Hence, elongated.
Torus

Models that should be included:

Polygonal nestable tray

To-do (selection)

Templatemaker is an ever ongoing project. The following features are not yet implemented, but are rather pressing:

Contours to every template for better Cricut-support
~Easier translator to allow for spontaneous translations by visitors of templatemaker.nl (Done!)~
Static downloads for one-off models that do not require custom dimensions
ZIPped 'multi page', SVG, DXF and PNG files: A zipped bundle instead of all islands on one big spread.